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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in an IB track but has taken a few AP exams at school.[/quote]
+1 not all IB exams are given credit for college, either, even with a 7.

Most of the RMIB students I know took AP exams as well as IB exams to get the college credit, including my DC.  Between IB/AP exams, DC had 58 credits going into college.[/quote]

NP. Great for your kid, and I hope those credits really help, but that is not everyone's case. Posts like yours feed a belief on this site, and among parents generally, that there's a simple formula of AP = college credit. Not always true, and parents and their kids should not make assumptions.

Friend's DD got stellar grades in a ton of AP classes and the top score on all her AP exams and her college (a large VA public, not going to name it) still required her to take a couple of own equivalent STEM classes "so you can learn it the way WE teach it here," fundamentally. The DD and her parents (who were 100 percent calculating on the DD graduating from college a year early with AP credits) were totally surprised by this. It was not about the fantastic student or the specific high school etc., it was about the college wanting to ensure all students were learning certain things in certain ways. I'm NOT dissing the quality of AP, just saying that I would not tell any parent that AP scores will translate into [i]automatically skipping[/i] certain levels of class at every college.

Same applies to IB; don't assume that having successfully taken a course/passed an exam means automatic credit at the college of your choice.

There's a related myth that IB = U.S. colleges won't give credit at all. This is said a lot by anti-IB bashers, by the way. This too is wrong. Many do give credits, some don't, you have to investigate and not assume.

BTW, IB is also not just about humanities "lean" as one PP keeps saying; it's better on writing skills than AP, I think, but students must learn to write well in all subject areas-- including math and sciences. And my Ph.D. STEM field spouse felt IB physics and chemistry was more rounded and thorough and less "teach to the test" than AP as of four or five years ago when DC was in HS. 
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When my now 11th grader (Full IB program) was in 6th grade, the principals of two local feeder schools came to a PTA meeting -- 
They explained - AP teaches you what to thnk and IB teaches you how to think.[/quote]

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