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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI has a stronger math track. If your kid is an elite math student, dci is a better fit. You can take AP pre-Calc as a freshman, AP calc as a sophomore, and then go into HL IB math as a junior and senior.

The language element of dci is head and shoulders better than walls.

If your kid is good at stem stuff and speaks a bunch of languages, DCI is a better choice. That said most people won’t fit into that bucket.

Also admissions at walls get weaker each year. I would rather my kid be around motivated kids in the IB track than kids who managed good grades at some mediocre dcps. I find the lack of standardized testing really worrisome for Wall’s future.

Either way you can’t go wrong. [/quote]

I do not think DCI has a stronger math track.  Kids at Walls can take AP precalc freshmen year as well.[/quote]

Here is the difference.

DCI does a great job of only letting kids in the higher and highest math track in who can handle it.  Objective standardized test scores cut off and grades besides teacher recommendations. Everyone else in the standard track.

Where walls it’s the opposite.  There is no objective data to take math courses just like there is no objective data for admissions.

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Do you have kids at both schools?  Because the AP math scores at Walls are good.  I just am not sure how you are making the delineation that kids in those classes aren’t prepared.[/quote]

Also IB is far more rigorous than AP. [/quote]

+1.  This is well known because the IB diploma is actually a curriculum requiring certain higher level courses and getting high grades to even earn the IB diploma.  Some kids try for the diploma and don’t get it.  It also requires extensive writing and a mini-thesis.

AP is just that.  Courses in AP and kid can take whatever they want.  Weak in math.  No problem, don’t take AP math.  This is not so with IB.  You have to take certain classes and score high above a certain grade.  If you don’t, you are done.  No diploma.
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Look at overseas colleges. They all automatically accept IB diplomas. Not true of AP. [/quote]

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