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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RM-IB's Class of 2013 did very well in the college admissions process if judging by the overall acceptances at each of the Ivies, top SLACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, etc.), top Elites (Stanford, MIT, Duke, etc.), and the number of merit scholarship awarded.  In fact, at least 4 students are headed to Yale in the fall, and at least one student is headed to every other top 10 ranked school -- and those who aren't, are headed to UMD/UMBC or the private (JHU, WUSTL, NYU, etc.) or public school (UVA, Pitt., Wm. & Mary, etc.) to which they received a full or substantial scholarship.   [/quote]

This sounds like Blair, down to 4 students headed to Yale next fall.[/quote]

Does Blair have an IB program?  If not, what's your point? [/quote]

The point goes directly to OP's question about whether IB is somehow favored in college admissions. RM's admissions results are great - but so are admissions results from local non-IB programs.

Sorry if this rains on your parade, RM IB mom. That must explain the snippiness.[/quote]

No snippiness at all -- I'd never heard that Blair (unlike B-CC and a few other MCPS) had an IB program (hence, my question) but I have no reason to doubt that RM-IB's college admission results are comparable to several other MCPS schools without IB programs -- although, I gather from your post that Blair's program is on the decline since it's now "[b]down[/b] to 4 students . . ."   :roll: [/quote]

I'm new to this aspect of the discussion (I posted at the very beginning of this thread about the certificate option)

The question is how do students in IB programs do in college admissions compared to students who are not IB programs.  Someone posted that the outcomes for students at RM, an admissions only IB program in MCPS, are excellent.  Somebody else made the point that the outcomes from students at the Blair magnet, a similarly selective program in the same county that includes AP classes rather than IB are similarly excellent.  I think this supports the case that for top students who take the most rigorous program available to them, the outcomes are similar whether they choose an IB or AP path.

[b]I would also assume that "down to" means that the details of admissions are very very similar even to the specific degree that both schools have 4 students headed to Yale, which seems quite a coincidence.  It's a pretty common expression, and doesn't actually mean that the admissions to Yale have come down.[/quote][/b]

PP you're right -- that is a fair, perhaps fairer, reading of Momma/Papa Blair's post.  I probably misread it because the chime-in didn't seem to be making any point regarding how RM in particular, or IB students in general, fared in the college admissions process.  My bad.[/quote]

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