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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What school did you xfer from to go to Robinson?[/quote]

Well, it's not official yet - we're still waiting on paperwork from the school - but from Chantilly HS.  Also a great school.  It was a tough call.

A few other notes to add as I'm reading this thread:

* The IB information nights are over for this year - they do them every year at (I think) every IB school.  Robinson posts their presentation on their website and it's up all year - in case you don't want to wait until next year.  We started looking for info. when DD was in 7th grade and I found the info posted on Robinson's website to be very informative.

* Note that when you do a curricular transfer to IB, you sign papwerwork committing your child to take a certain number of IB courses (some at the higher level) - just an FYI.  They don't have to do the full diploma, but they do have to commit to some IB coursework (which makes sense, since that's why you're transferring!)

* I was interested in the PP's thoughts on why it wasn't worth it to transfer if you weren't pursuing the full diploma.  I did talk to a few people about this - whether it was worth transferring or not - and was generally told it wasn't worthwhile unless you were at least considering the full diploma (but it was a pros/cons of transferring consideration - not that students that only took IB courses a-la-carte were at a disadvantage vs. kids who took AP courses a-la-carte.  Mainly I was told that if you are just doing a-la-carte IB courses, just do AP courses a-la-carte.  That the main advantage was in the full diploma.[/quote]

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