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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern's IBD pass rate average points totals have been a little lower than Banneker's to date, but they're only about to graduate their third class of IBD students, with a dozen students in a cohort.

Enough of this PC silliness. Controlling for race and class alone doesn't get you a high-performing school. In an urban center, bona fide selective admissions combined with decent facilities, strong teaching and leadership,and a diverse student body (with many high SES families of all races involved) gets you a high-performing school.

Yes, DCI will be offering International Baccalaureate Diploma studies, but only IBD lite. IBD studies won't be required at DCI, so they won't have a critical mass of students to offer many Higher Level (1-2 years past AP) classes. Reading the tea leaves,  I predict that their pass total will be in the high 20s for the first five years or so they graduate students.  If you're shooting for the stars in college admissions (Ivies, Little Ivies, Georgetown, Stanford, military academies, Duke etc.) and you're white or Asian, you're going to need a points total of 40+. [/quote]

I'm the PP who's years away. Thank you for posting and explaining the stats. I'm familiar with the AP system from my own education but am learning about IB and watching closely what happens with the various local programs. 
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The other thing to consider is that Eastern and Banneker offer both AP and IB courses.

DCI, on the other hand, will only offer IB. [/quote]

The IB program will amply prepare you for the AP exam. But the IB diploma programme is far, far superior to AP offerings. [/quote]

This is true; many IBD students take both the relevant AP and the IBD exams.  An IBD student can only take up to 3 (of 6) IB subject exams in June of junior year, but can take as many AP exams as they want (and colleges like to see standardized test scores).  IBD is superior to AP offerings in the sense that it's more modern and comprehensive, with the Extended Essay, Community Action and Service requirement, and the Theory of Knowledge class giving students the opportunity to pursue inter-disciplinary work and explore cross-cutting themes in fields of inquiry at the HS level.  This is great prep for college work in the humanities and/or sciences.  But a weak IDP program, like those in DC public schools, isn't a good as a strong AP program.

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