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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, a third generation legacy with a 1560 SAT and a weighted 4.3, science olympiad, 6 IB classes, etc. was deferred.[/quote]

I hope this is a troll because it would be depressing for DC in RD if not![/quote]

If your DC is in an IB school, you know that the number of IB courses isn't the same as getting the [b]full diploma or having HLs[/b] in hard subjects. You could have 6 IB courses that are all standard level. That would not be an especially competitive curriculum.[/quote]

If colleges think like you do, they definitely know little about IB. SL classes can be very rigorous, and at schools where there is no AP but only IB, there is a lot of incentive to ensure those SL courses are tough. They become the "most rigorous classes offered by your high school."

The IB diploma actually does allow three HL and three SL classes to achieve the full diploma.

Not here to start the old AP-IB debate, just noting that IB students not going for the full diploma can and do take both SL and HL courses a la carte just like the way other students take AP courses. I think you haven't seen the difference between IB SL and regular "honors" classes.
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I didn't say SL wasn't rigorous, but that 6 SLs wouldn't be competitive at a school like UVA.

The college know the difference between SL and HL. [/quote]

+1  For our IB high school, students who get into UVA or W&M generally either do the full IB diploma or close to it.  For UVA there are students whose SAT scores vary, but virtually no students who have a weighted GPA below 4.2 and most above 4.4.  (For W&M, there's more of a balance of GPA and SAT, though the average is still around 4.3 GPA and 1400 SAT). Taking some HLs matter as do taking the more serious IB courses (e.g., for Science--Chemistry, Physics or Biology; for social sciences/humanities: History of the Americas, Topics, Literature or Language & Literature, and higher level foreign language courses) at SL or HL.  [/quote]

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