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that's interesting. Heard the opposite: that college is a cakewalk after magnet IB.[/quote]

The IB diploma program is exactly the same whether you're doing it in a magnet IB school or a home-school IB school.[/quote]
To get the IB diploma, yes, the criteria is the same.

However, RMIB magnet workload is a lot more and harder than other IB programs.  It's pretty well known in the IB world that RMIB magnet is pretty intense. DC in RMIB told me that a new person joined IB magnet from a private school that had IB, and this person said that RMIB is a lot harder than what they experienced in their private school. Coursework is not the same for all IB program.

So, no, not all of the IB programs are the same, not that it makes a difference in getting the IB diploma.  Even so, RMIB diploma rate is a lot higher than any of the IB programs in MCPS, if not nationally.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/791d9e3ecf514dffa7e5f8b8cffd2a27/5451_23_rmhs-profile-insert.pdf?usp=sharing[/quote]

The coursework for the IB diploma programme is the same everywhere. Same classes. Same requirements.

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/[/quote]

The PP that started compared college to "Magnet IB."  That is a different thing than the IB diploma programme.  In particular, two years of coursework v. four.

And just because there are the same classes, it does not mean the rigor is the same.[/quote]

It's not just the same classes. It's the same work.[/quote]

Honest question. Then how come other schools' IB programs don't produce as many NMSF as RM/IB? [/quote]

DP. Same curriculum, different cohort.[/quote]
Not exactly the same curriculum, otherwise, they wouldn't have ~1000 kids applying every year.[/quote]

The IB classes have the same curriculum whether they're at RM or Kennedy or BCC. They have a different cohort of students and different teachers.[/quote]

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