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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your poor children. Making them do AP tests on top of IB exams? That’s insane.[/quote]

No it isn't. In fact, it's standard practice in IB programs around the country where kids are aiming for competitive colleges.

My nieces and nephews in Falls Church have earned IB Diploma at Marshall HS (full IB school, not test-in) where college counselors advise students to apply to competitive colleges with at least a few AP scores, preferably more.

IB Diploma is geared toward admission to universities in Europe, where kids get "conditional offers" in the spring contingent on getting certain exam results in June. In the US, it's risky business apply to competitive colleges without any subject standardized test scores.[/quote]

This was standard when I got an IB HS diploma; that was, admittedly, several centuries ago, but at the time, many colleges didn't recognize IB exams for credit or only gave credit for 7s, not for 6s, and if you could get a 6 on an IB test, you could probably also manage a 5 on the AP.[/quote]

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