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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The average worldwide IB score is around 30-33.

The average DCI score is below the worldwide average but some DCI students do beat the average.[/quote]

This.  Ignore the people who want DCI to have averages of high 30’s to 40’s.

I would also add that worldwide, the[b] majority of IB schools are private or accessed by select group[/b].[/quote]

Source?  Fact is, the majority of IB schools are public schools here in the US, not abroad, not private, not exactly accessed by "select group."  What happens is that public IBD programs in this country are generally school-within-a-school programs catering to self-selecting advanced students, vs. to average students like at DCI.  If you doubt this, look around in the DC burbs.  IBD programs in this Metro area, like the nearest one in, at Washington-Liberty in Arlington, require pre-IBD students to have earned high grades to qualify to take Diploma classes in 11th and 12th grades.  DCI's seems to have no standards for entry to IBD classes.  It's IB for All.  That's the problem, not DCI is a public school, or a DC school, or fairly new. [/quote]

You must have a reading comprehension issue.  Worldwide, the majority of IBD schools are private as can be seen by the link below.  I also said that it can only be assessed by a select few which means few who can afford it with private or few because it is test in.  What don’t you understand by select few here??

Sure DCI can easily have higher averages if it was a test in.  My point is that it is not.  Yet you want to talk about how DCI’s averages are not in the the high 30’s and low 40’s when even most private schools don’t have that and no IB school in the DMV either.  You clearly don’t have perspective with your argument and comparison.

The IB average is 32.  DCI is close to that and for a school that takes all, is doing a really good job.  That is why the kids are being noticed and getting into some top schools.  They stand out with IB diploma, language, and going to a diverse school that takes all.

Getting into a top school now is a crapshot and luck.  Too many overqualified kids.  As someone pointed out earlier, you have a much better shot of standing out at DCI with IB because most kids do AP.  You also stand out for going to a diverse public charter school and not some homogenous private or test in school.

https://ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/about-the-ib/pdfs/final-statistical-bulletin-dp-cp-may-2022.pdf[/quote]

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