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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the PP that going the IB route is not for the faint of heart. However, at a lot of schools which have the IB program, the faculty [u]strongly[/u] encourages all kids to sign up for it and talks it up so much to the parents that some kids who have no business being in the IB program start it and fail miserably. A friend of one of my DS's was an average student, but his parents encouraged him to go IB; he ended up with D's in most of the courses and wasn't even eligible to play the sport he loved for a full year because of his grades. I know the teachers talk up the program a lot so that they can keep the IB program at the school, but they need to be a little more forthcoming about it all.

Certainly you want to encourage all children to be challenged, but the bottom line is that IB is not for everyone. Neither of my children would have done well in the program; they have taken AP classes instead and done quite well. The oldest was accepted to 4 of the 5 universities he applied to, so we feel that AP was definitely the best choice for him. I also wish the schools would be more honest about the IB program and not lead people to believe that it will make a huge difference in college acceptances. The kids I know at our school who have gotten the IB diploma have, for the most part, ended up at the same schools as the kids who took AP classes.

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