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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two of my kids did IB Diploma - one got a full ride and the second got a full tuition. It's a nice program if your kid can keep up. [/quote]

A friend's child did it and then went to Stanford. In FCPS, it's a nice path for the kids coming out of the competitive AAP MS Centers. The problem is parents whose kids can't keep up or don't want to. When the counter argument boils down to, it's too stressful/too hard for American kids, that's just sad.  Some kids want or need the challenge. And as has been shown in these threads at length, acceptance rates at highly selective colleges are higher for IB diploma candidates than for AP candidates. If your kid doesn't want that, fine. But lots of kids do.  And lots of IB diploma kids are going Ivy, or highly selective with significant merit aid. [/quote]

The vast majority of the kids coming out of the more highly regarded MS centers go on to TJ, Langley, McLean, Oakton, Chantilly, Westfield, Madison, Woodson, Lake Braddock, West Springfield, Herndon and Centreville, not IB schools. Kids at those schools also do much better with college admissions than kids coming out of the IB schools, where students on average perform much worse on standardized tests.

The only statistics suggesting diploma candidates at IB schools had an advantage with admissions were statistics comparing students from IB schools with kids graduating from all schools, including those that have neither AP nor IB.

IB has been an abject failure in FCPS.  It would have been jettisoned years ago if FCPS were capable of admitting mistakes, but it is not. On the other hand, none of the newer schools (Centreville, Westfield and South County) got saddled with IB, and there are no PTAs at any AP school asking for AP to be swapped for IB.

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