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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As others have said, IB diploma requires a TON of writing. My child wrote a 4000 word paper for the Extended Essay and an Internal Assessment essay of ~2-3000 words for each 2-yr subject. The IB exams require writing as well. I feel like my kid got a really solid education at our neighborhood school with an IB diploma and they were accepted ED to their first choice college, a highly competitive school that accepted 12% of applicants. However, high school was a slog. I don’t think my kid would redo it if they could. They decided to do the full diploma they were forecasting for 11th grade and realized how close they were to meeting the credit requirements (due to starting high school in Algebra 3-4 and Spanish 3-4; some schools don’t offer higher level classes that aren’t IB. The AP classes that my second child is taking are far less rigorous, require less writing and a lot less critical thinking.

Kids in the IB diploma program this year are attending an impressive array of ivies and top universities, and are very bright kids, but they are tired.[/quote]

Your kid will do "a TON of writing" in college - right? - so your kid might as well get used to it now. I'm pretty sure I did even more than one 3,000 to 5,000 word paper per class in college. The IB experience might make college less stressful.[/quote]

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