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that's interesting. Heard the opposite: that college is a cakewalk after magnet IB.[/quote]

The IB diploma program is exactly the same whether you're doing it in a magnet IB school or a home-school IB school.[/quote]
To get the IB diploma, yes, the criteria is the same.

However, RMIB magnet workload is a lot more and harder than other IB programs.  It's pretty well known in the IB world that RMIB magnet is pretty intense. DC in RMIB told me that a new person joined IB magnet from a private school that had IB, and this person said that RMIB is a lot harder than what they experienced in their private school. Coursework is not the same for all IB program.

So, no, not all of the IB programs are the same, not that it makes a difference in getting the IB diploma.  Even so, RMIB diploma rate is a lot higher than any of the IB programs in MCPS, if not nationally.

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/contentassets/791d9e3ecf514dffa7e5f8b8cffd2a27/5451_23_rmhs-profile-insert.pdf?usp=sharing[/quote]

The coursework for the IB diploma programme is the same everywhere. Same classes. Same requirements.

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/[/quote]

The PP that started compared college to "Magnet IB."  That is a different thing than the IB diploma programme.  In particular, two years of coursework v. four.

And just because there are the same classes, it does not mean the rigor is the same.[/quote]

It's not just the same classes. It's the same work.[/quote]

But you agree that the magnet IB is not the same thing as the IB diploma programme, correct?[/quote]
DP here. [b]There is no such thing as the magnet IB.[/b] There are magnet students at RM who are in a cohort (100 out of area, ~25 homeschool) in 9th and 10th grades in the MYP program, taking core classes together. In 11th and 12th grade, those ~125 students are in the IBDP and are joined by another ~20-25 students from the regular homeschool MYP students. All 150 students are mixed together in classes, as well as with non IBDP students in certain classes that are open to all.[/quote]

Really not sure how to respond to the bolded.  There absolutely is a magnet IB program at RM.  It is, exactly what you describe in your sentence after the bolded.  That cohort has a different overall experience than those students who join the diploma programme in 11th grade.

PP said that they heard people in that program had an easy time in college.  And you are...denying that there are students in that program?  What exactly is the point you are trying to make?[/quote]

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