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[quote=Anonymous]BCC is not cohorted in 9th and 10th grade, but you can take AP classes in 10th grade.  AP NSL and AP Lang are pretty common in 10th grade. Those 2 classes, together with above grade level math tends to create a loose cohort in core academics.

If a kid has never experienced a magnet or isn't  confident in their own intelligence or tends to try to hide their intelligence, then RM IB might be worth it over an open IB program.  There is something to be said for being in a peer group that are all very intelligent kids with their own interests.

For kids who have been in the magnet program or who have very narrow or broad interests, IB can be a bad fit because it has pretty restrictive rules about what to take to fill the IB degree requirements.

My DC had a deep interest in a specific subject and wouldn't have been able to take as many classes in that area if DC had done IB, so a mix of AP and IB turned out to be a better fit.

As a BCC parent, I can say that the really bright kids find each other, both socially and academically.  There is no cohorting, but they do end up in a lot of the same classes together because many of them are on an above grade level math track, which means that schedule-wise they get thrown together in a lot of non-math classes as well. [/quote]

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