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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And you would know this how? From your work as an admissions director at which college? [/quote]

Know this from experience with college friends of my children.  Most colleges give less credit for IB --check it out.  IB classes are frequently two years.[/quote]

I don't know if that is still true today--it very well could be. But that is why parents fought plans to implement IB at two local schools, WT Woodson and W-L (Arlington), in the 90s. Woodson briefly became an IB-only school before going back to an AP-only curriculum. For W-L the school board compromised, agreeing to keep and grow the existing AP program in addition to a creating a new admissions based IB diploma program. [/quote]

Many colleges these days do not award credit for either AP or IB, but instead they allow those courses to serve as prerequisites allowing the student to place into a higher course. 
However, for many specialized programs, such as pre med or engineering programs, the required courses must be taken at the college, completely negating the AP or IB courses previously taken in HS. [/quote]

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