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Some school districts that adopt IB didn't have AP previously, so it may be an improvement over their prior course offerings. If IB is the most challenging program available at a school, that's what admissions officers will want to see students take.

If IB gave students a leg up over AP, however, you'd see more affluent parents demanding it in their schools. But it doesn't, and they don't.  In FCPS, the top schools - TJ, Langley, McLean, Madison, Woodson and Oakton - are all IB.  Highly-ranked Lake Braddock and West Springfield are also IB.  When FCPS redistricted parents from Madison and Oakton, AP schools, to South Lakes, an IB school, a few years ago, the parents were furious and quite a few sold their homes and moved to avoid IB. But when FCPS redistricted students from Annandale, an IB school, to Lake Braddock and Woodson, both AP schools, most parents were pleased, and any opposition was muted.  In MCPS, the top schools - Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, Walter Johnson and Poolesville - are all AP as well.

Those are more telling statistics than an anecdote or two from an individual parent, as it reflects the collective preferences of the region's most affluent, best-educated parents.  Those parents generally pay the most attention to their children's education and college admissions.  When parents at TJ, Langley and Whitman start to demand IB, that might demonstrate that IB is an equally good or better option.  That simply has not happened.  For now, AP remains the preferred option, because of its greater flexibility and more substantive content, compared to IB's one-size-fits-all, essay-heavy approach.

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Top schools in FCPS are all AP. [/quote]

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