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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm interested as well, and so tired of whomever hijacks every IB thread to say it's a ce ap program and not worth the cost. It's not worse than AP, it's different. Lots of elite colleges do not accept either  top AP or top IB scores for credit these days. [b]They do show you took a demanding HS program.[/b] I will not pupil place my kid out of IB HS unless the teacher quality proves dismal. That remains to be seen.[/quote]

You're absolutely right! I was at an event last year where there were HS academic counselors from four high schools including TJ. All of them said the same thing that we were also told by our MS: Colleges want to know whether a student took [i]the most rigorous academic offerings available to him or her[/i]. I heard that phrase several times from different HS representatives and heard it again at two different high schools' curriculum nights when they were talking to rising ninth graders. The point is that kids should take whatever is the most challenging thing on offer to them.  In FCPS, we are unusually lucky that kids can have the [i]option[/i] to switch high schools if their assigned school doesn't have the program they want (AP or IB). But whatever kids take, wherever they take it, colleges are focused on whether the student took the most advanced or demanding courses available. 
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