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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IB = International Baccalaureate

HL = Higher Level
SL = Standard Level

To get the full IB diploma, you have to take 6 IB courses, and 3 or 4 of them have to be "Higher Level" (plus theory of knowledge, plus the big essay, plus a service project).[/quote]

This is a very important post for people considering IB and very hard to get.  Please make sure your school offers the full compliment of HL science courses, if that is important to your kid.  The challenge we saw with IB was that my kid would have to spend too much time in humanities to meet the HL requirement, and not really get a chance to do all the science he wanted.  This is school specific, so ask.

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My dd is a freshman at an IB school and her projected schedule includes plenty of science and math, and no more humanities than she would take at an AP
school.

It looks like this...
Math:
(8th geometry honors)
9th algebra 2/trig honors
10th IB math SL 1
11th IB math HL 1
12th IB math HL 2

Science: 
9th bio honors
10th IB Chem 1 SL
11th IB physics HL 1 AND IB systems and societies or IB bio HL 1 or IB Chem HL 1
12th IB physics HL 2 AND the second year of any of the above mentioned classes

She will be taking one IB history, IB English, and IB language class her junior and senior year. This is exactly the same amount of humanities that a student would take at an AP school. [/quote]m

Huh. Why this math track?  Ds's projected schedule with 8th grade geometry (according to the school) is Algebra II/ Trig, IB HL math 1, IB HL math 2 & matrix Algebra/multi variable Calc. [/quote]

What school is this? A student who goes straight from alg2/trig to HL math is going to miss a lot of content and likely struggle in HL. In an AP school, a student would take precalc in between alg2/trig and AP calc. In an IB school, the first semester of IB math SL covers precalc before diving into calc. [/quote]

South Lakes math progression for strong math students w/8th grade geometry is Option 4, with the 4th year being multi variable/ matrix algebra. You either take the IB math HL sequence, or the IB math HL sequence, starting after Algebra II. You don't take both. [/quote]

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