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[quote=Anonymous]For APs vs. IB at RM, frankly, the APs were a breeze and most of my IB classmates barely had to study for them, which is why most of us took so many.

Also agreed it was not cutthroat, we collaborated all the time to get HW done — it would have been impossible otherwise. Also a general misery loves company feeling, which resulted in strong camaraderie.

As for the non-IB drugs/alcohol/violence, generally the IB group stayed out, there was a bit of mixing with drugs (just weed)/alcohol by junior and senior year, especially with those on JV/Varsity sports, but it wasn’t a ton, and the kids who were smoking weed still had really stellar grades and seemed a bit bored because they were so far ahead of the rest of us. Didn’t really impact our every day, and frankly I look back and am grateful not to have been so sheltered.

Class is made up of a ton of immigrant children, most of the immigrants have MD/PhDs themselves, so it’s definitely a self selecting high-achieving bunch.

I would say 30% of the original 100 ended up going to a top 20-30 school. A number of kids with perfect standardized test scores, or very close to perfect.

Coming out of RMIB gave me a huge amount of confidence in college, and would highly recommend only if your child is ready to work really hard during HS. [/quote]

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