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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on the kid and the amount of preparation the kid had leading up to junior year. IB was not a good fit for my kid who has a generalized anxiety disorder. In addition, his education from seventh through 10th grade did not adequately prepare him for the writing and workload of the IB program. He barely had any writing before junior year. Even though he did pre-IB English in 10th grade. I think they wrote something like two papers that were about 2 to 3 pages long in 10th grade. Nothing before that. Then all of a sudden he’s supposed to be able to handle IB? It was really bad for his anxiety. In addition,[b] his college  has not given him credit for any of his IB classes. [/b]

He also took AP classes and those were much better for him- he got fives on the exams and got credit for them.[/quote]
? did he not do well on the HL exams? Credit is not given for the classes, only for the exams, same as APs.  Although, there are some IB exams even with a 7 that are not given any college credit.[/quote]

He got 5s and 6s on all of his IB exams, but they were four SL exams. They would not have given credit for 7s on those exams either. Equivalent APs, they would have given credit for. He did get credit for five APs he took. We wish he had done all APs. [/quote]

For what it's worth, my kid took about a billion APs, got enough credits to graduate from UMD easily in 3 years, and then switched to a different major/career path that will require the full 4 years plus 2 summers. So you never know.[/quote]

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