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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason.  These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career. [/quote]

That is great to hear!  I did not know this.  So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests.  This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.
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Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI. [/quote]

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Glad your child is grounded in reality.  At least they will be bilingual.[/quote]

Trilingual.  You can take two languages at DCI. [/quote]

Oh come on, few kids who take two languages at DCI are going to emerge truly bilingual. We're a bilingual home with a bunch of DCI/feeder families and DCI teenagers living nearby in the past 15 years. We know these families well. When I chat with their teens in one of the target languages (not Spanish), it's clear that they're not fully bilingual, not even close.  They're certainly not trilingual either. As others have pointed out, you can't do true immersion without a large cohort of native speakers in a program.  I'm told that DCI doesn't even run its own immersion summer camps and neither do its feeders.  Sure, language study at DCI is going to be stronger than in DCPS but don't exaggerate. [/quote]

My personal anecdotal experience is not relevant so I won’t share. For informational purposes, DCI does run language camps (I believe they might even be open to the public). They have numerous study abroad programs both on the shorter end and on the longer end (semester to year long). They also offer volunteer opportunities in the target languages and celebrate that, so at least anecdotally they were very popular in my home. I also encourage you to research what the language IB exam process looks like because it is very strong. Finally DCI is not an immersion school the way elementary schools are. But in middle school more advanced kids took social studies and other electives in their target languages which was great. Your mileage may vary but those are the facts. No AP spanish mandarin or French classes though which I always found odd. [/quote]

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