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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the real value of completing the IB diploma for the senior who has already gotten into college, if the student doesn’t care about trying to get college credit? I can imagine an advantage to the school and program, but what benefit does the kid going to HYPS get? Imagine a responsible kid who has followed through on lots of things and long term goals in his life, so the abstract benefit of completing something is not so important.[/quote]

There's something known as the "love of learning" that appears to be lost on you.

I'm sorry if following through is a foreign concept to you as well.

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DP.

One can passionately love learning without finishing a program of study. I left my doctoral program because at that particular time,[b] I had to choose between producing my dissertation or a second child. I went for the second child and have never regretted it.[/b] My love of learning didn’t evaporate or diminish. I’ve continued taking courses and attending seminars. I spend a lot of my free time and disposable income on learning. I just didn’t finish that formal program of study.

I can see a smart senior making a rational decision to reduce their workload by one paper or one exam in order to savor being 17 or 18 in spring. A friend had DDs go through both Blair’s CAP and RIMB. They said they didn’t enjoy senior rites of passage because of the pressure.[/quote]

Most, if not all, of IB kids are not worried about having a child in HS. The significance of IB diploma is not whether you get college credit or not. For IB kids - regardless which HS IB program you attend - it means you "finished" something you started 4 years ago. While it may not matter to some, it means a LOT to others. All those countless sleepless nights and weekends, it's finally done and they've done it. Then again, if you don't get it, you don't get it.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP you're addressing, and I do get it, but it's not love of learning. It's love of completion, or love of certification, or love of external validation, or something.[/quote]

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