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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Then fine - whatever works!  But most DP kids LOVE the program. They love learning.  They embrace the challenges.

So even if the love of learning is absent, then focus on the obligation.  Are you telling me that you have the privilege of telling your boss that -  "eh - not finishing this project b/c I'm simply not feeling it" - ????

Academic stamina carries into college and follows you into the workforce.

sorry - not buying into these crappy excuses

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