Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 17:07     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My crappy school system didn't have anything advanced like IP or AP. But I took the hardest courses available to me and got in.
seems like the answer is to move to a crappy high school and take the hardest courses, graduate 1st in your class


Many do exactly this.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 14:09     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Anonymous wrote:My crappy school system didn't have anything advanced like IP or AP. But I took the hardest courses available to me and got in.


How long ago was this?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:55     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
IB has been introduced in low-performing public schools where enrollment in AP courses was either low or nonexistent, at least in FCPS. To earn an IB diploma, a student only needs a C+ grade in six subjects, only two Ds are allowed. However, MIT may be looking for more than just an IB diploma.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:46     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Anonymous wrote:My crappy school system didn't have anything advanced like IP or AP. But I took the hardest courses available to me and got in.
seems like the answer is to move to a crappy high school and take the hardest courses, graduate 1st in your class
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:32     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
There are a few IBDP kids who end up at MIT. Do they want all of them? No. Do they take some? Yes, just like any other high performing group.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:22     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Anonymous wrote:My crappy school system didn't have anything advanced like IP or AP. But I took the hardest courses available to me and got in.


This is what matters and MIT isn't shy about telling people.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:20     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
My crappy school system didn't have anything advanced like IP or AP. But I took the hardest courses available to me and got in.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:14     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
I am a MIT alumnae and had an IB diploma. My diploma was received after being admitted, though. I don't know that I met more diploma students there as AP dominates everything these days. Fwiw I thought I got a fantastic public school education with IB and I really knew so much more about literature & humanities than any of my MIT peers. Which, for a STEM-focused person, I think this made me more well-rounded as an adult.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:11     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Ok then have a few years to plan.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:10     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Not every high school offers IB in Fairfax county.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:08     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Anonymous wrote:Wtf is an iBoop?


IB Diploma.

This is what MIT cares about academically and it has been said and emphasized many times on DCUM. "A student is expected to take the most difficult courses available to them at any given time and excel in them."

If that means an IB diploma then yes, they care; otherwise they could care less.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:03     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
IBDP = IB diploma
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:03     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
^What?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 13:00     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Wtf is an iBoop?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2025 12:59     Subject: Does MIT want IBDP students?
Question is in the title.
Why?
Why not?