Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.
Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to convince people W-L is on par with Yorktown.
I’m OP and not interested in Yorktown. Please keep up.
I’m not totally sure how my kid would do in pre-IB. I think he will have the grades but the current MS is not very rigorous. I do like the idea of ramping up language study though - I’m kind of at a loss about tween summers, and working on the language sounds like a good idea.
Are there any ways other than the pre-IB clusters that W-L mitigates the school size for freshmen?
Anonymous wrote:WL IB Diploma is as good as anything Yorktown offers. My 9th grader’s pre IB classes attract many Dorothy Hamm MS grads, zoned for Yorktown. 9th grade pre IB learners at WL are grouped in “small learning communities” where most of the students in English, Biology and World History classes are the same. The groupings have made a big difference for my kid. She’s making a group of pals and study buddies that should last. Don’t worry about the size of WL if your kid is a good fit for IB studies.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.
Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to convince people W-L is on par with Yorktown.
I’m OP and not interested in Yorktown. Please keep up.
I just heard back they aren't interested in you either. So it's all good...
I think it’s funny that this dog-in-the-manger thing exists everywhere. I thought it was just DC parents that were neurotic, but now I realize that some NOVA parents also need to put down other kids’ schools to alleviate their own anxiety about their own kids’ educations.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.
Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to convince people W-L is on par with Yorktown.
I’m OP and not interested in Yorktown. Please keep up.
I just heard back they aren't interested in you either. So it's all good...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.
Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to convince people W-L is on par with Yorktown.
I’m OP and not interested in Yorktown. Please keep up.
Anonymous wrote:For starters, the kids have to take math harder than algebra (generally geometry), 9th grade world history, bio and English “intensified” plus a language at Level 3+ and 2 electives. Lots of homework but not a crushing load. Teachers seem good or great across the board. It’s all better than we expected.
Anonymous wrote:Not really. Outside pre IB (for the most part, same prep as pre AP) 9th graders at WL land in a variety of regular core classes, generally with some classmate overlap.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.
Seems like a lot of hoops to jump through in order to convince people W-L is on par with Yorktown.
Anonymous wrote:WL pre IB essentially wants to see at least a B+ in each 8th grade intensified subject for a kid to qualify. Any less academically and the kid may struggle on the IB track at WL. You want to go the extra mile on language study if you’re serious about IB, e.g. summer immersion camps. Advanced language skills are common for pre IB students at WL. Good luck making your choice.