IB Classes

[krayziekid727]

Originally posted by unknown_wanderer@Jul 2, 05:05 PM
I didn't know there were IB classes. I only knew of IB schools and AP classes. I was accepted into a IB school but declined. I instead chose to go to a selective enrollment school. Which is pretty funny because before I was adamant about attending LP IB and not enrolling in WY but eh.

One reason why WY was looking better than LP IB was because of the summer classes.

If it's an IB school that probably means that it has an IB curriculum rather than an AP curriculum.

[cellosweet x)]

I've never heard of IB before... Even if it is at my school, only sophomores/juniors, right? I'll have to ask about this..

[my_papaya]

My school offers both IB and AP classes, and is the only school in the county to offer IB at all. Of course, it's not that much of a draw point; no one's going to transfer districts for it, and many parents still send their kids to private schools once they get to high school or middle school because they fear the effects of our diversity. That's all irrelevant, though.

I actually did not do pre-IB, because as I was not very familiar with it coming out of middle school (I couldn't attend the IB meeting), I was under the impression that pre-IB was much harder than it actually was (I ended up in the IB world history class sophomore year, and I got my highest grades of any class in there), and that I would have to do full diploma, and I knew I wasn't up for that because I was terrible at math even then. Pre-IB at my school is really just taking all honors and/or gifted classes (which I did anyway), and taking social studies out of order to allow for the two year History of the Americas. One of my biggest regrets for a while was not doing pre-IB, because then I'd have had a whole extra period this year, but I guess it's alright, because now I get AP, which is probably better in the long run. Because I've always taken gifted language arts, I got to skip the sophomore class in order to do IB the last two years (or drop to senior honors and then pick an AP). Obviously, I chose to do IB, so despite not taking pre-IB, I have one IB class, which is what most of my pre-IB friends have anyway (although some got to take TOK too, and I couldn't fit it into my schedule). It's nice because it's basically like taking two consecutive AP classes, and there's no other way to do that.

IB itself is not the greatest- if you have the option, you're probably better off just taking as many AP classes as possible- because IB just equals excess stress, and not all schools even accept it. I know Emory at least doesn't really take it, which has screwed over some of my friends quite a lot. Plus, one of my most brilliant friends, who's like third in our class right now, is taking so many IB classes he could have gone for the diploma, because he even chose to write the extended essay over some Georgia project, but he didn't feel like doing that much community service or taking another year of German, and a lot of teachers and the IB coordinator (who, incidentally, was our language arts teacher last year) have gotten onto him about it, but IB is just so excessive that he felt it was better for him personally to just get the certificate and be happy.