<p>I’m a rising IB (international baccalaureate) senior and I’m just wondering if anyone else is in my position. I don’t know of any IB senior who got accepted into an ivy league school and I’m concerned that I’m wasting my life on some crap that my parents coerced me into. If you are an IB graduate please post some of your scores and let me know if it prepared you in any way for real life.</p>
<p>I know a lot of IB kids here at Brown... not sure where you got the impression that it's useless.</p>
<p>It's a fantastic program, and will be great preparation. Take if from someone who's been there and will be starting his third year at Brown in the fall...</p>
<p>what type of grades did you have?</p>
<p>Good grades; my school did US-style grades rather than IB-style grades for report cards. I did very well on the IB, though - I thought it was a fun challenge.</p>
<p>but like what was your gpa? also i'm wondering whether to stay in the public magnet IB program or go to a private school <a href="http://www.nbps.org%5B/url%5D">www.nbps.org</a></p>
<p>I took the IB and consistently had a GPA of around 4.2 weighted (3.85 uw). IB is good for you, really. It's hell but definitely worth it. Plus you can get tuition credit for it at Brown, whereas with AP you cannot.</p>
<p>Good point, tatertotty. I agree with the assessment, too - I'd stick with the IB if I were you. It's a great program and Brown seems to have a lot of respect for it, given their tuition credit policy.</p>
<p>I personally enjoy IB. I'm 3rd in my class and I have some good teachers, but none of the seniors from last year were accepted to any really exceptional schools, none from the top 10 at least. Some didn't even get accepted to state schools, even with good grades. I know that this has happened to many other students in my area and some parents say that only 40 percent of colleges recognize IB at all. It just makes me wonder if IB or AP would be better, that's all.</p>
<p>See, this is what's strange to me... Students at my international school would often talk about whether someone was 'doing' the IB or 'doing' the AP, but there was a fundamental misunderstanding there. The IB is a curriculum - it's full featured and consumes two years of your life. The term 'AP' just designates a series of tests that can be taken after one-year courses designed to prepare you for those tests. There's a fundamental difference, and I think it's a little bit silly to think of the two as being in opposition to one another. Nothing stops you from completing a full IB diploma and still taking ten AP classes - I've known people who've come close, largely because they planned on going to one of the schools who don't 'recognize' the IB. That, by the way, usually simply means that they don't have a procedure for credit-granting set up because they don't get many students of IB caliber :-). In short, don't worry about it so much, especially in re Brown.</p>