<p>Just depends on which college</p>
<p>ive heard that a girl who did ib and applied to ucla was almost rejected because she hadnt done anything else (ap classes, etc.) and she didnt get much credit for college from ib either...
id like to get into ucla also but if ib doesnt give you that much credit then whats the point? aps gonna be better right?</p>
<p>depend how many aps u r taking....sl ib classes won't get u college credit but ib isn't as hard as everyone says....as a sophmore i took 1 ib class and 3 aps and they weren't that hard for me at least.....i'd say aps r just as hard but ib is more work because of the extended essay and the internal and external assessments</p>
<p>I agree. Another thing that is annoying about IB is that each subject has (at least) 2-3 separate exams usually on separate days. I'd honestly rather have them crammed into one to get it all over with. As you might imagine, rather than having two weeks of exams, like you do with AP, there's an entire exam month.</p>
<p>IB is a complete waste of time unless you plan to go to school internationally. Seriously, the kids who took it at my school didn't do any better at college admissions than they would have without it (assuming they would've taken a bunch of AP classes instead). </p>
<p>Admittedly, there were a couple who got some full/good-sized scholarships at some crappier schools, but other than that it's the most useless thing you can possibly do.</p>
<p>well it depends if the IB school offers the full IB curriculum. If it doesn't you basically have no choice in what courses you take and you might not even be able to take higher level courses if it doesn't fit in with the rest of your diploma plan. standard level courses do not offer college credit, and you are required to take at least 2 of them, and a maximum of 4 higher level courses. If you take the AP route you can rack up 12+ AP courses rather than 4 higher level IB courses.</p>
<p>poiuytrewq, you are completley wrong saying that IB is useless. Maybe a few IB students at your school didn't do well having an IB diploma, but at the vast majority of schools that offer it, there students have a much higher acceptance rate. I go to a school that offers both exstensive AP and IB courses and few AP kids got accepted to ivies while a large amount of full IB candidates did. In addition to increasing your chances of acceptance IB also prepares you for college, unlike AP. AP exams are much easier than IB exams, in fact a many IB students take ap exams in a similar IB course, easily getting a 5 on the AP exam, but hardly do they score a 7 on the IB exam(this is without extra preperation for the supposedly challenging AP material).</p>
<p>I take IB at my school, and all the colleges that come here say that they love to see us taking it because it is more comprehensive than AP.</p>
<p>dont get me wrong, i HATE the international baccalaureate at the moment. but i do feel like it is teaching me to write MUCH better because all of the exams are really just essays. In the long run, I will probably be happy with my experience in IB.</p>
<p>there is a saying at my school:
"IB asks you what you know, AP tests what you don't know."</p>
<p>I ended up taking seven APs in high school and was an IB diploma candidate. There is a lot of overlap in the material for some courses, like chemistry or math. It is easier to get college credit for APs, where all you need is a 4 or 5, then for IB exams, where you usually need a 6 or 7, and that's on HLs only.</p>
<p>That said, I really enjoyed my IB experience and felt like it prepared me for college better, because you do have to write so much. It IS a lot of work, with Extended Essay, CAS, TOK, and internal assessments, but that's what makes IB more comprehensive than AP. And IB helped me get a full tuition scholarship at the University of Miami, so I disagree that it's "a complete waste of time."</p>
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poiuytrewq, you are completley wrong saying that IB is useless. Maybe a few IB students at your school didn't do well having an IB diploma, but at the vast majority of schools that offer it, there students have a much higher acceptance rate. I go to a school that offers both exstensive AP and IB courses and few AP kids got accepted to ivies while a large amount of full IB candidates did. In addition to increasing your chances of acceptance IB also prepares you for college, unlike AP. AP exams are much easier than IB exams, in fact a many IB students take ap exams in a similar IB course, easily getting a 5 on the AP exam, but hardly do they score a 7 on the IB exam(this is without extra preperation for the supposedly challenging AP material).
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<p>AP is weighed the same in admissions, assuming you take a full load of AP's every year. Why don't people understand this?</p>
<p>How can you say AP exams are much easier? Source?</p>
<p>That is a completely opinion-based statement. Some students love to write. Some hate rote memorization and have more analytical minds. Obviously, they would do much better on IB exams than AP exams. </p>
<p>Um, and again you give your opinion in saying IB prepares you better for college. Source? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>No ****, it's pretty damn easy to understand that an HL class will give you an easy 5 on an AP exam. You prepared TWO years vs. the one year of an AP class.</p>
<p>Wow, you actually think that the fact that people who took IB have a higher admission rate means **** about the impact of the program itself? Take a goddamn basic science class, correlation does not imply causation. Obviously people who are ambitious enough to do the work required for IB are going to get into better colleges, but that's because they were more AMBITIOUS, not because they chose IB over AP.</p>