<p>First of all, congrats to all of you who got in! :)
I have observed Ivy League acceptances at our school, and it was mostly IB students that have gotten into top-tier colleges. So, I would like to know which one YOU guys took, which subjects you took (if AP), and if both AP and IB were available. Do you think it is true that Ivy League colleges prefer IB students?</p>
<p>Here is the format, if you wanna use it. :)
1. Acceptances:
2. AP/IB?:
3. Both available at school?:
4. Courses in Junior & Senior years:
5. How was it?:
6. AP vs. IB in college admissions?:</p>
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<li>Acceptances: U Oregon (Honors), American, Northeastern, Macalester, Brown</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: only AP</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: I'm grad. a year early so only jr. year. Um, Statistics, Bio and US</li>
<li>How was it?: hmmm? Umm stats is ok, US is a lot of work but not very hard, and Bio just plain sucks.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: IDK and IDCare</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, U of Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Penn State</li>
<li>Only AP</li>
<li>No</li>
<li>1 Ap jr, 4 ap sr</li>
<li>Lots of work with no let up</li>
<li>Can't say</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Pton, Columbia, Dartm, Duke, Berkeley, UChicago, NYU Stern, among others.</li>
<li>AP/IB?: IB</li>
<li>Both available at school?: no, only IB</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: the usual courses</li>
<li>How was it?: your typical courseload at my school</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: er... I'd say IB DIPLOMA, if you had a choice. they say they eval you in terms of the hardest course you COULD HAVE taken, so you aren't penalised if one or the other wasnt offered. (Just thought I'd add an IBer's perspective.)</li>
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<p>Hope this helps students / parents / anyone. But please try to look past the "Ivy League" image. Lots of other great schools out there!</p>
<p>I didn't get accepted into an Ivy League but I thought I'd put in my two cents and just give some more information to help out people interested in seeing if AP or IB makes a difference.</p>
<p>My school offers both AP and IB.</p>
<p>I applied to one Ivy (Harvard) and was wait-listed. Another girl at my school who took a rigorous amount of AP classes was also wait-listed at Harvard. A friend of mine in I.B. was accepted into Cornell but rejected from Columbia and Princeton.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't think that the Ivies care if a student takes AP rather than IB or IB rather than AP. First, they want to see that you've taken either and then they want to see what AP or IB classes you do take and how well you perform on the tests.</p>
<p>Of course, I'm just basing this off my own observations especially given that both I (as a full IB diploma candidate) and another girl from my school (who took a heavy load of AP classes) were wait-listed at Harvard. We both took a challenging selection of courses (me in IB, her in AP) and scored well on the tests we took.</p>
<p>I really think it does come down to what and how many IB/AP courses you take and then your scores.</p>
<p>Although, I should probably add that I did take four AP classes and three AP tests during high school as well and since I haven't taken any of my IB tests yet the only scores Harvard saw were for my AP tests.</p>
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<li>Acceptances: MIT, UChicago, Columbia, Brown</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Nope, just AP.</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Junior year I took AP French, AP English Language, AP Chem, AP Calc AB, and AP US. Senior year I'm taking AP Environmental, AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Euro, and AP English Lit.</li>
<li>How was it?: Not bad at all.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: No idea... AP didn't hurt.</li>
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<p>Here is the format, if you wanna use it.
1. Acceptances: Princeton, Brown (only other Ivy League applied to: Yale - waitlisted)
2. AP/IB?: AP - but only during my senior year, and only 3 total
3. Both available at school?: IB not available, AP available (but only like 6 AP classes available)
4. Courses in Junior & Senior years: Most difficult available in core curriculum definitely, electives were of interest and were difficult (but there are others that are more difficult that I wasn't interested in)
5. How was it?: My classes? Boring, fun, okay. Workload never seems to bother me too much
6. AP vs. IB in college admissions?: I always heard IB is better...but I live in CA, so we don't really have it.</p>
<p>Edit - Noticed non-Ivy League schools were posted as well...so UCLA, UCB, U Chicago, U of Rochester, Pomona, Oberlin added to my list.</p>
<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Ivies: Brown, Dartmouth. Others: Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: only APs</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Junior: Calc BC, bio, French lang. Senior: stats, gov, physics</li>
<li>How was it?: Not impossible. More than 3 APs per year would have been tough though.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: I don't know much about IB.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Acceptances: HYPSM, others</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Yes</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Jr: AP Phys C, Multivariable Calc, AP Chem, AP Eng Lit, AP US Hist Sr: AP Bio, AP Eng Lan, AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Govt, AP Pysch</li>
<li>How was it?: uh boring, esp the humanities</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: don't know</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Dartmouth, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rice, Rutgers</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Only AP Classes offered (4 max courses, only two of which is available junior year).</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Junior -- AP Calc BC (class), AP US History (self-studied), AP English Lit and Lang (self-studied); Senior -- AP Chemistry (class), AP Environmental Science (non-AP class)</li>
<li>How was it?: Interesting. I thought the humanities APs were pretty easy without much prep. APUSH was a pain though with the memorization, and I managed to screw up royally on AP Calc BC, so much so that I'm re-taking it this year.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: -shrugs- Whatever's available, I suppose.</li>
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<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Pton, Stanford, JHU</li>
<li>AP/IB?: IB</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Yes</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Usual diploma program courseload</li>
<li>How was it?: I miss sleep</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: About the same</li>
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<ol>
<li>Acceptances: UPenn (Wharton), UVA, Willamette, U of Oregon (Honors), U of Arizona (Honors)</li>
<li>AP/IB?: IB Full Diploma</li>
<li>Both available at school?: No</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Biology IB (HL), English IB (HL), History of the Americas IB & 20th Century Issues IB (HL), Psychology IB (SL), Pre-Calculus IB (SL), Spanish 4 IB (SL), Theory of Knowledge IB, Physics, Economics, Calculus, American Government</li>
<li>How was it?: Not too bad - only real downside is the sleep deprivation</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: I would say schools are starting to lean toward the global focus presented through IB.</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Dartmouth, Rice, UChicago</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: No</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: Chemistry, Eng. Lang, U.S. History, Euro History, Spanish Lang, US Gov't, Comp Gov't, Microeconomics, Calc AB, and Eng. Lit.</li>
<li>How was it?: Lots of homework... probably necessary to get accepted at top-tier schools</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: I have no idea</li>
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<p>It IS interesting. How many APs per year would you say are equivalent to IB Full Diploma? I know that the two are not that easy to compare, but I just wanna get a general idea.</p>
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<li>Acceptances: Columbia, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, UCSD, UCLA, University of Washigton</li>
<li>AP/IB?: IB</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Yup</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: IB English 11, IB English 12, IB Euro History, IB Contemporary World, IB Physics SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, IB Mathematics HL, AP Calc BC</li>
<li>How was it?: Pwned my health, but I'm glad I chose IB. I learned a lot.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: I think it's the same, depending on what you do with it. Work hard.</li>
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<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Brandeis (no rejections anywhere)</li>
<li>AP/IB?: AP</li>
<li>Both available at school?: No</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: 1 AP sophomore year, 3 APs junior year, 6 APs senior year</li>
<li>How was it?: I never thought I had enough work to do. Guess that'll change at Princeton!</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: doesn't matter, so long as you work hard, imo.</li>
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<ol>
<li>Acceptances: Princeton, U Penn
JHU (BME), WashU-St. Louis, CMU, UNC-Chapel Hill</li>
<li>AP/IB?: IB</li>
<li>Both available at school?: Yes</li>
<li>Courses in Junior & Senior years: IB--English (HL), History (HL), Math (HL), Art (SL), Biology (HL)</li>
<li>How was it?: Hard. In sheer amount of work, though, not difficulty of actual content. At my school, we IB'ers feel that we have the best teachers. I do not regret taking IB, although I don't think I would do it again given the chance (then again, attending an Ivy school might well be a continuation of an IB-equivalent work load). Overall, I feel that college will be much less intimidating because IB pushes you to the threshold of what one person can do without going insane.</li>
<li>AP vs. IB in college admissions?: IB does matter if it is offered at your school. However, because admissions decisions are based on the complete package presented in an application, IB may not matter if you have some extraordinary accomplishment (Intel or Siemens winner, founder of community organization, Olympic athlete), write brilliant essays, or are a URM.</li>
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