<p>wow that sucks :( my school's IB program is complete crap IMO. Oh well I'll just stay in Canada and go to Mcgill or something. less of a hassle anyways.</p>
<p>i don't take any IB courses but my school offers tons of AP courses. this year, i'm taking AP english, AP bio, AP chem, and AP calc. but i do know people who have taken no AP or IB courses and gotten into schools in the States.</p>
<p>which schools? do you know?</p>
<p>When I was in 10th grade, a guy from my school got into MIT. NS curriculum courses, and I think he had a 105% average (school used to multiply by 1.05 for advanced courses). We didn't have the IB program back then.</p>
<p>Granted, he was a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>yeah the IB integration screwed me over...I'm from NS too...If I was only born 2 years earlier...</p>
<p>Are you in HRM? Hah, you might even go to my school. That'd be weirdddd.</p>
<p>Yeah I am, what school?</p>
<p>The bigger of the two in city proper, and it ain't downtown. That should be narrow enough :p</p>
<p>There are definitely others from NS at top schools who haven't taken IB, but they expect students to take the hardest curriculum offered. The most important thing they look at is the transcript, and it's a huge mark against you if you haven't taken advantage of the opportunities your school provides.</p>
<p>I have no idea what school you are hinting lol, I don't live in Halifax, I live in the suburb if you know what i mean
but even if I would do very badly in French, since the only one they offer is the course where they expect you to already know the language</p>
<p>if I was born 2 years earlier I'd have no problem</p>
<p>I tried IB for a month but it just wasn't for me. it wasn't the academic(other than french) more of the way the system is structured. If we had AP I'd be perfectly fine with taking that because there are more courses to choose from and you're not isolated.</p>
<p>CPA?</p>
<p>I kind of wish we had AP too. The scheduling is sort of ridiculous on a semester system. I had Physics first semester in 11th grade, didn't have it second semester. First semester this year just picked up were we left off seven months ago. It also meant that I had to self study everything for the SAT II's because none of my science courses finish until the end of this year.</p>
<p>yeah</p>
<p>yeah, it all makes me wish I had planned my high school education more seriously. looking back it's just a big mess of regrets :(</p>
<p>oh well, I'll stay in Canada i guess...maybe the US for post-grad studies...although if I choose to pursue law, I have to stay here for law school too.</p>
<p>I've heard bad things about IB at CPA. Kids have told me that the grade 12's there are completely unprepared for the exams, which is unfortunate. Apparently the West has fared the best in implementing it, but I dunno, we still have problems. I wonder what it's like at Cole Harbour or PA haha</p>
<p>you go to hfx west?</p>
<p>Yeah. I thought I'd be discrete at first, but then I realized that I've mentioned it in another post >_></p>
<p>where are you going for college?</p>
<p>I'm not sure yet. I applied to McGill and UBC (scholarship money will probably sway me) in Canada. I'll probably apply to Dal soon. I applied to HYP, Columbia, Penn and Dartmouth as well. As much as I'd love to get into even one, I'm not holding out.</p>
<p>I guess this thread is kind of dying. And it seems I haven't posted in a while. How are all the Canadians out there with their post secondary education?</p>
<p>I got into University of Miami, and I would love to get out of this ****ty weather! haha
but im still waiting for scholarship info, and to hear from JHU and Brown</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at WUSTL :(</p>
<p>But reading this thread made me re-live the last 4-5 months of my life (terrible haha), especially the stupid SAT's. However, here's some hope for other Canadians: I got into UM, Trinity U, WL'ed at WUSTL, with a <600 CR score on SAT and a 90 avg in grade 11 (Ontario Catholic school), no AP or IB crap</p>
<p>If i dont get enough $ ill most likely go to Queens, and forget the American hassle</p>
<p>OMG
i was also wait listed at WUSTL
honestly really disappointed; it was my safety.
Anyways, i'm waiting on UChicago, Northwestern, JHU, Brown, Cornell, and Princeton.
I've already been accepted to McGill (3k scholarship) and UBC (4k scholarship).
I'm pretty much set on going to McGill if i don't get into the states...
but here are my stats anyway</p>
<p>SAT: 2210 (Math: 790,Writing: 720,CR: 700)
SAT IIs: 770 Math II, 760 Chemistry, 740 Physics</p>
<p>Junior Rank: 20/475 (93% average)
Senior Rank: 1-3/475 (99% average)
Great ECs
Great Recs
unfortunately applied for financial aid, so we'll see what happens</p>
<p>ps. I'm from Vancouver!</p>
<p>Do you guys have any specific advice for those of us who will be going through the admissions process next year? It's obviously not dissimilar to what the Americans go through, but if you can give any pointers from a Canadian perspective I'd really appreciate it. :)</p>