<p>I think any IB subject is tough.. but yes it is true that some are more demanding than others. I do HL visual arts, english A1 and history.. It's a great combo, but very time consuming. Days spent in the studio doing art + reading and essays are a given every week.
But yes, ledyana, I think you are right; IB does prepare you v.well for college. My friends who are in uni now (who did the IB) say that freshmen year is most definitely a breeze.</p>
<p>How many times do people have to say, "It depends???"</p>
<p>My son and his best friend both did AP, one's at a top LAC, the other at an Ivy, and both got 4.0s their freshman year in VERY demanding courses.</p>
<p>So THEY were well-prepared by AP courses for the most rigorous schools in the country.</p>
<p>Other people might take AP or IB and NOT find freshman year "a breeze!" It depends on the shcool, program, etc.</p>
<p>Of course it is all relative.. and obviously your son and his best friend are very smart people.
But I was just saying how IB is a good course, nothing else..</p>
<p>I'm not just targeting you, silver_wavez, but this thread and many others like it constantly repeat the same old-same old, namely that IB is "in depth" learning while somehow AP is "rote memorization," that one is all about analysis and one only about facts, that one is about learning and prep for college while the other is just "taking a test." It gets really, really, old.</p>
<p>Here are some quotes, and the first two are yours:
"And it's really just soooooooooo much better than APs or whatever."</p>
<p>"Well it is true that colleges to see a difference... Of course there is a difference..."</p>
<p>"Most people who graduated from my school with an IB diploma says that college's workload becomes so little compared to the workload in IB.. "</p>
<p>Sorry, as I said before as an Ivy interviewer, if it "makes a difference," how do you explain the FACT that sometimes students from AP schools are accepted to Ivies while students from IB ones are turned down? How do you explain students like my son and his friend who got 4.0s at the hardest schools in the country, yet took AP? My son's cousin took IB and she was turned down by all the top schools she applied to, and is currently a B student at a second tier. Other IB kids are doing great. </p>
<p>I repeat - it depends on the program, but this incessant bragging is too much! And it is not necessary to keep lying about AP classes - my kids (3) have ALL been in them and they ALL had to do research, analysis, essay writing, etc. etc. etc. etc. They did NOT do rote memorization of facts nor were they taught JUST "to the test." It may be true that someplaces have crappy AP courses, but some students have crappy IB classes too.</p>
<p>Seriously, if IB is so great, why is the ONLY way people defend is by repeating that it is "better" than an imaginary vision of AP? Why is it necessary to compare at all? </p>
<p>Can we possibly let this go now?</p>
<p>AP and IB are a joke, more schools should follow CalTech lead and stop offering credit for these so called college level courses.</p>
<p>Best thing for everyone to do is ignore Vtboy's posts. He is relentless. Don't say I didn't warn you!</p>