<p>zoosermom, since a couple of people have mentioned Canadian schools, I wanted to send you this link to U of Toronto's Classics Dept., which is an excellent one. It provides you with an abundance of information from curriculum to faculty lists (with areas of expertise and contact info should your D desire to email them), newsletters from the dept., collaborative programs that they run, campus events.</p>
<p>zoosermom - and maybe Bunsen Burner -- your schools sound a bit like ours. My S is now saying maybe he should opt out of a few IB classes as our school doesn't weight any grades at all and the val and sal are often kids with no honors or IB. The school offers only IB, no AP but of course you don't have to do the whole diploma. He is thinking of scaling back to regular classes in History and english with IB classes in science, math and french. He thinks this will increase his GPA and rank. What will colleges think of this? His goal is to get into a private school with good merit aid, or a public honors college. Is his plan a good one? or should he stick out the all IB and maybe end up around 3.5??? Ya'll sound experienced in this!</p>
<p>Well it's a trade off. You may reduce your chances of admissions if the GC no longer checks off "most demanding curriculum", but you may increase chances of merit aid if it's based strictly on GPA.</p>