<p>I'll get some credit. My school gives credit for some HLs. I had four HLs: Math, English, History, and Business. </p>
<p>History: 7. This gets me six credits apparently. And out of two of the first levels of history? I don't completely understand the whole system yet but I was trying today.</p>
<p>English: 6. It seems like a 6 in English is treated the same as a 7 at my school, so lucky me, since it was really the oral presentation/oral commentary that did me in. They gets me three credits I think and waives the writing requirement. </p>
<p>Math: 4, which doesn't get me anything obviously. I wish I had taken the BC calculus AP exam though, but it's difficult to do so here. Due to circumstances somewhere beyond my control, I didn't really learn any of the statistics curriculum and that's a hefty portion of the exam so, I wasn't complaining. But IB doesn't break down their scores by say, calculus mastery (which I feel I have mastered pretty well since we spent a lot of the last two years on it). I think that colleges should reexamine the way they give IB math credit. A 7 on SL should be worth credit IMO, for example. But my school does give credit for 6 and 7 on HL I think.</p>
<p>Apparently no credit for Business at my school. I really wish my high school had IB econ because I am thinking of majoring in econ and the credit for that looked like a sweet deal. But my high school doesn't have it so that's neither here nor there. :)</p>
<p>All in all I would say the straight "no SL" rules are not very sensible. Actually this would exclude the "further" math course IB offers, which is only one year but possibly the most advanced math curriculum offered at the high school level. Also when colleges are awarding credit for 4s in HL languages, and not even for 7s in SL, that makes no sense. I know this because my language class was an HL/SL split, and we practiced both exam papers during the year. A 4 or even 5 on HL is equivalent mastery to a 7 on SL. </p>
<p>My base (public non magnet) school is IB, so taking IB was all kinds of worth it for me because otherwise I'd have had to switch out to an AP school.</p>