<p>Do universities such as UVA etc. care more about IB than AP?</p>
<p>bump!!! !!!</p>
<p>Who said they do?</p>
<p>I’ve only heard one person say that they felt that their AP child didn’t get accepted to an ivy-type elite because that college preferred kids from a neighboring school with IB program.</p>
<p>I think if a school prefers anything, it’s one school over the other for a whole slew of reasons (as opposed to a program). It’s comparing apples to oranges–AP allows you to pick and choose to your strengths, whereas IB focuses more on breadth of study and requires CAS and a thesis of sorts (Extended Essay). I know in my state, UNC is pretty friendly towards IB kids from my school, but not so much from a nearby IB school, whereas Duke takes the opposite stance. But keep in mind, the IB kids from my school with so-so grades are a disadvantage to AP kids who maintain a high unweighted GPA and have time for a lot of ECs. </p>
<p>Basically, what I’ve noticed is that when a college knows a particular school/particular program in that school and they know kids from that school/program are prepared for work at that college, they are more willing to pick a few kids from that school. But, as is the case with most people applying to more competitive/non-local schools, these schools don’t know your program. They only know what your transcript tells them.</p>
<p>WOW!!, thank you both for your wonderful answers.</p>
<p>Colleges aren’t going to “prefer” one over the other because in most instances, students don’t have the choice of program available to them. All the selective universities care about is that students take advantage of the most challenging academics available to them in their respective high schools.</p>