Full IB Diploma?

Applying to College
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<p>Currently I am a freshman in an International School in Asia. I am looking to apply to a pre-med college in the US for my undergraduate. I am looking to take IB courses since they are the only rigorous academic path offered at my school. I have planned to take the full IB diploma courses, but then I realized that I would only be able to take 2 science classes. Thus, I was wondering which of the two academic path listed below would be a better preparation for pre-med college. </p>

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<li>Full IB Diploma</li>
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<p>Classes:
- IB English SL
- IB Maths HL
- IB Spanish SL
- IB Economics SL
- IB Biology HL
- IB Chemistry HL</p>

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<li>Not Full IB Diploma</li>
</ol>

<p>Classes:
- IB English SL
- IB Biology HL
- IB Chemistry HL
- IB Physics HL
- IB Spanish SL
- IB Maths HL</p>

<p>In the second option I would be able to take 3 science courses at higher level, but I would not be graduating high school with an IB diploma. </p>

<p>Thus, which of the two academic path would be a better preparation for college for me and with which path would I have a higher chance at selective colleges and Ivy League.</p>

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<p>I don’t know much about IB, but I am pretty sure physics isn’t part of medicine</p>

3

<p>Get your IB diploma. It will be worth it after all the hard work you have done. Don’t worry about taking three HL sciences - two is perfectly fine for premed. I think both tracts are fine for challenging yourself - you could even do a fourth HL in option 1 but it’s not really necessary.</p>

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<p>I agree that you should be fine with either one and there’s nothing wrong with only taking two sciences. You’re going to spend at least a decade in school for medicine so it’s not like you’re in a hurry trying to get ready to do surgery in high school.</p>

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<p>As an IB student, I would suggest getting the Diploma. Honestly, two sciences is enough.</p>

<p>If you want you can have 4 HL’s, meaning you could do Economics HL in Option 1.</p>