<p>My daughter entered college with an IB diploma and 30 AP credits. This didn’t mess up anything. </p>
<p>The AP credits gave her the opportunity to start taking upperclass courses in her major as a freshman and also allowed her to place out of a freshman writing seminar she preferred not to take.</p>
<p>The experience of going through the IB program gave her the time management, writing, and study skills to allow her to transition to college work easily and to do well academically starting with the very first semester.</p>
<p>Where’s the problem?</p>
<p>To colorado_mom: Where we come from, kids in IB take AP tests in their IB subjects. That’s how they get college credit/advanced placement for their IB work (and the school helps by making some courses AP/IB – meaning that they prepare students for both tests). My daughter got exactly zero credits for her IB diploma, despite respectable scores (2 7’s and 4 6’s). But four of her eight AP tests were in subjects where she had taken the IB course, and she got credit for all of them.</p>