<p>I am a teacher in a newly-accredited IB school, and my D just finished the college process. During the info sessions that I attended with her, I asked IB related questions for my information. The answers were fairly unanimous, from top-tiered schools. IB is considered the most rigorous program and if you are enrolled in it, schools understand your academic qualities, as they do if you are enrolled in all AP courses. They consider the two programs to be very, very similar, and very fine. IB scores, like AP scores, are used for placement, not for admission. The fact that you are in the IB program is what is considered for admission, as are all the other criteria (transcript, standardized scores, recommendations, essays, ECs, etc. etc. etc.) that go into your application. When your scores are reported in July, and you have them sent to the school you will attend, the school decides what to do with them, whether to give you advanced standing, or credit, or to just pat you on the back and say, “Good job.” </p>
<p>The IB Diploma Programme is always grades 11-12. Schools can also have Primary Years (grades 1-5) and Middle Years (grades 6-10), but your school is like all the others doing the Diploma Programme (spelling is IB!).</p>