<p>Hey guys, my sister is an International Student and a rising freshman. She wants to attend a University in the US, so she will choose a high school that could help her on the way there. She has narrowed her choices down to two high school, one that awards an IB and one that offers the Edexcel diploma. Edexcel is not as well-known as IB so that scares her. What should she do, which diploma is better for the way to US?</p>
<p>As someone who goes to school in the US, I would recommend the IB diploma. Its a pretty well known program in the US, and I believe colleges give it the same weight as the American AP program. Maybe the admissions officer for international students would be familiar with the other program. It would be helpful if you could perhaps explain howthe Edexcel program works? Would it be comparable to AP or IB program in the US? Ultimately, I thinkthe decision is up to her. It would be misleading for me to say that the IB program gets preference on the sole grounds of familiarity. A college admissions officer will take the time to learn about the curriculum and get a sense for how challenging it is. I would go with the harder one. If they are equally challenging, she should pick based on personal preference. </p>
<p>I would not base the choice on the type of diploma, but rather which is going to give her a better education. For US uni admissions, I doubt there would be a preference.</p>
<p>Not all IB programs at different schools created equally. You better find out from the Naviance data or similar on how that high school perform and where the graduates go. Not even IB is that important if the school is good</p>
<p>Edexcel is a program where you get GCSE or IGCSE and AP lessons. With APs in mind, what do you think?</p>
<p>IB is the way to go. however, by user name, are you from a country in the south asia? </p>
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<p>I didn’t ask you that. I know who’s darth vader :p</p>
<p>there is a version 1 you may know. but anyways that’s not my business.</p>
<p>There are very few US schools that don’t give credit for or recognize IB so no problem there unless a specific school of interest has a different policy. Most schools however, only give credit for HL IB classes which you are limited to 4 of I believe. What I’m saying is more schools will recognize the term “International Baccalaureate” and its rigor as opposed to Edexcel but Edexcel, having AP classes, may offer more opportunity for college credit. Also, if she does choose Edexcel I don’t think she should be scared because if it is a program of AP’s then colleges will at least see that part and US colleges definitely like AP.
P.s. I may be a little biased as an IB student</p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>