<p>Can anyone tell me, do any of the UC's grant admission to IB students more often than those who just do AP? I'm a IB Diploma candidate and was wondering if it is really going to help?</p>
<p>i am too :) but honestly i dunno if it helps.</p>
<p>i am too and the answer is a simple</p>
<p>no</p>
<p>lol IB is a big waste of my time then :</p>
<p>IB is a piece of crap. especially the extended essay. gosh that has wasted my whole summer...damn ib, just damn it. if u have a chance to drop it, do it right now!!!!!</p>
<p>^ dude no, IB rocsk!!! hahaha...EE sucks but I plan to procrastinate that until the week before its due hahahaha</p>
<p>having advanced classes definitely help in your stats, but i don't think it really matters if you're an IB diploma candidate or not...because of so many applicants flooding in with 100+ advanced classes, they just want to make sure that you've done the best you could in the hardest classes.</p>
<p>oh, and btw, megaman is right. IB rocks. way easier than AP at my school.</p>
<p>Yeah, IB seems to be easier, the only thing that is harder is EE. I haven't even started it at all, and don't plan to until after college applications. If it has taken your whole summer, you've worked on it way too long and you need to learn to research better.</p>
<p>ha! that's what i love about my school. i'm not a IB diploma candidate, I can still take whatever IB courses I want, minus all that work! i've heard that EEs were brutal....</p>
<p>I've actually heard that IB is harder than AP, but whatever they only offer IB at my school so it was really the only choice.</p>
<p>imkonadian88- I think a lot of IB shcools allow that, just getting the specific class certificate. I have a lot of friends who decided to do just certificates, but in general at my school just doing certificates is sort of look down upon, mainly because all the people doign certificates are extremely bright and capable but are just not willing to do the extra work associated with the diploma.</p>
<p>yup..i'm going for the certificates in math and bio</p>
<p>at our school, it's not looked down upon...its just that so many students take IB and AP that IB diploma candidates are just as good as anyone else at the school..I was thinking of doing IB diploma, but then again I moved to the US about 6 months ago...not a great option to catch up on Pre-IB's as a junior.</p>
<p>At our school most people drop out and i was going to until i was like screw it. Senior grades dont matter for the most part (unless you royally screw up) so i just signed those papers giving away my senior year to IB. :(</p>
<p>But seriously at our school AP and IB have a lot of the same classes, well at least the sciences, so it makes no difference there. And i dunno about the HL tests but these IB test study guides that we have at our school are PARALLEL to the SL examination. I swear if i had memorized that damn book i could have gotten a 7 on that Chem SL exam instead of my 5. Oh well, im happy with a 5 since i really didnt get AP Chem until the day before the AP exam lol (the IB exam was after).</p>
<p>edit: Oh yeah i almost forgot. IB requires 4 yrs of foreign language and i REALLY suck at spanish. A whole lot of BSing has gotten me past those three years of spanish without even knowing the tenses, when to use them, and spanish 1 (yes ONE) verbs. I hope i can survive AP spanish. God be with me.</p>
<p>AP's and the IB program are so different that i find it almost impossible to compare them. An IB course is taken over a span of two years so logically it should go more in depth. I've taken both AP chem and IB chem HL and from what I can see the AP focused more on the theory aspect of chemistry while IB was more numbers and experiment based. And also all those other ridiculous things in the IB like historical investigation, world lit, TOK, EE. I dunno but I find IB courses to be more more comprehensive than the AP's.</p>