<p>Does anyone know if Johns Hopkins will revoke admission for not receiving the IB Diploma? I heard some schools do that.</p>
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I’ve not heard of a single US college that would do that.</p>
<p>My son is competing his IB exams right now- I, too, know of no school that would revoke an offer if admission for not obtaining the IB diploma.</p>
<p>Wait, but if the IB diploma is the only diploma received, then not obtaining the IB diploma will likely lead to a rescission right?</p>
<p>I don’t think they would revoke admission unless not receiving the IB diploma means not graduating (like at my school)</p>
<p>For kids doing IB in the US, there is usually a regular high school diploma that is separate from the IB diploma. In fact, at many US high schools, the final transcript wouldn’t even indicate whether the student received the IB diploma or not, so the college won’t even find out, unless they ask, which they won’t.</p>
<p>If you’re coming from another country, it may be a different story. Your admission may be contingent on your getting the diploma, or even on achieving scores within some margin of your predicted scores. It depends on how the particular college handles it.</p>
<p>I am in the US. In my state, Washington, the IB diploma counts as your high school diploma allowing us to take lots of advanced classes instead of wastes of time (PE, Health, basic tech competency) The problem is that if we don’t get the diploma we can’t graduate.</p>
<p>Int Bacc- how is that? My son is doing the IB diploma, and he will be graduating in a few weeks. His IB exam scores will not be back till mid July. He will also get his IB diploma depending on how he does on the exams. Regardless of his IB scores (I’m sure he will get the IB diploma), he will still be getting his HS diploma.</p>
<p>At our school, the high school lets us walk and gives us a blank, placeholder diploma. When our IB scores are sent to the school and it is confirmed that we get the IB diploma we have to go to the high school and pick up an official IB and high school diploma. We have only had 1 person ever not get enough points to get the diploma but they were able to retake the test. In all honesty the actual diploma process means nothing. By the time an IB student finds out if they receive the full diploma they will most likely have been accepted to college and be preparing for that.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard of some Canadian schools rescinding because someone failed to get an IB diploma (if their admission was based on predicted IB scores or whatever).</p>
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I think this is highly unusual for IB programs in the US. Do you send predicted scores to colleges? And is their admission decision conditional on your final scores?</p>
<p>@Hunt</p>
<p>My son is finishing his IB exams next week. No school asked about predicted IB scores. In fact, this isn’t even asked on the Common App. His admission to any of the schools he applied to was NOT contingent on his IB scores, but they do reserve the right to rescind an admission if there is a dramatic decline in grades during senior year. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>In some schools out of US, the predicted grades are the transcripts, so i suppose failing the diploma would be like getting a <2.0 gpa, and might be quite problematic.</p>
<p>For at least some non-US universities, admission is based on the predicted IB scores, but is conditional on the actual scores being within some specified range of the predicted scores. This is a little like the idea for US colleges that admission might be rescinded if second semester senior grades drop too much. But it’s my impression that the IB score requirements are specific, as opposed to the US rescission threat, which rarely happens, and is a judgment call for the college. (There may be some US colleges with specific requirements–the UC system, maybe?)</p>
<p>My kids were in an IB program in the US, and I don’t believe we ever received any predicted scores for them. No college asked for them, and no college asked whether they got the IB diploma or not. The final transcript from the high school, with letter grades, was the last thing sent to the colleges, and that was before IB scores came out.</p>
<p>Well, normally if colleges want all B or above, how would you convert IB grades to normal grades? 6-7 = A, 5 = B, and so on?</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen it’s usually just an extra point per IB class. So an A is 5 B is 4 so on</p>
<p>Oh you mean IB test scores. You don’t take those until after you’re accepted (typically) so colleges usually look at your grades not test scores.</p>
<p>But if you come from a European school, you may only have IB scores from your junior year, and predicted scores from your senior year. I don’t know how those scores can be converted into letter grades, but there may be some formula. I suspect that your other standardized tests become more important if all you have on your transcript are predicted IB scores.</p>