<p>Hi all, sorry if question have been asked before already.</p>
<p>I am international, going to EXTREMELY competetive private highschool. About 15% of 65 students who grad each year go to top schools(Oxbridge, LSE etc)</p>
<p>Was curios, do Ivies look at your predicted as something really valuable and as something which decides, since we dont have usual GPA here in year11/12. We only receive grades based on IB scale.</p>
<p>What is a good score for Ivy? I mean I guess it is 40+/45, right? To be above average.</p>
<p>I think there is a section in the mid year report where the counselor can mention your predicted scorese, but i doubt it’ll make much difference.</p>
<p>I mean, it’s a “predicted score.” Some schools outrageously overpredict while the others underpredict. For example, an IB school in my region predicts on average 3~6 poitns higher than what the students end up getting. In my school it’s the opposite. I really wouldn’t count on it.</p>
<p>I think that for international schools, the predicted counts a lot more than for US students studying IB. I am in an international school studying IB and usually predicteds are quite important. The Brown/Penn people who came to our school said that a good score for an Ivy is 40/42 - excluding the 3 extra points. But it may just be the Ivys that are so picky. Emory has been known to accept people from my school with 36 points.</p>
<p>Good score you mean the score which they will impress them, or just an average? Can’t see it being average, since extremely small amount of people get more than 40/42…</p>
<p>Once again, US colleges don’t really value predicted scores. There are high schools that overpredict and there are schools that underpredict. They are not necessarily an accurate representation of an applicant’s ability. </p>
<p>Since US schools don’t offer “conditional” acceptances based on final IB scores, they cannot afford to weigh it too heavily in admissions. (unlike the UK)</p>
<p>I’m in two minds about whether your predicted score makes a difference. On one hand, it’s a great sign if you’re predicted 40+ as it shows your teachers’ confidence in your academic ability. On the other hand, it is a predicted score and your actual results may vary greatly. Like the above post said, lots of High Schools overpredict/underpredict and technically, the absence of conditional offers in the States means that predicted scores aren’t of much value since you will be enrolled in a college by the time your scores come out. I’ve seen people in my school who were predicted 40s, yet when they got into the college of their choice they sort of slacked and ended up getting 32. Conversely, I’ve seen people who were predicted quite low and ended up getting a remarkably high score. I think you should focus on your HS transcript and Junior/Senior year school grades as it’s absolutely certain they are one of the most important aspects of your application. A high predicted score is great, but it won’t be valued as much as your transcript; it’ll be treated as a plus in your favor.
(Although if your predicted score is 40 then I suppose it’s safe to assume your HS grades are pretty stellar anyway, so I wouldn’t worry too much.)</p>
<p>Well thats the thing! We only have IB classes in our junior/senior grades, and on transcript, we have only our IB subjects, with grades varying from 1 to 7!</p>
<p>And predicted score is basically created after getting grades from finals in all IB subjects at the end of junior year. So I think, US really should and I hope, will value my predicted grades.</p>
<p>Does your school not convert it to GPA? My school grades on an IB scale as well, but they convert it to a GPA for our transcript. I have no idea how they do it, but it’s all weighted and on a 4.0 scale. If your school doesn’t convert, I’m sure your transcript would still be valid since a lot of people submit applications without having a 4.0 grading scale. They’ll look at it in context, so as long as you’ve done well in your particular grading system, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Not only are there very stringent rubrics for IB grading that standardize scores, but teachers are required to be very, very close to the official score when predicting grades. If they are off by more than two score “bands” on, say, the Internal Assessment, the entire class’s grades are boosted/knocked down accordingly. Teachers learn very quickly what IB is looking for.</p>
<p>I do realize that for the actual assessments (both internal and external), there are cases of moderations and grade modification. </p>
<p>What I am talking about is the PREDICTED grades. I go to an IB school in which more than half of its graduates attend college in the UK. I know how predicted grades work at the schools. Believe me. High schools over predict and under predict. And UK colleges actually take that into account in their admissions.</p>
<p>^What I’m saying is that a teacher’s ability to predict grades will improve with time. It’s very rare to find a school predicting grades that are consistently way off the mark.</p>