<p>Has anybody here taken IB Economics HL in high school (and got a 6 or 7) and then went on to Columbia to take econ courses? </p>
<p>If so, did you use the credit to skip Principles and go straight to harder courses? Or is it a better idea to start with the easiest course again??</p>
<p>Also if anybody did the IB Diploma, could you compare the workload of Columbia with the IB.... I heard some say college is more difficult, and some say that the IB is!</p>
<p>I suggest starting fresh. Principles of Econ here is tough in and of itself and there's a lot of material that you might not cover in the IB course.</p>
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<p>sure the IB is tough but it's still high school. I think this really depends on which IB courses you took and what your major at columbia is. I would definitely say that columbia is harder than the IB but then again I was an engineering major. </p>
<p>As for IB Econ HL, i never took it but i heard it was super intensive, or at least it was at my school, so if it is equally intensive at your school then i feel you should skip principles. You might also want to take a look at the syllabus for principles and if you feel that you are strong in all the topics then no reason to take it over.</p>
<p>"Has anybody here taken IB Economics HL in high school (and got a 6 or 7) and then went on to Columbia to take econ courses?"</p>
<p>I have.</p>
<p>"If so, did you use the credit to skip Principles and go straight to harder courses?" </p>
<p>I did, started with intermediate macro.</p>
<p>"Or is it a better idea to start with the easiest course again??"</p>
<p>principles is a great course but after IB econ you absolutely do not need to take it if you've have had a good teacher, understand the material and managed a 6 or a 7 in HL. It doesn't hurt to take principles, it's a solid course, will refresh your memory and is usually taught by good profs (it still won't be an easy A)</p>
<p>"Also if anybody did the IB Diploma, could you compare the workload of Columbia with the IB.... I heard some say college is more difficult, and some say that the IB is!"</p>
<p>in high school you tend to balance 5-6 extra currics with academics so you're very busy, in college you whittle it down to one or two ecs (each hopefully more involving than in hs). Academically college is much more difficult than the IB (maybe not first sem freshman year), the difference is college teaches you to work smarter and more efficiently so you accomplish much more in a quicker time. If you don't cross the hurdle of coming to college (time management, working efficiently) college will be much more difficult, if you do, it can be 'easier'. There's also a greater variance of work load in college, taking four easy classes could see you out 4-5 nights a week, take 6 with a few very tough ones will keep you quite busy (though not overly so), taking physics 2800 and organic chemistry at the same time will slowly erode your soul.</p>
<p>I'll look at the syllabus of Principles and see how much I know before deciding...</p>
<p>It'd be nice if i can skip it and go straight to intermediate micro/macro, since that leaves me one more space for another course I want to take!</p>