<p>My daughter is a rising senior and signed up for full IB last year and did really well despite the fact that it was so much stress and a lot of work. She wants to drop full IB and I think that's a mistake because it may hurt her chances of getting into a good school. She already has two AP subjects where she scored really well and ranks 9th out of 252 in her grade. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>IB is good and very attractive to admission officers! I had a friend who dropped full IB and got to UCSD, UCI, UCSB… if she cant go on with all that she has to handle let her drop cause i know from experience that its not an easy job to get IB Diploma!!! but the classes are still going to be the same! same amount of work! its just that she wont have to worry about the exams! which are pretty hard!..</p>
<p>instead she should take AP exams for the courses she took! it would be great for her college credits! she wont have to spend time taking prerequisites! </p>
<p>if you had any particular questions let me know :)</p>
<p>Don’t do the IB dear god, whatever you do. It won’t make a difference. If the school has AP, take those.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. She already took 2 AP exams: World History - score 4 and Chemistry - score 5. So your advice is that she should just take some more APs?</p>
<p>I just don’t want dropping IB in her senior year to be viewed as a sign of failure by admission directors.</p>
<p>Well that complicates things since shes a rising senior, I assume? </p>
<p>The IB because its a lot of hard work, money, for relatively little recognition. AP also gives more credits.</p>
<p>It also depends what schools she is aiming for.(Theres that one odd school that is in love with IB like UF) </p>
<p>I don’t think it will make a difference if she replaces those dropped IB classes with AP classes though.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your advice! It was a very hard decision but I finally gave my approval and my daughter dropped full IB and replaced it with AP Physics. She is so much happier and seems a lot more focused on what she needs to get done for senior year. As a parent we sometimes push our kids without thinking of the emotional damage that it can cause. Thanks again!</p>