<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>My kid only got predict IB grade 34/42, two 6 on HL subjects, two 6s on SL and the rest are 5s. SAT is 2100, with this low grade, can he apply within top 40s university?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>He can apply wherever he likes.</p>
<p>Thanks Mini, is he grade consider very low for any top 50s university?</p>
<p>American universities do not make admissions decisions based on your predicted IB scores. UK universities do.</p>
<p>The IB final score is July of senior year. Most kids have been admitted already. 24 is a passing grade.</p>
<p>I don’t think that American universities even receive the predicted IB scores of American IB students.</p>
<p>My daughter was in an IB diploma program in the United States, and she never even knew what her predicted score was. And the universities she applied to did not ask for it.</p>
<p>But if your son is in an IB school in another country and is applying to American universities, the situation might be different.</p>
<p>Sure they receive your scores. If you are getting credit for the HL courses you need to submit them to the college. If you have also declared yourself an IB Diploma candidate when applying to schools, you have to prove you completed the diploma.</p>
<p>Otherwise, what would prevent a student from not completing the diploma?</p>
<p>^^ If we’re talking about admissions, senior year scores don’t matter (unless admission is conditional upon a certain score). During the normal admission season, colleges will only have scores for the tests taken in junior year, which is one more thing that contributes to the junior-year pressure cooker.</p>
<p>No, it is stated earlier IB scores are released July of Senior year, after a student graduates and has been admitted. Then they are submitted. Or, that was the case with my children.</p>
<p>If you claim to be an IB candidate, you have to prove you passed all the tests, and completed the Diploma. I know of one student who didn’t and his admission was rescinded.</p>
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<p>This may happen at some universities. It does not happen at others.</p>
<p>My daughter claimed (correctly) that she was an IB diploma candidate when she applied to college, and her high school confirmed it. When she received her IB scores and diploma in July, she also received instructions on how to submit her scores to her college. But her college had not asked for them, and she recognized that she would not get any additional advanced placement or credit for her IB scores beyond what she was already receiving because of AP scores. So she didn’t send the IB scores or any proof that she had completed her diploma to her college. She figured that if they wanted it, they would ask for it.</p>
<p>They never asked for it. </p>
<p>She has since enrolled in, attended, and graduated from that university, and to this day they have no record of whether or not she earned the IB diploma.</p>
<p>D2 is an IB candidate. We will be meeting with her GC next week, I will ask if the will be reporting her predicted IB scores. When we met with her teachers last year, they told us that if she was an A to A+ student, she would automatically have highest predicted score for that class.</p>
<p>My D was never asked for predicted scores or asked for proof of diploma after receiving it, in fact her HS never even gave them a prediction. How exactly would that work? Do the teachers pull a Karnak? (sp)</p>
<p>Some top universities actually do require predicted scores. They expect them to be 6/7</p>
<p>we are international student in a IB program school, school just issued a predicted grade based on their first year’s IB study. we were told US university will based on SAT scores and predicated grade, last few years school transcript and their EA to decide our application for fall 2012.</p>
<p>If a student messed up his first year’s IB courses will lead his chance to get into good college?</p>
<p>New IB parent here – do all students expect to earn the IB diploma? It seems that there is a lot of value to the program, even if you don’t receive the diploma. My d will probably attend an in-state college (cost is major determinate here) so I’m not sure IB will make much of a difference for acceptanace. What are the drawbacks to participating in IB but not getting the diploma? </p>
<p>BTW, my D says that if she is going to do all the extra work, she better get the diploma!</p>
<p>The IB diploma is awarded to students who gain at least 24 points. get at least a 4 for each subject.</p>
<p>Students doing the full IB diploma actually receive TWO diplomas -the regular diploma from their high school and the IB diploma. In the schools I am familiar with (overseas and in the US), students receive grades, report cards, and transcripts that are completely separate from their IB diploma scores. Two separate things.</p>
<p>So, it is certainly possible to apply to a US university, claim to be an IB student, send the high school transcript, send test scores and be admitted - based on the regular high school record. The main reason for “proving” the IB diploma was earned is if the student wants to receive credit for the IB courses taken. Otherwise - it doesn’t matter. </p>
<p>Obviously, there may be some schools who insist on getting the final IB scores and may even require a minimum score to be achieved, but I would think this would all be spelled out in the admissions info.</p>
<p>In fact, kids do not get their admission to US universities revoked because of low IB scores. If their grades in school are low, that is another story. But, the reason that kids want to do well on their final IB exams is for their own personal honor and because at some schools you get credit for IB Higher exam scores. In this sense, IB exams taken the end of the senior year are no different than AP exams taken the end of senior year. I know kids who got into top LAC’s (AWS) and then had very mediocre IB scores (low to mid 30’s)- they still got their IB diploma, but certainly they did not perform up to their potential… and this was not a factor in their matriculating at these schools…</p>
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<p>The high school’s honor is also a factor. My daughter’s high school prides itself on having 90+% of its IB students receive the IB diploma. In the year she graduated, it was 100%. This is a big selling point for the high school and the whole school district.</p>
<p>For sure, and this is one of my biggest objections to the IB program. I think the IB program is not for every student, in fact, not for many. But, at the schools where I live where most of the schools are IB schools (International location), kids are kicked out in 9th and 10th grade if they are not going to do well enough to get the IB diploma- including kids who have been at a given private school since Kindergarten. </p>
<p>To me this is an absolute contradiction to the stated notion that IB is somehow such a superior program in terms of sensitizing kids to the needs of the world… at least as this is interpreted in the schools locally.</p>