<p>I have 2 questions about IB classes.</p>
<p>1) When a counselor is selecting *most rigorous curriculum *very rigorous curriculum, etc . . . in a school that provides the full ib diploma, what would they rate a student taking 10 ib classes, but not the diploma.</p>
<p>2) What do these classes "translate" to in APs?
IB English SL/HL
IB History of the Americas
IB History of the World
IB Math SL
IB Math Studies</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>1) Probably not most rigorous. Full diploma students went through 4 years of Pre-IB and IB and that’s a lot of persistence and dedication. You also do other stuff than just classes in IB so, really, IB students are working a lot more.</p>
<p>2) </p>
<p>IB English SL/HL – AP English Lit
IB History of the Americas — Somewhat similar to AP American History, but not the same
IB History of the World – AP World History maybe? No idea, never heard of this. My school has IB Contemporary History, which translates into Nothing…
IB Math SL — AP Calculus and Precalc (latter doesn’t have AP but it’s like taking Precalc at college level in junior year)
IB Math Studies — Nothing.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t do the IB Diploma for 4 years, and the additional things full IB students are doing are Extended Essay, CAS, and TOK for 2 years each. I have done all the pre-IB, Honors, AP work.</p>
<p>Would it be a negative when applying to Ivy League colleges to not have the most rigorous mark?</p>
<p>I would be taking:</p>
<p>Junior year:
IB Physics HL
IB English SL
IB Math SL
IB History SL
IB Spanish SL
Orchestra
Science Research</p>
<p>Senior year:
IB Chemistry or IB Biology
IB English HL
AP Calculus
IB History HL
IB Spanish HL
Orchestra
Science Research </p>
<p>Maybe all 3 IB Sciences</p>
<p>^If you’ve done those things then you should have the most rigorous checked off. Depends on your counselor if he considers EE, CAS, and TOK when checking off “most rigorous curriculum.” Best to ask him to make sure. Also depends if non-IB students taking IB classes have to do IAs and orals and world lit 'cause at my school they count as class grades.</p>
<p>And, yes, it would hurt you if you don’t have it checked off as most others would have. To what extent? That answer can only be answered after looking through your whole app.</p>
<p>Taking IB courses and going for the full IB Diploma are completely different in rigor (of course). IB courses can be easy with a lot of busy work or hard with not as much homework. Throw in orals, extended essay, CAS, TOK essay, world lit papers, IAs, and there’s your social life gone (depending on how you manage your time though), but for me, it was worth it, and now my classes are not that bad (still rigorous but not bad to me).</p>
<p>Yes it would be a negative. My school doesn’t have pre-IB either (we have the Middle Years Programme) but I do think not doing full diploma would be seen as less rigorous.</p>
<p>IB English SL/HL - AP English Lang/Lit
IB History of the Americas - AP US History, for the most part. No equivalent for Latin American curriculum.
IB History of the World - Is this 20th century topics? Closest equivalent would be AP World History but that only touches on 20th century.
IB Math SL - AP Calc AB + AP Stats + precalculus
IB Math Studies - algebra, essentially basic math</p>
<p>the full IB diploma is not 4 years. It’s 2. Some schools offer pre IB courses but the program itself is only 2 years.</p>
<p><secret asian=“” man=“”> K looks like our IB schools approach the subjects differently. Our IB History of Americas doesn’t even cover half of the AP American history stuff; it just goes really into detail in some areas.</secret></p>
<p>Our IB English HL is all AP Lit for two years, and if you’re doing SL it’s 1 year of AP Lit. We don’t include AP Stat in our IB Math SL either. AP Lang is a actually a Pre-IB class over here taken in Sophmore year.</p>
<p>But we do have 95% diploma rate.</p>
<p><collegeblur> Our school doesn’t allow non-IB students to enter IB in junior year, so pretty much everyone is forced to go through 4 years of Pre-IB and IB.</collegeblur></p>
<p>A major issue is that due to scheduling conflicts I wouldn’t be able to do Science Research, something I am VERY interested in, if I did full IB. Could my counselor explain this in a letter or something?</p>
<p>@melin720 - Our IB English is completely separate from AP English - the curriculum and everything is all different. For those doing AP they take Lang junior year and Lit senior year, so that’s why I made that comparison but they’re really not that similar. Also, every student does HL English because there’s a four year english requirement for the state anyway.</p>
<p>Regarding history, group 3, if you take SL History you only take 20th Century, and if you take HL History you take 20th Century + History of the Americas. Different schools choose to focus on different areas of History of the Americas (for instance, we focus a lot on US History and Latin American History but don’t cover Canada at all). It doesn’t really matter because you pick only a few questions out of 30 or so to answer so it’s guaranteed there will be several questions on the topic your school covered.</p>