<p>Just heard from my D that she will receive her IB Diploma. She managed a score of 35 which we are all extremely pleased with - makes the last 4 years worth it :)</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone else receiving their results today.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter! I wish there was an IB board the way there are SAT and AP boards. My D will be entering an IB program this fall and we aren’t sure about which subjects she should choose (ie. whether it matters which social studies and science subjects she chooses, whether she should continue Spanish if she already has a 5 on AP Spanish language or start a new language, and which ones she should take HL or SL).</p>
<p>Many universities are accepting HL courses as first year equivalents and giving second year placements. The IBO website “[International</a> education - The International Baccalaureate offers high quality programmes of education to a worldwide community of schools](<a href=“http://www.ibo.org%5DInternational”>http://www.ibo.org) " has a section with university acceptance policies from around world where you can check out your target colleges/universities. Same goes for college program prerequisites for your choice of science or social sciences courses, each college will have prerequisites. You are supposed to take one course from each of the six groups. You can drop an art to take a second science (many universities want Chemistry/Physics or Chemistry/Biology) Many students choose to take the second science in a summer course to be able to keep film, art, drama or music in their curriculum because of a passion for it. The content of a HL may not be any more difficult, but spending 240 hours on a HL course compared to 150 hours in SL you definitely go deeper into the subject. This is where tailoring the IB to your D begins, choosing courses to her strengths and interests.
Depending on what other languages your D has taken she may want to do a bilingual diploma in Spanish, or take an “ab initio” language offered by her school, to do this though she cannot have taken any previous classroom instruction in the language”.
Congrats to Floridalady - 35 equates to well over a 90% average in Canada and would likely give her second year standing at McGill University which treats the IB as a first year equivalent. 90% is their first year arts cut off.</p>
<p>Floridalady thanks for the reminder to go check, D is at the Congressional Academy and I forgot (major pulmbing issues here, so I get a pass on that one!).<br>
She’ll be happy with her scores, a 5 and a 6 on her first two tests. So happy for her!</p>
<p>Apollo6 I’d recommend a long conversation with the IB co-ordinator at her school. At D’s school some courses are offered every year, some not. There is a huge effort to co-ordinate with AP classes, especially for SL courses (many colleges don’t offer credit for SL, but will for AP). Check into which period things like choir are offered, to see what scheduling conflicts may/maynot exist.</p>
<p>D took English, History, Physics, Maths (Calculus), Biology and Spanish IB exams and I think with a 35 it will give her Sophamore standing at Rollins.</p>
<p>Apollo6 your D’s IB guidance teacher should be able to help with her selections</p>
<p>Congrats! My dd got her diploma but only a 30 score. Still good enough and she got credit for her HLs and will for other AP classes she took.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D momof3greatgirls! That’s a great score!</p>