<p>Does the IB diploma or the IB classes you're taking really make a difference in the application, especially to Ivy League? </p>
<p>My Senior Year Classes:
IB Math Methods
IB Biology II
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB English V
IB Physics II
IB Spanish V
IB World Topics (ownage)</p>
<p>er.. can you list them in terms of SL and HL?
IB is regarded as a very rigorous curriculum.. as how its weighed differs from school to school since some school has easy slacky IB and some school have a very stuctured and rigorous program.</p>
<p>IB Math Methods (HL)
IB Biology II (HL)
IB Theory of Knowledge (no test)
IB English V (HL)
IB Physics II (heck no, SL)
IB Spanish V (SL)
IB World Topics (HL)</p>
<p>hmm....bizzare we have no spanish V or science II...its either HL or SL ... n for the langs either A1, A2, or B</p>
<p>and btw, respect for taking four highers!</p>
<p>How can you take Math Methods HL?! Lol that's what I wanted to do until someone told me that you can only take Math HL. What's World Topics about? That seems interesting.</p>
<p>Yeah I also thought Math Methods was only SL, maybe Math Further.</p>
<p>Math hopefully won't be that bad. Now there is a math exam above Higher Level Math Methods (I think called Further Math and u can only take it SL)....now that's crazy!! At our school, the highest score on that exam was like a 5.</p>
<p>wrxstiav-- it's called Further Maths. It's basically self-taught or something. You do all the Maths HL stuff but ALL the options instead of only two.</p>
<p>At our school, there is a class for it. It's basically for those kids who skipped a year of math in their 7th grade year.</p>
<p>nah...you're all confused.</p>
<p>The IB only has these Maths:</p>
<p>Math studies SL
Math methods SL
which has now been eliminated and replaced by
Further mathematics SL
Mathematics HL
Extended mathematics HL</p>
<p>(and that's in order of difficulty)</p>
<p>Mathematics HL is hard enough. You'd have to be insane to take it further.</p>
<p>Wow I actually never heard of Extended mathematics HL. Isn't Math Methods called Math Standard nowadays?</p>
<p>Dunno... I've only heard of:</p>
<p>Math Studies (only SL)
Math Methods (SL and HL)
Further Math Studies (SL)</p>
<p>this bites b/c i heard even if you take SL in a higher level math course..colleges still look at it as SL</p>
<p>Math Methods has not been replaced. I'm a current math methods student.</p>
<p>There's 4 maths you can take. Studies, Methods and HL are the usual three offer. Further Math SL is like A-Level Further Maths. It's higher higher math.</p>
<p>I never thought math methods could be HL. Maybe that means they just have more class time or something.</p>
<p>IzzyJ -- Yeah it's still the same course, just at our school they've started to refer it as "Maths Standard" for some reason. I guess the IB wants to change the name.</p>
<p>If they do that, it starts to get even more confusing. I think of SMH when I think of Math and its level of difficulty. Now I have to think in SSHE? (Or something like.) :(</p>
<p>The IB is already confusing enough. They offer a lot of courses in America that aren't anywhere else- or at least anywhere else I've heard of.</p>
<p>Oh, really?? <em>intrigued</em> Like what? I know most schools I've heard of internationally don't offer Anthropology or Islamic Studies (except the Middle East) or one of the alternate Sciences... Environmental Studies was one? I wish my school offers Psychology. :(</p>
<p>Yeah I've heard of some interesting ones. My school only offers the <em>basics</em>
It's in group 3 that they have some of the weird ones: I've heard of like Peace and Conflict studies, or something like that. So you could take anthropology or psychology instead of history. Strange.</p>