"For decades, many U.S. high schools have offered a range of college-level Advanced Placement courses to allow high achievers to shine above and beyond a standard diploma. But there’s another standard that many schools have adopted: the International Baccalaureate.
‘There has definitely been an uptick of IB diploma programs across the United States, and it is considered the gold standard among college admissions officials,’ says Shellee Hendricks, director of college counseling at the French-American School of New York, in Mamaroneck, which recently began offering the IB diploma." …