<p>I am in the US equivalant of my junior year now, doing 4 higher level IB subjects including higher maths, studying for my second time SATS, about to do my Extended essays, doing lots of ECs, applying to summer school, and lots of random crap I forgot to mention. I have no social life, never meet my friends outside of school hours, spend everyday and weekends doing schoolwork. I usually sleep at 12:00-12:30 am and wake up at 7.</p>
<p>It seems like omg my life is so busy and hardcore right now and I have not yet even started appying for college yet(shudders at the prospect of senior year).</p>
<p>So tell me undergraduate students with an IB diploma, is college life and workload easier than IB? Cause I cannot imagine anything more difficult or time consuming right now!</p>
<p>IB is a good indication of how busy your college life will be. However, I would never say that IB is harder than college. College is DEFINITELY harder but you will handle the transition much better having come from IB. You will, however, have more free time and more opportunities to meet people. College is way different. You will be busy, but in a different way. You will meet people while doing things. IB is so isolated within the high school that it’s a really restricted experience. </p>
<p>I graduated from IB last year and I’m now a second semester student at The University of Texas at Austin as a Computer Science major. </p>
<p>So yeah if you have any questions feel free to ask.</p>
<p>It seems like, from talking to my roommate, it’s easier to get credit for things from IB than AP. I mean, he said he got like a C in chemisty and a B in physics and he ended up getting credit for both of those two classes here. Where kids in AP have to take the tests and get 5s. I’d much rather just have to pass a course.</p>
<p>Yeah you still have to take and pass an IB exam for credit. However the OP has a point and yes college is harder than IB but I might agree that sometimes IB is more work. There are no IAs in college and the homework is less plus its not always due.</p>
<p>IB is not harder than college, I have even been told at times that AP classes are harder then college courses and for the most part I find it no true. College is definately a lot more stressful and heavy work, never had a IB class but would assume most of what you learn within a class for one year would be taught at a college level within one semester and weighted more.</p>
<p>In high school I took AP classes, not IB. Generally they match the difficulty of my classes, although some are slightly easier (such as English) and a significant amount are much harder (mostly physics type classes, probably because I’m an engineering major).</p>
<p>In what ways? In the difficulty of each course? No, IB is not more difficult than college. Will you have more free time in college? Probably, but that’s simply because you are not being given unreasonable amounts of work that is nothing more than mere memorization and regurgitation.</p>
<p>Yes… and no. Your IB grade is based on a basketed weighting of your exams and your Internal Assesments. The IA’s are done during the school years and the exam is done at the end of the course. The thing about IA’s though, is they are basically very very important pieces of homework. Your normal homeworks and class performance has nothing to do with the IA’s. One can be very good in normal class, but do poorly on the IA’s and hence get a bad grade.</p>
<p>For some courses though, this is different. eg. IB Art had no 'Exam". Instead, your task is to have a meaningful and intelligent discussion with the exminer about the portfolio of artworks you have put together over the course of the 2 years.</p>
<p>At least for me, IB was waaaaay harder than college. Granted, I’m an econ major, and not like engineering or something that’s perceived to be really difficult, but still. I have about a 3.2 GPA right now at a fairly good college, and I do very little work. I could easily do a lot better if I was less lazy.</p>
<p>What WastedxYears said… Ib is like preparing for college. Yes, you can’t imagine the amount of work than what you’re expected. College is even demanding. Project work + exercises + exhibition and deadlines are seriously short. Most of the time you have to study on your own and do more research too. Don’t expect a tutor. And not only go to school but you have to work as well. Tutition is not cheap. Moving on to the next class is not easy. When you retake, you have to pay again Am so scared but I survived 2 terms, you can do it. Now I get it why there’s a term called “college drop-outs” lol.</p>
<p>Probably. Unless you go to a school known for being very difficult like MIT or UChicago or something. Despite the fact that most here have disagreed, I’d say my AP classes in high school were probably harder than most of my college’s, based on what you go in being able to do and what you’re expected to be able to understand in the class.</p>
Am so scared but I survived 2 terms, you can do it. Now I get it why there’s a term called “college drop-outs” lol.</p>