Thanks for all this info everyone. I am raising the issue with the IB Director at our school. We are definitely seeing harder grading crtieria used in the IB even compared to AP. If that continues their new IB Program will remain very small. My D absolutely loves learnindg and would prefer to not focus on grades and GPAs but as long as college admissions are what they are she doesn’t have much of an option. Nonetheless she will continue with the Program b/c it’s already too late to turn back. My younger D will think twice!