<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Has anyone here taken five HLs? What tortures did you use to persuade office to allow you do that?</p>
<p>I want to take 5 HLs too. One person I know has done it, but not at my local IB. My IB coordinator won't let me do it.</p>
<p>Are you a diploma candidate or are you trying to get 5 HL certificates? I think that for a diploma candidate, no more than 4 can be HL exams. So you would still need 2 SL exams.
But if you are trying to get five certificates, try taking 2 one year and three the other.
Why do you want to do this? Why not have a life instead?</p>
<p>I'm planning to be a diploma candidate. I want to get 5 HLs just because I love those classes that are offered (I'm lucky, eh? :)) and want to have some challenge(not for college, for myself) :)</p>
<p>Edit: But I won't die if I'll get four HLs, I'm curious how it's possible to get five HLs.</p>
<p>What do you have for ECs?
All academics and no ECs make for a bland applicant.</p>
<p>My daughter just got her diploma. She had all honors and some AP courses freshman and sophomore year and played two sports. Junior year: IB + two sports = burned out kid because spring playoffs went almost to IB testing. Senior year: 3 HLs + fall sport + spring musical which was in early April = much happier kid with good ECs and an IB diploma.</p>
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What do you have for ECs?
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- Was in freshman Football last year but won't participate this year (fin. issues ).
- Wrestling (JV last year and most probably varsity this year; I won the spot but there were some things that didn't allow me to be in lineup last year)
- Open-source programming (wonder if that qualifies as EC), moderator on several programming forums, working for local laboratory as programmer.
- Currently spamming potential mentors for lab place in physics lab for science competitions, ahahaha, should include that, 'Spamming professors' as EC! :D</p>
<p>hehe thats funny =P</p>
<p>Well, at my school, there's been lots of people who've taken 5 or even 6 HLs just for the extra certificate. Talk to your IB coordinator. I personally wouldn't do it because it's just extra work and I've already taken the APs for the classes so I already have the college credit. I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad though.</p>
<p>mr.chipset one of my freidsn that's a freshmen won the Captain spot. He beat the captain\ who's going to be a senior.</p>
<p>^ what's the point of that post?</p>
<p>i think i'm taking 5 or 6 hl ib's and 2 more sl ib's and i also took 1 sl ib last year. they're easy if you know the material (the hard part)</p>