<p>^you are do not understand what you are citing and are wrong. Oxford makes conditional offers that force you to achieve a minimum of between 38 and 40 on your IB, meaning if you’re a pro athlete and have moved the earth in high school, but you’re an IB student, they won’t let you in unless you get a 38-39, empirically Oxford, Cambridge and Ivy league take scores which are much higher. usually 42-45/45. I went to an IB school which had great college placement, we had statistics going back many years. Columbia has never taken a single person from my school with below a 38/42 which is approximately equal to 40/45. My school distinctly focused on being all rounded so we weren’t cookie cutter nerds. The trend was exactly the same for all the other Ivies. Cornell, Dart and Brown had never taken someone with less than a 37/42 and HYP 39/42.</p>