<p>I'm /was/ headed for the pre-IB program in high school in about two weeks, but yesterday I found out that my school doesn't offer Math HL or Physics HL. </p>
<p>I looked at some university admission requirements for IB, and most of them recommend Math HL. </p>
<p>Some people told me that there isn't much hope for me if I only have SL math, even though the courses I'm interested in, like Life Science, just require the basic grade 12 ontario curriculum courses in math and Bio/Chem(which I can take in HL)</p>
<p>I just want to know if the difference between Math and Physics HL and SL is so great as to bar me from pretty much 70% of the courses in university, not taking into account other factors.</p>
<p>For the record, I was looking at Waterloo, University of Toronto, McGill, and University of Western Ontario.</p>
<p>Registration is in about a week. So it's kind of tight. </p>
<p>Actually, not having Math HL as a result of your school will not bar you from anything...it is not your fault that your school does not have the class. I know someone that goes to Mcgill and did not take ap calculus in high school, but rather ap statistics, and was able to attend Mcgill.</p>
<p>the thing is, i actually want to go to ib, for the challenge, but my parents are somehow convinced that going to ib is actually going to make my choices in terms of courses and jobs later on extremely limited.</p>
<p>You should be fine for those universities if you can't take Math/Physics HL. If your school doesn't offer it, admissions usually won't hold it against you as they should have your school course list. </p>
<p>If you're worried, I'd suggest trying to contact a couple of IB grads from your high school who are in the programs you're interested in. Alternatively you could call admissions. </p>
<p>If it's truly a problem, I'm sure you can take the regular Calculus and Vectors university preperation course (from the Ontario curriculum) at a summer/night school offered by your board.</p>
<p>Hope that helps! Some of my friends in IB (in Mississauga) had a lot of trouble with IB classes they were interested in not being offered... sometimes they ended up just supplementing their education with additional summertime courses, or doing extracurricular activities related to their interests and self-studying some sort of AP.</p>
<p>From my daughter's experience in a US high school going to a US university -- she felt that HL Math/Physics were important for a future math/engineering major, not her career path. Her HL classes were English, Biology and Spanish.</p>
<p>I think you should pick you HL subjects based on your interests and future plans.</p>