<p>My teacher told me that taking all IB and getting the IB Diploma would pretty guarantee my accpetance at any college I want plus a good ACT score and good grades. Is this true?</p>
<p>Nope she lied. Was it April fools day?</p>
<p>In my opinion it depends… In the UK it certainly holds true! It is very easy to receive conditional offers, but these are consequently very difficult to achieve. I was predicted 42 with 7,6,6 at HL (Maths, Econ, German) and with a reasonable personal statement and decent recommendations (weak IGCSEs though) easily received an LSE offer three weeks after I applied (didn’t apply to oxbridge) with 38 points and 7,6,6 for Econometrics. I missed the offer with 41 points and 6,6,6 and was consequently told I was likely to be rejected tomorrow when A-levels come out. </p>
<p>HOWEVER</p>
<p>In the US there are just to many other factors that weigh in, as to say the IB gets you into any school, so I agree with GAC1107. It depends where you want to go to university, nonetheless personnel responding to a question at a columbia information session said a 40+ diploma is a prestigious credential and provides more than enough proof that the applicant can handle a demading workload (as quoted elsewhere this is even more important for internationals).</p>
<p>Can you help me understand your statement:</p>
<p>"I was predicted 42 with 7,6,6 at HL (Maths, Econ, German) and with a reasonable personal statement and decent recommendations (weak IGCSEs though) easily received an LSE offer three weeks after I applied (didn’t apply to oxbridge) with 38 points and 7,6,6 for Econometrics. I missed the offer with 41 points and 6,6,6 and was consequently told I was likely to be rejected tomorrow when A-levels come out. "</p>
<p>So it was more important to get at least one 7, even with a lower total score (38) than three 6’s, with a higher total score (41)? Between your predicted grades, and your actual grades, you only lost one point, but that was enough for them to rescind their offer? Wow, amazing… I would have thought they would look at the total score, not just the insistance on at least one 7 in HL.</p>
<p>Yup, this is the arrogance of the powerful. I myself and my teachers and my counsellor tried to appeal and move mountains…unsuccessful. They sent additional feedback from the IB (Maths HL Paper 2 was the lowest scoring paper in the past 20 years) as well as my Extended Essay which received 100%. Still the entitlement to the university place was deemed unrightful. </p>
<p>The problem lies in the fact that LSE is the most competitive school in the world. For courses such as Law, there as much as 28 people competing for a single place. The UCAS system just does not allow enough personality and information to be conveyed in order to provide an accurate picture of the applicant (Seriously, the recommendations are always positive and all the personal statement says is “I am the best because of this and this”). So, if one misses his offer there are probably 15 other people that can be taken instead. I am not a big fan of the English education system and didn’t want to go there anyway, but I wanted to have a backup in case something goes wrong with the US apps. Well, messing with the wrong crowd I guess</p>
<p>Reverting to the OP, see…literally you don’t get into any school by simply doing the IB. However, I can only advise you to enroll if you are seeking challenging courses and demanding workloads. It is as rewarding as it is prestigious. As an anecdote, last year a Korean student at our school achieved 45 points with 4 HLs and this year got unconditionally into King’s College, Cambridge as well as every other school in the U.S. he applied to. However, you can imagine the difficulty in achieving this by realizing that only approx. 30 students out of 120,000 students gain such a score. The numbers for 44,43,42+ are not much higher, it is tough 
^^</p>
<p>Getting an IB diploma definitely does not guarantee you. </p>
<h1>1. You don’t get your diploma after you matriculate to a college. WHOMP</h1>
<h1>2. You don’t finish taking all of your IB exams until after you learn about your college acceptances and rejections (essentially you can fail all of them and the college doesn’t care because they already rejected or accepted you).</h1>
<p>pretty much college don’t even know if you were successful in getting your diploma.</p>
<p>Hey, i’m stuck between doing that myself. I actually asked a question. Waiting anxiously for a response…</p>