<p>First of all, i live in North Carolina and want to go to UNC-Chapel Hill. I'm a sophomore at an IB school, but I want to go to the Career Center to take AP courses and classes at the community college instead. Will that hurt me attending an IB school but going somewhere else to take AP classes when I could be taking IB classes but taking AP exams also. BUut doing that seems like so much more work. I currently have a 3.2 unweighted gpa and 3.7 weighted gpa. My rank is 45/343. I think I'm the only rising junior at my school doing AP instead. If i take IB my classes will be IB Math Studies, IB English, IB Psychology, Honors US History, IB Theory of Knowledge, Spanish 3, and Honors Chemistry. If i do AP my classes will be AP English Lang, AP US History, AP Psychology, Spanish 3, Honors Chemistry and Physics and I may still be able to take IB Math Studies so I can get the IB certificate if my guidance office don't trip. For some reason my school won't let anyone take AP & IB mixed because "it doesn't make any sense". But if I don't get Math Studies I will do PreCalculus Honors. Also with AP I will do online college classes which will also go to my GPA. Right now I'm stuck with that AP schedule but my main concern is whether or not that is just as good as IB. I hear that with IB all you have to do is get a C and your guaranteed to get into your choice of school, although no offense to AP because that applies as well. I'm better at English and History than math anyway & i want to get as many college credits as I can and IB doesn't really guarantee that at UNC hardly ever. I know just as many people who got accepted into UNC who took Ib as i do who took AP. I even know some who just 1 or 2 AP or IB and got into Wake on a full scholarship. I just want to know is my AP or IB schedule good enough for UNC and Wake Forest to accept me and also what kind of ECAs and Community service i should be involved in because I will do anything to get into Chapel Hill.& Would it be too hard to get a tennis scholarship or some kind of athletic scholarship?Just please somebody anser some of my questions because I've been switching my schedule back and forth for the past month worrying am i making the right decision?</p>
<p>hmm, that is a tough one, but coming from and out of state student who is currently doing the full IB diploma program and was accepted to UNC chapel hill first decision deadline and wake forest, honestly, I think IB is worth it. It’s a TON of work, but I really think it helped me get into college. Also, I think I will be well prepared for college work because of IB. Since IB is big at your school, it is probably even better than mine, since we are the first graduating IB class (just started last year the IB program at my school), so we were the guinea pigs. I would suggest doing it, there are many people I know who did AP and were happy with that choice, but if you have a strong IB school and you take the most rigorous classes offered there, it’s going to look really good on your behalf. good luck whatever you choose though, I was literally back and forth between AP and IB until the very last day we could sign up, and I was like what the heck, I’ll do it, and I did & don’t regret it :)</p>
<p>ps. that’s awesome you have IB psychology, I would have done anything for that class! and math studies! 
we only have SL and HL offered.</p>
<p>OP, are you from Winston-Salem, by chance?</p>
<p>Don’t have to answer me publicly, you can just shoot me a PM if you prefer</p>
<p>yes i am do you know me or something?</p>
<p>No, but I’m from Winston-Salem too. Most people I know that go to UNC that came from the IB program in Winston-Salem ended up dropping it in favor of Career Center. That was several years ago though. From what I’ve seen and heard, the quality of teaching at Career Center has gone down as some of the older (and “famous”) teachers are retiring and others are jumping ship because the school board seems to be giving less and less support to the AP program at the Career Center and are trying to control the way teachers teach their classes (for instance, most teachers used to grade on a ten point scale, similar to what you might see in a college classroom, but several years ago the school board tried to strongarm AP teachers to adjusting to a 7 point scale, not giving any consideration to the fact the material taught in classes such as AP Physics and AP Calculus are 10x harder than the material you’d see in any other high school classroom). Although if you go to CC, having a travel period and being able to interact with students from other schools is always nice. :D</p>
<p>i also wouldn’t like to take ib because my senior yr i could do dual enrollment at forsyth tech that way i could get a head start on college classes. but then again most of my friends are doing ib. honestly i think career center is too much of a hassle because im not sure if i would have a car & i really dont want to ride the CC bus. if i could change my schedule back to ib i would so i could focus on school as well as ECAs more because i hardly take any.</p>