<p>My daughter is going to be a junior in this coming school year. She currently attends an overseas American School, and is going to be in the IB Diploma program. After graduation, she is going back to the States to attend university. The school graduation requirement is that all American citizens (which she is) take US History. However, those in the IB Diploma program do not need to fulfill this requirement. I have talked to both the IB/AP coordinator and her counselor about US History and American universities; while her counselor says that she should still take US History to keep her college options open, the coordinator believes that she will be fine without US History (since she has taken Asian Humanities, Western humanities, and will be taking IBSL/IBHL Psychology, which fulfills the 3 yrs. history and social science requirement for most universities)
Is US History a necessary course for my daughter?</p>
<p>no, not at all! i'm an international student who never took US history, not in high school nor in college. it wasn't even offered in my school, so i guess it's not necessary.</p>
<p>Your daughter may have to take a US History class while she is in college in order to graduate, depending on where she matriculates, but she should not need it to be admitted. </p>
<p>On another note, it sounds like you are certain that your daughter will graduate from the high school she now attends. If there's any chance that you may have to move before she finishes at her current school, then she may end up in a high school where U.S. History is mandatory for graduation. But if you're sure she'll finish up where she is now, it sounds like she's fine as is. (I just tossed out that warning because I used to teach in American schools overseas, and I had students who were uprooted in the middle of school years when a parent was transferred to a new job or company unexpectedly.)</p>