<p>With so many schools offering IB these days, it can not be considered an automatic admission to top schools. However, several State schools provide a great advantage in terms of automatic credits and scholarships when you turn in an IB diploma.
Texas State law provides an automatic credit of 24 credit hours in all State schools (almost an year). University of Nebraska provides a large amount of scholarship money along with similar number of hours credited based on your score in each subject. I have seen flyers from several other schools offering similar benefits (IIT chicago was offering scholarships and credit hours too).</p>
<p>@texaspg
He didn’t apply for any financial aid…lol He didn’t need any.
I did read his Penn supplement and it was all right. Not so “outstanding.” He got into Wharton. Maybe the fact that he visited the campus and his recs were amazing helped him getting in :)</p>
<p>Within Penn, Wharton is the hardest to get into usually and people try to play the game of getting admitted to another school and planning a transfer because they are worried about getting in.</p>
<p>As ctpofthehouse said, it may be serendipity that left him with no other choices!</p>
<p>You didn’t state what your son’s IB score or projected score is. The schools you mentioned want a 38 or higher on the IB. Even though the score is not known until after graduation, the admissions office can project what the score will be based on the standard level AP exams already taken, grades, and scores on other standardized exams.</p>
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MIT, Princeton and most of the Ivies ask most candidates to do local interview. At least they did to all the kids in my town.</p>
<p>Is the UT scholarship for UT Austin or UT Dallas?</p>
<p>… year old thread resucitated by a first time poster…</p>
<p>Oops, I didn’t see that. Maybe OP will come back and tell us what happened? I doubt it, the number of posts is still at 5.</p>