<p>I could really find how many students take some courses. IRCC (I’m not going to look for it again) there were about 12,000 IB schools in the country. Which means on average only 5 or 6 students per school are graduating students with IB diplomas.</p>
<p>I agree that it’s annoying that your choice is often killer courses or dumb ones. I took a real Physics course many years ago as it was required for grad school - there were two big problems with it. One was that it was full of pre-meds, but the second one was that they had designed the curriculum basically assuming that you’d learned some things in the standard Chem course pre-meds took that I had not. I’d been doing very well until I hit that part of the course. I did fine, but not as well as I had hoped.</p>