<p>David, I really have no interest in science (Biology, Physics, and Chemistry). I will answer any questions you have regarding why I lack this interest. Hopefully this conversation can clear this up for you.</p>
<p>That’s not intentionally meant to sound snarky or sarcastic, but if you are serious about your comment then maybe another perspective might be useful. </p>
<p>Raiderade, for what it’s worth they’ve got U of M wrong also. I don’t know what school of U of M they were trying to look at, but if it’s any of the 3 largest (Literature Sciences and Arts, Engineering, or Business) then they have it wrong.</p>
<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>There are about 35,000 hs in the US; a third cannot be IB. A quick google suggests it’s more along the lines of 1,200 schools in the US that are IB.</p>
and I’d guess we can take that further. The stat was 2% of students were in IB programs … while this was not listed it must be true at schools that have IB programs the % of students in IB programs is much higher than 2% … for now let’s guess it’s something like 10% of students at a school. So if I was then to guess how many schools offer IB programs knowing that 2% of all students are in IB programs I’d guess the % of schools offering IB programs is something less than 0.5% of schools … seems pretty niche to me. That is a statement at this point of time … my impression is IB programs are growing in numbers quickly (at least here in MA) and that over time their presence will grow a lot.</p>
<p>Could be that if any division does not require a given subject, it is marked as “no”, even if there is no division that has the listed combination of “no” subject requirements (i.e. like superscoring, but taking the least favorable subscores).</p>
<p>"Your comment was equivalent to saying that because only 1% of students attend an Ivy,
since you have never heard of Ivy Schools, they are a niche market. "</p>
<p>Well, yeah, duh, LOL. I don’t recall the exact figure, but isn’t it something like only 20% of high school seniors applying to college apply to more than 1 college in the first place? The vast majority of hs seniors in this country take into consideration cost, proximity to home and presence of friends when choosing colleges – and Ivies and other elites are simply not on their radar screen at all (nor should they be - the % of the hs senior population for whom elites <em>should</em> be relevant is small, obviously).</p>
<p>I agree wholeheartedly!! What this dean is effectively doing is to turn college distribution requirements in history into remedial education for what students failed to retain/cover in K-12. Sorry, but that’s not the college’s job IMHO. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, they no longer offer civics courses in most public schools. Moreover, there are even some private/boarding schools…including a few well-respected East Coast ones which allow their students to skip US history/government and Civics completely. </p>
<p>A reason why one college classmate from an East Coast boarding school ended up asking so many basic questions on US history that I ended up having to effectively teach it to him…and I attended <em>gasp!</em> a NYC public magnet school. Many of those questions are such that they betrayed substantial gaps in knowledge of basic US history covered in the curriculum of an average NYC public high school.</p>
<p>All accredited business schools require that 50% or more of courses be outside of the business major, and most have extensive distributional requirements. (My d. at American U. had to fulfill much more in the way of breadth requirements that my Smithie d. did, or than I did at Williams.)</p>