<p>Which one gives you more points? This is something that has been going in circles inside my head.</p>
<p>I heard IB is just honors first 2 yrs and then it becomes more like AP however I am confused as how that happens as well as how they credit those classes. Any info on this?</p>
<p>What do you mean by "Which one gives you more points?"? </p>
<p>For IB, I think it can vary from school to school. At my school, in grade 10, IB classes are just honours classes. The IB curriculum is covered in grade 10, although not as much as it is in grades 11 and 12. In grades 11 and 12, the classes covers the Alberta curriculum, and the IB curriculum. In grade 12, for the higher level courses, we have to take an extra course (eg. Normally in Alberta, the last course for Chemistry would be Chemistry 30. For IB though, you would have to take one more course, Chemistry 35) </p>
<p>In terms of university credit, for AP I think most universities require you to score 4 or 5 on the AP exam. For IB, I think you have to score 5-7 out of 7 on the IB exam in order to receive credit. </p>
<p>Does that answer your question at all?</p>
<p>Technically the IB program is a 2 year program (99% of the time its grades 11-12), but most schools have a pre-IB program that lasts either one or two years (9th or 9th and 10th).</p>
<p>Usually the pre-IB classes are looked at by colleges as honors-level and the IB classes are looked at by colleges as AP-level.</p>
<p>Oh and CDN was giving you general guidelines about what schools give credit for what scores, because harvard only takes 5s and 7s (incredulous if you ask me, but whatever) so you should visit each school's site to figure out their personal guidelines.</p>
<p>We don't have IB at my school.</p>
<p>both are the same, but if you're in the ib program you're able to get more points because they usually require you to take all ib classes while if you're in a ap class you dont have to take all ap classes and the school usually requires you to take general or honors classes such as p.e and health.</p>
<p>We don't have IB at my school either.</p>
<p>The same, but some schools are different and give more weight to IB because it is an entire set of required courses rather than individual challenges.</p>
<p>I wish my school had IB, but we don't. I would assume IBs would get more weight....</p>
<p>9th and 10th- "Pre-IB"="Pre-AP"=Honors weight</p>
<p>11th and 12th- IB=AP weight
usually</p>
<p>As for points, I guess you mean weighted? Well, it varies. At my school Honors, AP, and IB are all treated the same and are on the same point system, but Pre-IB classes are treated as a regular classes.</p>
<p>I think IB gets more points simply because there are many more requirements in IB than in AP. For AP, you just have to write exams to get your score. For IB, if you are going for an IB diploma, you have to do an extended essay and CAS plus all the internal assessments etc. for regular school work.</p>
<p>Points? No idea what that is but IB is harder than AP.</p>
<p>IB is non-existent in my school, just AP.</p>
<p>So IB and AP=equal points in 11-12th grade meaning there won't be a difference in weight with my transfer.</p>
<p>So let say you get 4 reg, 4.5 H, and 5AP you would get 5 points in IB weighted as well right?</p>
<p>I think this is the feel I got from this thread but not sure. I am asking this because next year I am likely going to transfer from my current high school to another. The other one does NOT have IB but does have AP and since P.E. is only required here 2 years I finished that for good as well as got my required music and art credit so my classes will likely be all academics except for maybe Computer Science if I decide to continue that.</p>
<p>Also my class rank will drop from top 10% to likely around 15% since the school is more competitive and slightly bigger class size meaning probably more people up on the top then currently. I wanted to end with a top 10% at my new school and since that is determined by weighted GPA I was planning my classes in advanced. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the clearing up.</p>
<p>I assume that AP = IB Higher Level (not IB Standard Level) because most top-notch colleges offer credits to IB HL not IB SL.</p>
<p>most top-notch American colleges*</p>