<p>Awesome! Whereabouts in Canada? Also, have you heard anything about admissions officers have lower expectations for international students regarding SAT scores?</p>
<p>I used to live in Calgary. And, I’m not sure about that. If anything, I think you’ll be competing with students that also have applied from Canada or applied as Canadian citizens.</p>
<p>I’ve definitely heard that for the SAT II exams, not sure about SAT’s, though that’s possible. Schools internationally don’t necessarily follow the same curriculum that schools within the US do, so the expectations for the degree of mastery of the material are different.</p>
<p>Hey redboldx, I’m IB too. Nice to see another one of us on this thread. :)</p>
<p>I’m also doing IB. I’m the only kid in my school doing it — I get bussed every morning to the school that hosts the program.</p>
<p>How does the size of your graduating class affect admissions? My class is quite small, 31 people, will that positively or negatively affect my chances? </p>
<p>and dramafox8 and philovitist, havve you guys started stressing over extended essays yet ;)</p>
<p>I did mine in one night. The rough draft, anyway. I’ll revise for the final draft after my advisor’s reviewed it in a similar time frame.</p>
<p>I hate how we can’t be interdisciplinary. My whole schtick is using philosophy and psychology together to solve each respective field’s problems.</p>
<p>Wow. And I thought my IB class was small (15). </p>
<p>I’m zoned for another school, but here we can attend the IB one instead if we can take care of transportation. Several of us would have to leave the school if we dropped out of the program - not that anyone would do that at this point!</p>
<p>I just got over the trauma of doing my biology IA lab report in one weekend. Now I need to tackle my history IA, and then I’m moving on to the EE. </p>
<p>So, have I started stressing? Yes.</p>
<p>AHHH I know! My topic is analyzing Langston Hughes poetry and how the poetic devices used act as a vehicle for the subject of dreams. I hate how there is such a restriction as to what our topics can be, I originally much rather wanted to do my ee on the relationship on the over-lap between jazz poetry and the dominant musical style in Harlem at the time but it was too cross-diciplinary… what are you topics? also, please tell me I am NOT the only one who think the bibliography and citations are a hassle to write</p>
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<p>That’s the same for me, really, except my school provides the transportation, and I’m still a student at the school that provides the transportation.</p>
<p>My class started with 15, but has about 12 now, and 3 of those are already out of the running for the diploma.</p>
<p>It seems that my teachers are very good at planning our IAs. I’m doing the history IA is small segments, with a single part due to the teacher for review every 2-3 weeks. Nice and easy that way, though the paper won’t be.</p>
<p>The real thing that pains me is our Group IV project. I’m having to deal with Juniors who could be a bit more proactive about all of this.</p>
<p>easybib makes citations easy</p>
<p>My topic is the Evolutionary Psychology of Color Preferences.</p>
<p>Psychology is my thing. And philosophy, but there’s no IB Philosophy at my school, so I went with the subject I’d have an advisor for.</p>
<p>the librarian at our school is in charge of “guiding” our bibliographies and whatnot, her hickey-like inflamed ever-present rash on the front of her neck seems to pulsate a brighter shade as the EE deadline approaches…</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish I was doing IB. But it does sound terrible at times.</p>
<p>I’ve never actually met the lady who’s supposed to ensure that we do our EEs. She sends us occasional emails about deadlines, but that’s it…</p>
<p>the group 4 project is at least pass or fail, and it really is such a pain… one of the groups in my school is testing the effects of different shampoos on hair strength, and yes, they are REALLY plucking out their own hairs, the IB version of self-sacrifice LOL</p>
<p>cantconcentrate the IB tests the limits of even the most seasoned procrastinators</p>
<p>My topic is the significance of three characters from A Wrinkle in Time. If you’ve read the book, I’m doing the 3 Mrs. and their purpose separately and together.</p>
<p>My school is weird because it has AP and IB, so lots of my classes are both, and we prep for both tests. It gets quite overwhelming at times, and the guidance for IB things can be kinda sketchy. We do have mentors for the EE, though (but I’ve only met mine once).</p>
<p>I’d’ve stayed with AP if I had known what it was like. It’s not that it’s particularly hard; it’s that the program at my school isn’t as strong as I expected. None of the IB courses I take match the rigor and intellectual excitement that I got from my AP Euro class. I thought having classes that take 1-2 years would mean twice the learning, but it really means slower learning.</p>
<p>The highest math they teach is Studies SL. And the only choice I got to make about my curriculum was between Biology, Physics and Chemistry HL. And colleges like Yale don’t really care about my SL classes, so I’ll either do the AP exams with my IB ones, or not at all. </p>
<p>Since I did IB, I couldn’t take AP Computer Science or our district’s new Chinese course or continue my most important extracurricular for Senior Year.</p>
<p>If I don’t get into Yale, the mistake I’ll reflect about the most will be my choice to do IB.</p>
<p>I’m studying for the SAT2 Math 1 subject test which I’m taking this sat. this will be the second time I’ve taken it, any advice ? (:
the thing i’ve noticed is that though I’ve done over 10 practice tests and consistently scored over 750, when I took the real one a few months ago it seemed like the caliber of the questions had changed. Also, the curve for the math 1 is less forgiving, so I can only make max 4-5 mistakes…please tell me ya’lll have advice for that</p>