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Originally posted by MRL180YTL2002
IB is the International Baccalaureate program. Schools are evaluated before they are permitted to start to offer the program. IB is the last two years of high school and culminates in the extended essay (1500 words), internal and external examinations (external = tests rated a 1 to 7 unlike AP 1-5, internal - teacher evaluates your work) and a bunch off stuff too complicated to explain here. Its a world recognized program started by diplomats. Why? Because the children of diplomats shifted from assignment to assignment and when they went back to the mother country they could not go on to college. The reasoning was they didn't have a high school diploma or its equivalent in that country. If you get the IB diploma (what the program's all about) by meeting the various requirements, you can attend out of high school, ANY college or university in the world as they would accept the IB diploma as the equivalent of one from a school in their country. To go to a college overseas, like OXFORD in England, you need a college degree first. IB and AP are like we hate one another but colleges look better on IB as it is a very vigorous program. The workload is much heavier than AP in that the requirements differ. But some parts of IB are in the dark ages....the PURE pesudocode for IB computer science is pascal with a few changes. Now who remembers programming in Pascal?????
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BTW, IB doesn't get you that much...I'm in it at one of the top schools for it. BTW your extended essay is at least 3200 words, but believe as you may. The workload isn't that bad...but then again its all what you put into it. AP and IB don't hate each other, you can get credit for both. Since I know you are in FL, you know you automatically get in UF or FSU with decent grades but those are the few schools that do that....
oh well
/me starts work on Theatre Paper