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Originally posted by JocelynC
Alum, I don't know about other schools, but I know at mine, everyone couldn't take an AP course. They had to have taken a certain sequence of classes in the subject (and passed with B's or better) and have guidance counselor approval to get in.
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It was that way at my school, too. To take AP English, for example, you had to have taken Honors English I, II, and III
or I suppose you could've gotten in if you had been in college-prep English but your counselor approved it but I never saw anyone do that.
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*They also don't do the 5 credit A's that AP classes do. An A in an IB doesn't boost your GPA like an A in an AP class does. AP classes, if you're smart, can get your GPA ABOVE a 4.0 easily.
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One of the primary reasons I don't like the AP program is this--these classes can sometimes end up making intelligent students feel dumb because they don't get A's...even if they deserve them. It all depends on who the teacher is. There was a guest professor who came to work with one of my graduate classes last semester, and she basically said the same thing. AP classes should be challenging, but not impossible...unfortunately, sometimes they are.
I don't know anything about the IB program, so I can't comment on that.