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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. For example: For AP Calculus, you had to have taken Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus 1 before you could take AP.
I went to a school with both an IB program and AP options. I looked into both, and I chose to just take AP courses for a number of reasons:
*IB classes don't allow you to earn the college credit that AP courses do.
*IB courses aren't as widely recognized and highly regarded by universities as AP coursework is.
*IB courses aren't as representative of what college coursework is really like. Unlike AP, which is developled by The College Board to reflect as closely as posssible the workload of a college course.
*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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Thanks for the info - I'd never even heard of IB classes until this year, but I'm a big fan of the AP curriculum. I went through it my last two years of high school, and it was very good in getting ready for college.
I didn't realize that people were just put into the program in some places; for my school, you had to be recommended by your teacher from the previous year in the same subject (i.e., your sophomore history teacher had to recommend you for AP history).