Is the International Baccalaureate Diplomma Programme Worth It?

If she wants to go abroad then it is definitely worth it. I did the IB myself and I would not have been admitted to the UK University I attend without it...

I have no idea in terms of schools in the US...

 

Once she gets her college degree none of this stuff matters.


Also, this thread is irrelevant without a picture.



DD - loser of a sig bet.

 

Weird, that's exactly what I had done in high school. I was in the IB program but found myself in a jam over the extended essay, so I dropped the diploma aspect and collected the individual diplomas instead. I don't know if it hurt my college aps (I did go to University of Chicago in the end), and my college wasn't giving credit for IBs anyway. But, I regretted the hell out of it afterward anyway. The TOK class is no big deal -- the only thing I spared myself was the paper, which was something I had to re-address in college anyway. Besides, the work of the paper is nothing compared to the studying I did for the IB tests. I should have sucked it up and stuck with the program (if nothing else, to just not be a wuss). I think the reason I didn't was because I had insufficient support on doing a research paper. If the similarity holds true, you may want to see if the problem is that, since that is addressable. And, like I said, I was later forced to do research papers in college, so I may as well have learned the ropes in highschool.