05-29-2003, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2003, 09:49 PM by soccerguy315.)
Occhi...
you went to Herndon? Hmm... here I am, now attending South Lakes, it's a small world. I also immediately  noticed the high number of schools from fairfax county. I believe the household income in the county now is around $100,000. I honestly have no idea where our teachers live, well, actually I do, many of them ilve in Loudoun County. I am enrolled in the IB Diploma, so I know how much work it is... I believe there's about 45-50 candidates at my school, a number which should drop before graduation
EDIT: I now see it says they don't measure schools who have more than half their students admitted through a testing process.
I'd also like to say that I am "enjoying" the IB program, if you can call it that, although we already took our IB Calc Exam, yet my math teacher is still teaching, and just assigned us 350-400 problems for next week... I don't think many people will do them, especially since most people in my class are seniors and already know where they are going. The IB program is much more writing intensive than AP, as you have to write for everything, including Math. The foreign language exams also include oral parts, as does English. And there is no multiple choice on most of the IB Exams, the only exception i know of is that Chemistry has 1 section of multiple choice, most IB tests also consist of 3 sections...
/end rant about how [imho] ib is more work yet earns less college credit.
you went to Herndon? Hmm... here I am, now attending South Lakes, it's a small world. I also immediately  noticed the high number of schools from fairfax county. I believe the household income in the county now is around $100,000. I honestly have no idea where our teachers live, well, actually I do, many of them ilve in Loudoun County. I am enrolled in the IB Diploma, so I know how much work it is... I believe there's about 45-50 candidates at my school, a number which should drop before graduation
EDIT: I now see it says they don't measure schools who have more than half their students admitted through a testing process.
I'd also like to say that I am "enjoying" the IB program, if you can call it that, although we already took our IB Calc Exam, yet my math teacher is still teaching, and just assigned us 350-400 problems for next week... I don't think many people will do them, especially since most people in my class are seniors and already know where they are going. The IB program is much more writing intensive than AP, as you have to write for everything, including Math. The foreign language exams also include oral parts, as does English. And there is no multiple choice on most of the IB Exams, the only exception i know of is that Chemistry has 1 section of multiple choice, most IB tests also consist of 3 sections...
/end rant about how [imho] ib is more work yet earns less college credit.