IS IB WORTH IT? | Pros, Cons, & Advice

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Is International Baccalaureate the right choice for you? I successfully went through the IB program in middle school and high school, while taking AP classes alongside my IB ones. After receiving my IB Diploma and getting into college, I am ready to share the knowledge of what I wish I would have known before doing IB. The positives, the negatives, and valuable advice - stay tuned for all the info!

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I’m beyond grateful I took IB if I’m being honest. I love the community and once I got used to the work, it became so so so much better!!

breaker
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As a senior who’s in IB I honestly wouldn’t suggest it if you care about your mental health. The process for getting the Diploma is very stressful and the workload can be too much at times, if you are considering talk to ppl who are currently taking it and don’t be dumb like me who chose it for funnies

akiraweebs
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The reality of IB:
I’m an IB student in junior year, and let me tell you the pros and cons vary between school to school.
Some more established schools have better resources to guide you. While other newer schools have more technology.
I am a mostly A student even within IB and these resources definitely pushed me to do better in my schooling. I am doing AP honors and duel enrollment on top of IB program and it is definitely a struggle. My trajectory is predicting I’ll be done with 2 years of college because of this. However your not required to do this much.
Also keep in mind that you will be stuck with the same 150 people (the number will go down as people drop) for THE NEXT 4 YEARS. This is a blessing and a curse. You must deal with people that you hate on a daily basis, however you get to be with your friends daily as well. If you are one to burn bridges or have nasty breakups you are in for a shock.

If the essays are intimidating you, you shouldn’t be too worried about them. You have lots of guidance when writing them. If the workload is the thing that is intimidating you, be prepared it is worse than anything you can imagine. If you procrastinate you will make it through however you may have high blood pressure from all the stress. It’s a lot I’m not going to sugar coat it.

My honest advice:
If your on the fence try IB freshmen year. If you hate it, drop quick. If you get to the end of sophomore year and you’re struggling/regretting it, drop. There is NO SHAME in dropping IB. Most upper class men would even congratulate you from dropping because you avoided further struggling. Once your in Junior year your into deep. If you drop the program past Junior year it’s like all the bone breaking work went to waste. You get experience I suppose but experience in high school won’t get you into college. Another thing to consider is your career. You don’t have to figure everything out now but do you even want to go to college? Or do you want to go to trade school? Lastly, are you able to cooperate with people you hate? Trust me this was the only thing that I was not mentally prepared for when entering IB. I thought all 150 of us would be BFFs for ever. SIKE! it’s like the hunger games in IB. All the individual sects of people working against eachother, and gossiping. Everyone knows EVERYONES dirt. If you have a rough break up, half the school will take your side the other your ex’s. And the whole school will jump from drama to drama every week or so. There is more drama in IB then the traditional program.

Well good luck to all of the potential IB students who are reading this! Feel free to ask me questions if you need it :D

lizzynothere
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I’m a high schooler and I’m in the IB diploma program and on my last year and my honest answer is NO, mostly because it’s entirely based on a series of domino effects meaning if your not good at one thing you won’t get your diploma, If your not good at speaking French you Fail, not good at Advanced Biology you fail, your not good in Advanced Math then you fail, if your good in everything except one you automatically fail, not to mention IAs for every single class and if you fail 1 you fail them all, and not to mention cast hours for community service, good luck finding reliable ones during a pandemic and you fail anything you fail everything so don’t take it seriously, getting into IB was honestly the worst mistake I made because now I’m trapped and can’t escape do me a favor and just take all honors, Maybe an AP or 2, and don’t look back

mikeclarke
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If your considering IB, just look at how they tackled the COVID-19 situation in different countries. If that satisfies you, then go for it. That is all from me.

oliverxxxxxx
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Thank you for the vid, I'm a sophomore rn and i have to choose whether to do ib or ap for my junior and senior year and ive been doing a lot of research, my sister did ib and she was extremely stressed her junior year and she graduated and is in college now, but she doesn't recommend it u less you are going for highly advanced classes and majors in college.

king.kthebest
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Wow I’ll make sure to tell my kids to watch this video !

ryannguyen
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On the last bit of the video here are some questions you can ask the colleges/universities you’re interested in. Just putting here if you need it :)

Will you accept credits in I.B.? Do you look at I.B. as the same status as A.P. or a bit above/below? Where do you fall with your guidelines regarding students who are in I.B. and A.P. programs in high school entering college? Is Academic accepted for [ ] Grade [ ] at a [ ] level?
([ ] = specific questions regarding classes and grades, etc.)

thatpomodorokid
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I'm in my first MYP year and it's getting really scary for me, but then I look at what are Polish schools like and it's also not what I'd want for myself. I guess that keeps me going in here. I also want to move out of the country, and I guess IB will help me with that

magdam
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Very informative, great quality. Leaving a like and keep it up

patriksivak
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It's not for everybody.
Our kids Elementary charter school, turned IB from one year to the next without the parents even knowing .
It's very stressful for kids and parents.
They have soo much homework. Recess is taken away so they can squeeze more computer work on kids. They are over loaded with pressure.
When will they have time to be kids!
Education is great. But its not everything there is to life.

amm
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If you were to redo high school would you make the same decision or would you do AP instead?

ellayancey
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This was very informative! I'm starting the IBDP this week, however, what resources have online ap classes that give me credit ?

rituanand
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hi im currently in grade 8 and i got accepted into an ib program today and i have 2 days to tell them if im going or not. i really really need help since i dont know anyone who has gone to ib... ive also heard ib horror stories so im scared. is it worth the 1500 dollars? how does ib grade 9-10 work? (i live in toronto, ontario) an going to not have a social life? HELP ME PLZ IM LITERLALLY GONNA CRY IDK WHAT TO DO.!!!!

yasidino
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Ironically ibdp is easier than other programs in my country.. and it's the most updated

ArrowAirlines
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I’m an 8th grader and I got accepted into the IB program and I only have a few days to choose. Idk if I wanna go bc I’ve heard it’s to stressful and AP is better for credits. But I also don’t wanna look bad if I turn down the acceptance?

adrianna
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I am going to High School next year and I want to take the IB and I am watching a bunch of videos about the IB. Thank You for making this. Can you do video about how you study for the IB and how you were calmed with all the work? Because I wanna know how you guys don't stress about the work and what your study routine was. And how did you take notes and stayed organized??

soniaalonso
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Do you think top colleges resend students if they don’t receive their diploma because no one thinks they are going to pass this year.

Sapphirehalls
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I kind of want to hear an actual video that compares your day to day experience versus a regular high school.

cloudburstlia
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i got into The Baccularite school of Global education can u tell me if that is a good school its an in school

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