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jagec

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Originally posted by: eLiu
I'm sure it helped me get admitted into college, but I'll be damned if IB or AP were actually useful in any way. College classes are way more rigorous/challenging than high school stuff ever was. I am glad I took the college math classes & AP Physics C though b/c that got me out of a lot of annoying low level, 1 billion student classes.

Then you went to the wrong high school. First two years of college were easier than high school for me. In high school the lowest A was a 94%. Unfortunately we didn't have many AP classes...I should have taken Spanish, and I took Biology, but that was pretty much it. Biology was an awesome class with an awesome teacher, probably one of my favorite classes in high school or college, although Microbiology was pretty sweet too.
 

Dessert Tears

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Originally posted by: eLiu
I'm sure it helped me get admitted into college, but I'll be damned if IB or AP were actually useful in any way. College classes are way more rigorous/challenging than high school stuff ever was. I am glad I took the college math classes & AP Physics C though b/c that got me out of a lot of annoying low level, 1 billion student classes.
You were admitted to MIT, so your experience re: the usefulness of AP/IB is probably less representative. I assume you tested out of 18.02, 18.03, and 18.06 - good choice.