What Universities say about IB

• Dr. Eugene Carson of Virginia Tech states:
  . . . IB students who attended that university [Virginia Tech] as freshmen significantly outperformed all other freshmen, including students who had taken Advanced Placement courses.
   
• The admissions director of Harvard states:
  Success in an IB program correlates well with success at Harvard. We are always pleased to see the credentials of the IB Diploma Program on the transcript.” GPA is not nearly as important a factor in university admission as the IB Diploma. If a student has to choose, choose the Diploma over protecting the GPA.
   
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Send us prepared students a la IB…It is the "best" high school prep curriculum an American school can offer."
   
• Duke University
  "One of the advantages of an IB curriculum is its structure and quality. It is a coordinated program, well established, well known and well respected. We know the quality of IB courses, and we think the IB curriculum is terrific."
   

University of California Admissions Officers

"The breadth and depth of the IB Program, the curriculum, provides us at the Admissions Office with the kind of information and assurance that students have done the work that we expect of them in the academic area. Not only that, they exhibit the potential of doing very well at our institution. In short, what is in the program of IB, the emphasis on the linkages between the disciplines being studied, for example, the extended essay, all of these things are really excellent indicators to us that the student has done the work that we require and also, the student will bring a lot to the institution.”…“there are other things that are intangible…These particular candidates exhibited evidence of determination, tenacity, motivation and all these kinds of qualities that are really, really very valued by all of us as we do our selection for admission."

   (Source: Dos Pueblos High School Website [Link])