Remaining in an IB course, while not testing with the IB Organization

Such a change would be identified on the student's AST transcripts, and there would be no IB results for that particular IB course.

**For IB Certificate and Full Diploma Candidates:

If a student meets all requirements to remain in an IB course through both semesters in 11th grade and semester one of 12th grade, they may be provided the option to remain in the IB course during their final semester of 12th grade, but without being registered with the IB Organization for that IB course and additionally having their transcript identify the change; the student's (previous) IB course would be recorded as a non-IB course for semester two of 12t grade. All IB work would still be required to be submitted to the subject teacher - as part of their semester two grade. There would be no IB exams, though. 

With this path, it is necessary to have a written agreement signed by the parent(s) and the student - that indicates they understand there will be no IB results for that specific IB course and that the change will be recorded on their AST transcripts. If a university is expecting to see the IB results, this path is not advantageous. Additionally, universities do review students' transcripts for all 4 years of high school.

If a student decides to take this path after January 9th of the assessment year, the student will be responsible to reimburse the fee ($123 / course) that AST paid for the student to be assessed by IB for that course.

This would also be true (the student would be responsible for reimbursing the fee that AST paid for the student to be assessed by IB) if a student stops meeting the expectations for an IB course after January 9th of that assessment year; the student would be allowed to remain in the IB course, but the transcripts would identify the change to it being a non-IB course for semester two and the student would not be assessed by the IB Organization; thus, there would be no IB results for that IB course. 

**For IB Full Diploma Candidates:

The student will be responsible to reimburse the fee that AST paid for the student to be assessed by IB for that course ($123) and to additionally pay the fee that AST would incur due to changing the student’s IB Category from IB Full Diploma Candidate to IB Certificate Candidate; this fee is an additional $123.

**Additionally, please know letters of recommendation that are sent to universities can be changed up to June of the year in which a student graduates; this is another possible outcome if a student decides the rigor of an IB course is too much in semester two of their senior year and demonstrates lack of engagement in any of his / her IB courses.