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Understanding your IB Points
Grade 11 (class of 2025)
You received an email with a PDF of your current IB Scores.. You can use this information to research universities or review course content as needed to be on track to meet your goals for each class next year.
We have estimated the bonus points for TOK & Extended Essay (EE) as 2. Your eventual points will be 0, 1, 2, or 3 once the TOK class or essay is closer to completion in the fall.
Also, if you are in a self-taught or Pamoja class, that is listed here as a pass/fail (PS/FL) as well, so you can estimate your point for that class, and the IB Coordinator will communicate that to you once he receives it.
Below is a power point that explains how IB points can be used in your university research, and more information will be provided by the IB Coordinator.
Letters of Recommendation
A key component of the application checklist is asking for letters of recommendation. Much like the timeline with standardized testing, once you figure out which schools you are applying to and when, you can figure out the timeline for when to ask for letters of recommendation.
In general, you’d ideally ask for letters of recommendation at the end of your junior year to prepare for the upcoming application season, regardless of which application route you decide to take. To keep it simple, the sooner your application is due, the sooner you need to ask.
Some tips:
Be sure to ask at an appropriate time. You know how you wait until your parents are in a good mood before you ask them for something? Do that with this. That means:
Don’t ask your teachers during lunch. (They’re humans. They eat.)
Not right before class. (You’ll interrupt their class-prepping mojo.)
Not in the middle of class (just, no).
Not the day before the letter of recommendation is due (again, just, no).
Two better options for when to ask for a letter of recommendation:
Schedule a brief meeting with your teacher in advance. Shoot them an email asking if they have five minutes to chat with you about college sometime in the next week, then set up a time and don’t be late. The thoughtfulness will add another jewel to your crown in Letter of Recommendation heaven.
Wait until all the students have left the classroom at the end of the class and approach the teacher.
Ideally, work on establishing a personal relationship with the teacher you plan to ask a few months before the end of your junior year. This will make them more inclined to write you a letter at all, and the better you know each other, the stronger your letter of recommendation will be.
Tips From The College Essay Guy (https://www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/college-application-deadlines)
