Druid Hills High

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The IB Mission Statement

The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and International caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through Baccalaureate intercultural understanding and respect. Program

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging

programmes of international education [Recipient] [Street Address] [City, ZIP ST Code] [Website] [Email] and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who

understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

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What colleges say about the IB…

Students take at least three but no more "Highly selective colleges and universities than four courses at a Higher level and are looking for students who take the most three (or two) at Standard level. All challenging courses available to them. The students complete the curriculum core. IB programme is notable not just for the rigor of its individual classes, but for the thoughtful integration of the entire The core of the IB curriculum: programme. Students who complete the IB diploma are the kind of smart, intellectually curious, and creative students who excel at the top universities." Made up of three required components, the DP core aims to Brandon R. Clarke Former admission broaden students’ educational director, Stanford University

experience and challenge them to “I have always been a supporter of the apply their knowledge and skills. International Baccalaureate. It is a The IB at DHHS thoughtful and genuinely intellectual The three core elements are: curriculum with an unusually high degree of integrity and connectedness. There is no • Theory of knowledge, in which students Students in the IB Programme at DHHS other curriculum anywhere that does a reflect on the nature of knowledge and on have access to to the superior job of both educating students and Research Library and have been recruited how we know what we claim to know. inspiring a true and broad-based love of for internships at Emory, Children’s Hospital, learning." • The extended essay, which is an , the Carter Center and Tech amongst others. independent, self-directed piece of William Shain research, finishing with a 4,000-word IB students at DHHS have been chosen for Dean of Undergraduate Admissions paper. the Governor’s Honors Program, Posse and Vanderbilt University Questbridge scholarships, and in 2020, all of • Creativity, activity, service, in which those who applied were admitted to UGA "Send us prepared students a la IB...it is students complete a project related to and/or . Students have been the BEST high school prep curriculum an recruited to attend Yale, MIT, Princeton, those three concepts. American school can offer." Harvard, Duke, Brown University of Chicago, often on full scholarships. They have also Marilee Jones The six subject groups are: engaged in projects including building a website to offer free tutoring community Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Studies in language and literature M.I.T. • wide, and in volunteering as mentors in • Language acquisition elementary and middle school, organizing • Individuals and societies school-wide efforts to bring awareness to • Sciences human trafficking and school voter • Mathematics registration drives. • The arts