milk Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 im in pre-IB2 so i guess i dont really count. but there are so many just certificate students in all my classes that the actual pre-full diploma candidates (like me) just tend to stick with who we were already friends with. no one really meshes lol its kinda sad Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezies Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 At my school IB students are usually supposed to be the brainy lot.And we were 30 of us at the beginning and there ws this group of 10 kids who were highly popular and they formed the "IB clique" but then they did this thing and about 12 of them were sent out(for the first time) and nw IBs nt considered that great a thing.Personally most of my friends r frm outside IB.I find my class extremely boring..everyones just so obsessed with their laptop they dont even realise that a world exists outside that. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder7 Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Yes, in my school there is definetly a division.The total students in my school year are like 115. Most of us have been together since Kindergarden, and we all know each other.Half decided to do IB (we're like 60 students of which thirty something are doing the diploma) and half are BUAP (non-IB students).We don't have any classes together and we even have separate homerooms. All of my friends are on IB and I don't hang out with people from BUAP.There are some people from IB that have friends in BUAP and some people from BUAP that have friends on IB. But mostly we kind of dislike each other (we tend to dislike BUAPs because they are stuck up, snobish, and some of them have been mean to us in the past).There is no hate or rivalry. We peacefully coexist together.But yeah, there is a separation. But I (and most IB students) like that separation. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Humaira Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Well we IBs are together all the time, and have our own inside jokes... but we're still friends with a lot of the non IBs. Especially the dropouts! the dropouts, and inside jokes are so true!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerstin Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 naaa we're only a class of 6 and we mix up with all the other classes Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpediem Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 It's inevitable at my school. The way timetabling works, the whole IB schedule is basically the same (e.g. there is a Group 1 block, and a Group 3 block etc.) and because of not having enough classrooms, we occasionally have different classrooms. It's hard to bump into old friends when you don't know their timetable. But IB/A-Levelers (as I like to call them as a joke) do mix - friendship groups are mixed, it's just harder to see the A-Level people sometimes. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRdupuis Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 My school is very large (about 2200 people) but to be honest there is not that big of a division. Mostly because my school heavily promotes participation in extra curricular and so you meet a ton of normal students. Unfortunately, there are some programs that have "IB kids only" written all over it. For example our school holds numerous leadership conferences that you have to apply for in order to attend, and the only people that get selected for exec positions or delegate positions are IB students. Especially the "popular" IB students. Sigh~This was a very interesting question by the way, I'm interested to hear what it's like at other schools. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katasha Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 At our school we too keep to ourselves and don't tend to hang out with many people that are not in IB. It's bad but we do tend to think of ourselves as elite and dare not dame to affiliate ourselves with "common people." Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spereira14 Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I guess I don't have that problem at my school, as we all have to do the IB program, but I could see how it can affect other school where you're separated from the other students. Being in IB is kind of a lifestyle, you have so much work and so many things to do, that you want to surround yourself with people who are going through the same thing, whether if it's just getting help on a subject or homework assignment, or maybe you just have some inside jokes.It's very common in most high schools, and I particularly, always bond the most with people who I have in my class constantly, as we can always talk and share about upcoming tests and assignments we have. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Boyle Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 yeah it's just like this at my school, most of us hang about in groups of IB. I try my best to intermingle and I think I do quite well at it through sports, drama etc. It's hard to do so when IB is so cliquey and our timetables are so much fuller. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadurski Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Im big into sports so the IB kids dont really share anything in common with me. Many of the kids that took IB only took a select number of classes, we only have one full IB kid in our whole school so there isn't a division at all. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel A2F Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 In my current high school, the 'old glories' from the 2nd year of IB are pretty much severed from us, but maybe that's only 'cause of they're prepearing their IB exams.. (?) With my generation there are two different groups: the whole class and me. Nye.But why am I apart from the group? Well they all come from small schools where they were the greatest students ever, so I guess that made them a little bit pretty much arrogant and haughty - they're still nice people... just close in their own, or in their own group, too 'delicate' to hang around the no-IB students. Nye. I come from a tough place, and I've never been pamped by anyone. Yeaaaah it's true that I hang around the most weird people on Earth but I don't care, I just cannot accept being an IB student makes me... higher, anyhow. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Glau Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 In my experience, I wasn't as close with the IB students in my grade, I mainly hung out with the IB students in the grade ahead of me. But yes, in most social situations and especially so in IB, cliques seem to form naturally through human nature. Someone should write an EE on it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Stark Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) We've got a 27-student cohort (tiny, particularly when one notes our school has 3500 students), in a school that does not understand IB at all. Between that, having so many classes together, and all being equally screwed, the cohort is pretty tight-knit for the most part. Edited February 3, 2012 by Saurav Das Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabrielle Olivia Posted February 17, 2012 Report Share Posted February 17, 2012 I don't really agree that my IB friends are cliquy. It's to be expected that we hang out since we share ALL of our classes together, but honestly? Most everyone doesn't have time for a social life anyway! Plus I'm very sporty, so I have lots of friends that are involved in sports and I hang out with that crowd. It could be the fact that I go to a large high school (1600+ students in grades 10, 11 and 12, I live in Canada so there is no 'freshman' thing.) That may also be a factor. But I don't think we are "cliquy" we are just good friends! I am also very involved with my youth group at church and have loads of friends from that. All in all, I think it also depends on your personality! I am not clingy at all, and I don't like spending all my time with one group of people. I get tired of them after a while! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeekChloe Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 We only have 19 kids so we are pretty much a big family. We all have different friends outside of IB though, most of which are previous pre-IB dropouts, haha...there are a couple sort of outsider kids but we basically stick together. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
opieman Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Oh yeah. There are 17 people in my class, I have class with them all day, every day, and I know about 4 people outside the program. I should note that I am extremly introverted though. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyrgen Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Yeah, we got our own little IB gang, it's actually great, we have our own inside jokes and everything Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogges Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 My batch has about 50-60 people and everyone is familiar with everyone else. That being said, there are divisions amongst ourselves in IB. There's the group of kids that are always studying and put their social and personal lives on the back burners and there are the kids that socialize with everyone; IB and Non-IB. There are also a few kids that are tougher to describe than that and their behaviour and social circles are a bit erratic. For the most part though, the IB students stay within IB for friends. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Magster Posted February 28, 2012 Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 My school is a semi-private school, with an IB department (IBMYP and IBDP), and a regular Dutch department. I think about 15-20% of students does IB, and the rest just goes to Dutch secondary school. In the lower years (MP1-MP4), there tends to be a lot of rivalry between the 2 departments, and there really is one big IB group. But after MP4, my class started hanging out with other students a lot more, and by now, much of the class is completely integrated, though I say most because I'm not going to generalize a group of 55 people. But for me, for example, my close friend group consists of 3 'Dutchies' and only 1 fellow IB-er. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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