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Stanford’s Assistant Dean of Admissions on the value of an IB education

As an IB parent and the Assistant Dean of Admission at Stanford University, Debra Von Bargen has firsthand experience working with many IB graduates. As her son began the IB Diploma Programme, she saw him do things he never thought he could do. In her role as the Assistant Dean of Admissions, she is excited to see how a student has taken on the IB and knows that IB students show very high success rates during their first year of university.


Visit this page for more ways to strengthen your university application. This post is part of a series where admissions officers from top US universities explain how to leverage the IB Diploma Programme in your university application. The entire collection is also on YouTube and Vimeo.