Hi, yeah, i can say to you, i´m just finishing IB1 moving to IB2 in a couple of weeks, and i got to say, it does open you the doors for studying abroad, for example in some universities that i want to apply to, they are even offering me half scholarship for taking the IB diploma program, other universities may be easier to access, due that the fact of being an IB student, can make you for some universities to be elegiable for being excempt of some admission requierements, so my recomendation is for you to take it, due that it helps you a lot during the admission process and once you are accept