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04-13-2008, 12:39 AM
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#31 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Princeton, NJ '11 Gender: Male
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| Probably not. If your GPA is low your chances basically suck as both sets of top schools.
Anyways, congratulations to all you Canadians who got in! I'm from Toronto myself, and it's always nice to see more Canadians at US schools. | 
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04-14-2008, 03:35 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
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| I asked which one I will have more chance at, not if my chances suck at both schools. thanks for the answer though.
congrats everyone! | |
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04-14-2008, 07:25 PM
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#33 | | Junior Member
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Would I have more chances at top US universities than top Canadian univ if I have low GPA but good ECs and SAT scores? because all Canadian universities look at is averages..
| Depends which Canadian universities you're looking at and for what programs. Most programs have a cut-off average, but then requires a supplementary where you can expand on things like ECs (which you seem to excel at). American schools definitely have a more holistic approach, but your GPA should still remain competitive (mid-high 80s). There is a greater breadth in terms of choices so your chances are buoyed by a combination of probability and good SAT scores/ECs.
Are you Canadian? | |
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04-14-2008, 08:37 PM
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#34 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
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| Hey guys,
I have a question as a fellow Canadian. What constitutes as a 'good' GPA here in Canada (percentage-wise)? Do American universities translate our percent scores into a GPA, is there some sort of conversion chart? Thanks! | |
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04-14-2008, 11:55 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada; Penn 2012
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| I think they leave our percents as percents, and not convert them to a GPA; at any rate, I've seen several different conversion charts, so there isn't a fixed conversion rate so to speak.
As for a competitive GPA for applying to the US, at my school, people who were accepted generally had 90+, 95+% as their overall average. For applying in Canada, generally 80, 85+% will gain you acceptance into most programs; you're looking at 90, 95+ again for the more competitive programs (e.g. Queens Commerce, McMaster Health Sci, UWO Ivey, etc.) | |
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04-15-2008, 02:22 PM
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#36 | | Junior Member
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| Anyone going to UBC? If so, which BS? | |
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04-15-2008, 03:39 PM
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#37 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
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| 90+ gets you into decent science and engineering programs, especially Waterloo and UfT | |
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04-19-2008, 12:23 AM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada; Penn 2012
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| Forgot to mention that 90+ also gets you some nice entrance scholarships, especially in Ontario (I found Queens and UWO to be the most generous, while schools in the west such as UBC, less generous; e.g. Queens/UWO will give $10 000 for 95+ and I think $5000 for 90+, while UBC only gives $2000 for 90+)
For those of you headed down to the states, what are you guys thinking of doing in terms of bank accounts? Open a second account at a US bank but still maintain a Canadian account? I'm wondering if it would be worth transferring to HSBC which has branch locations in both in my hometown and in Philly, so I'd have access to my account during the school year and during holidays when I'm at home... | |
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04-19-2008, 01:01 AM
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#39 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
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| I got into Brown and Stanford RD, Caltech & UChicago EA, and waitlisted at MIT - most likely heading to Stanford after visiting next week for admit weekend. It's a relief after all the months of waiting! | |
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04-20-2008, 11:44 PM
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#40 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Montreal
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| @CDN_dancer
i'm with TD, so I'll open up a bank account (obviously with a different bank) when i get to philly. also, Im going to transfer a couple thousand of my spending money because the CAD is supposed to lose about 10% compared to the greenback after the recession... what do you think? | |
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04-21-2008, 12:30 AM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada; Penn 2012
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| dlesk,
Yeah I'm with TD too right now. I posted this in the Parents forum, and got quite a few good responses, including one from the parent of a current Penn student. Will have to do some more research in the coming months, but now I've got an idea of where to start. Questions re: Bank accounts for students | |
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04-21-2008, 09:04 PM
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#42 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Mississauga, ON
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| ^^ See my response in that thread. If you use Scotiabank you can withdraw U.S. dollars from your Canadian dollar Scotiabank account using Bank of America ATMs without paying ATM or international service fees. The reverse also works (withdrawing Canadian dollars from your Bank of America U.S. dollar account using a Scotiabank ATM in Canada) | |
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04-21-2008, 10:22 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ontario Gender: Male
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| Hey, i'm from Canada as well...another ivy hopeful xD...vicente, you're from mississauga? same here =) | |
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04-22-2008, 02:19 AM
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#44 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Princeton, NJ '11 Gender: Male
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| As I responded in the Parents' forum thread, I used TD in Canada and opened a BoA account here at Princeton. It probably would've been easier to just use the Scotia/BoA combination (from whichever angle you choose to approach it) but I don't know whether I'm staying in America or going back to Canada after college and want to keep my options open. | |
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04-22-2008, 03:34 PM
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#45 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Ontario Gender: Male
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| hey 1of42 =)...i'm vieing for Princeton...do you have any advice? | |
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