Chance for U of T

DadTwoGirls
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:12:30 +0000

“I’m a Canadian citizen though I currently live in the US, so I’d most likely pay domestic fees,”

If you are a Canadian citizen, then you would pay the same rate as other Canadian citizens.

Waterloo is very good for computer science. You would also do well at UBC or McGill or many other universities in Canada. You can find a listing of top Canadian schools for computer science by googling “macleans rankings computer science”. Be aware that a couple of the schools in their top 20 teach in French. When I looked several years ago Waterloo also seemed to pride itself in being a bit more flexible than other schools, for example with dual majors. I haven’t looked at this for several years however.

By the way, we have a similar situation with regard to living in the US but having Canadian (actually dual) citizenship. Many years ago when we were just starting college hunting I sent email to Waterloo asking what tuition we would pay. I still remember the exact first sentence of their reply: “Your daughter is a Canadian citizen”. We have seen this same welcoming attitude from multiple Canadian schools towards students from abroad who have Canadian citizenship.

The most effective way to get admitted to universities in Canada appears to be to have a lot of A’s, and not much else. This has worked well for us.