Chance me for McGill and UBC!

Astrotech
Wed, 21 May 2014 23:30:54 +0000

It says on College Board’s Big Future that the Waterloo application fee is $140 (BigFuture College Search)
Waterloo is definitely prestigious enough for any tech job in Canada, and above many American schools for employer prestige in Canada. Waterloo is especially very prestigious in Kitchener-Waterloo.
As for Grad School, many students from Waterloo and UBC will pursue studies at top American colleges, but schools like Stanford and Berkeley are hard to get into regardless of whether you came from Harvard, New York University, University of Toronto or Waterloo.
As for social life, these Canadian schools are huge. I know not too much about their social life, but McGill has a reputation for being a party school. Toronto has a stressed reputation, but I’m not too sure about the accuracy of that. Waterloo has more of an introvert-y stereotype, and UBC has a pretty American-college-type stereotype. Of course, never rely on stereotypes and paradigms; these schools are huge, and you will be able to fit into a large group and live a social life the way you want to, no matter what your personality is.

Where you end up going if cross-admitted is completely up to your preference. UBC is generally more prestige, but Waterloo has more prestige for CS, if it prestige that you care about. Earnings is at around-par, maybe higher for Waterloo Engineering and CS students. As for the school themselves, again, it is based off of personal preference, and you can find out a lot from research online. You should also check the school’s viewbooks and brochures, which you can find from Google (or your search engine of choice). You can also order them in the mail, which can be done by adding request information next to the school’s name in a search engine.