Do people realize that chasing big merit means applying to less selective schools?

[circuitrider]

@fiftyfifty1

This is not how it works almost anywhere else in the world. The top students in Canada have essentially assured admission to the top universities there, at very affordable prices. Ditto for the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the list goes on…

Yes, but isn’t that because they have much higher student to teacher ratios and no guarantee of housing after the first year (and sometimes not even then?)