<p>My son got accepted to RPI, University of Toronto, McGill, Queen University, University of Waterloo and Boston University in ECE, RPI gave him 40K over 4 years, University of Toronto and McGill University seem to have the best raking, any suggestion?
He consider to transfer to top 5 engineering schools in US</p>
<p>RPI is the best one there for engineering, waterloo also very respectable, same with U of T.</p>
<p>There are some blogs talking negative about RPI, lost 4 out of 5 Deans in the last 3 years, still looking for Deans, would you recommmend to stay at BU or U of T or Waterloo</p>
<p>Waterloo or Toronto. Both are world-class engineering schools.</p>
<p>Did he get in off of a waitlist? Where?</p>
<p>I would have to say Waterloo in this scenario. Waterloo has the biggest cooperative education program in the world. If you aren’t familiar with the term “co-op”, it’s a program where mostly engineering/science majors alternate between classroom learning and experimental learning in a job setting or research setting. This program usually takes 5 years but you do learn what you will do with that major in the workplace, and most of the time, if you are good, the company that you work during the “work semesters” with will offer you a job as well. So not only will you graduate Waterloo, a top 50 or so engineering school in the world, but you will also have a guaranteed job and 2 years of work/research experience.</p>
<p>Waterloo/McGill (depending upon “fit”)
RPI
UofT</p>
<p>…in that order.</p>
<p>RPI is located in Troy, NY. Troy is so ridden with crime and poverty that it has been dubbed most comically, “The Troy-let” lol. I live near Troy, and to tell you the truth, there is some validity in that statement. RPI is average for Engineering, trust me. Also, many professors at RPI are payed to Research and not teach. My best friend goes to RPI, and many of her teachers are TA’s or graduate students. There are countless problems with the administration as well. I have been to Troy maybe 10 times, and unless I was forced to, I would not go my 11th. ( The previous ten was to just see my friend.) </p>
<p>Go to Waterloo or McGill depending of your personal preferences.</p>
<p>I don’t anything about Waterloo but RPI is certainly more respected for engineering than McGill.</p>
<p>^ +1 on Troy, coming from someone with family in New York</p>
<p>Why all the Toronto hate? From what I hear, the classes are huge, but that’s true of McGill too…</p>
<p>In your search did you take a look at Memorial University of NewFoundland. They are tops in coop engineering, naval engineering, romote operated vehicles and the like. But I cann’t find info on them!</p>
<p>“The University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has the largest co-operative education program in the world, with more than 11,000 students enrolled in co-op programs and more than 3,000 active co-op employers. It offers fully automated Web-based job submission (for employers) and job application/resume posting (for students). Waterloo’s renowned engineering program is one of the few co-op only engineering programs in Canada. Waterloo’s 5-year co-op program includes 24 months of work experience, the longest undergraduate co-op experience in Canada and most likely in the world.”</p>
<p>you are actually deciding between Waterloo and toronto. Toronto is ranked 10th in the world in Engineering and Waterloo is the MIT of Canada. only choose Mcgill if you love Montreal. It is strong in engineering but not as strong as the other two.</p>
<p>I hear that most of undergrade students at U o W have a hard time to understand professors or TAs as many with their first language are not english, the student culture are not cooprerative.</p>
<p>quangn, at technical schools such as MIT and Waterloo, many of the professors are international and do not speak fluent english, you will have this problem wherever you go for engineering since there are many international teachers in engineering.</p>
<p>if you go to [url=<a href=“http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5DRateMyProfessors.com%5B/url”>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com]RateMyProfessors.com[/url</a>] (many waterloo students appear to use this site), you can look at student ratings of each professor and determine which can speak fluently and which cannot through student reviews/complaints. So when selecting classes, don’t pick those professors and you shouldn’t have a problem.</p>
<p>If engineering is the goal choose waterloo or Toronto</p>
<p>If major is not engineering: choose McGill, Queens or Toronto</p>