<p>I don’t know any canadian including myself who submitted an essay or required EC’s when applying to a Canuck school. Unless that person was applying for a scholarship. </p>
<p>yes, canadian schools receive high amount of applicants. for example U of T receives about 30,000 or more. Why so high? because of common applications. a students selects their top three choices and applies to them. then why are admit rates high? They really aren’t. universities generally have an automatic acceptance figure they quote to high school admissions counsellors. Most students who apply know whether they will get accepted or not, so generally only those close to the admissions standards the university sets for their upcoming year apply, because they know they will be accepted. and many canadian schools will open up class spaces to accomodate more students if they meet the minimum admisson standards. that’s why all the talk oflarge class sizes in first year. All of this has nothing to do of course with academic rigour, which top schools like Queen’s mcgill and Toronto have in spades. but you won’t be babied like you will in the Ivy League. see some stats below. I don’t understand yield rates as I am not good at math. Do the admit rates quoted in U.S News rankings for the Ivies mean Yield rate or admit rate? if it is admit rate then Toronto is quite competitive and so is Queen’s. Queen’s admit rate would be about 9 or 10%. I can dig the figures up if anyone is interested.</p>
<p>Here are some stats on Toronto’s admit rates:
2000-01 2001-02 2002-03
Acceptance Rate: 18.5% 18.9% 17.7%
Offer Rate: 55.4% 58.2% 53.9%
Yield Rate: 33.3% 32.4% 32.8%
Total Applications 20,551 22,084 25,682
Acceptance and Yield Rates, 2002-03
Arts, Science and Commerce on St. George Campus
Total Applications = 25,682
Registrations = 4,537
Offers = 13,851</p>
<p>taken from: <a href=“http://www.utoronto.ca/govcncl/bac/details/ex/2004-05/exa20040913-11iii.pdf#search=�university%20of%20toronto%20acceptance%20rate�[/url]”>http://www.utoronto.ca/govcncl/bac/details/ex/2004-05/exa20040913-11iii.pdf#search=�university%20of%20toronto%20acceptance%20rate�</a></p>
<p>you can see something about mcgill here. but again it’s talking about yield rates. again, I don’t know the difference between acceptance and offer yield and yield rate:
[The</a> McGill Tribune](<a href=“http://www.mcgilltribune.com/media/paper234/news/2004/09/28/News/Student.Spreadsheet.Three.Is.Company.But.1742-733041.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.mcgilltribune.com]The”>http://www.mcgilltribune.com/media/paper234/news/2004/09/28/News/Student.Spreadsheet.Three.Is.Company.But.1742-733041.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.mcgilltribune.com)</p>