UToronto - Scarborough VS UWaterloo for Biology

ViggyRam
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:13:41 +0000

^at above poster: McGill is competitive too, since it attracts a lot of bright Quebec students and they attract only the most attractive Ontario/other province applicants. I mean, UT has the rep. of being cutthroat…heard that from the mouth of a distinguished professor who advised a kid to go to UWaterloo over UT for engineering because Waterloo isn’t that cutthroat.

For science though, UT is the worst if you wanna be premed/go to med school. Unless you are confident that you will ride the bell curve up and you are really smart+hard working, don’t risk it. There’s nothing, in my opinion, too awesome about UT. It has the commuter school attitude, not as much school spirit as like Western and stuff, people just go there for the prestige, and classes are enormous.

I would choose Waterloo.

McGill, though, is probably close to as competitive.
[Admissions Profile](http://www.mcgill.ca/es/profile/)

that link says the MEDIAN entering average for Ontario hs. students is 90%, while other provinces have a median of 92%. median SAT scores for US kids are high 600s. (so median SAT score is probably like 2000). So, it’s a smart school, but hard work at either McGill or UT will give you results, but the chances of that happening at UT are way slimmer.