What is the best college for a life sci major?

NamelesStatistic
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:48:51 +0000

The short answer is none of them are any better than the others. The “colleges” at uoft are frankly administrative units used to divide the huge student population. Essentially, if you live in residence you will live in your colleges dorm, but that is about it. Day to day life at uoft is not affected at all by which college you are in. There are no special courses or anything that are exclusive to students of a particular college. You see your college registrar for administrative stuff and some colleges offer a few different scholarships, but that is about it. The collegiate system is really much more tradition rather than actual function anymore, since originally UofT was a confederation of smaller Toronto universities (ie. Victoria College, St. Micheal’s college, King’s College-which later was renamed University College). Originally many of these colleges were religious (eg. St. Michael’s was protestant and I believe Trinity was catholic), where as University colleges was the founding non religious college. However none of the colleges nowadays are directly associated with any religion. Outside of frosh week there is really no connection between you and your college. If you plan to live in residence I suggest that you just pick the college which you feel has the best dorms. Or pick the one which has the architecture you like most (university, st michael’s, victoria and trinity are old and woodsworth, innis and new college are newer). Even the different scholarship options between the colleges are very minor. Frankly by the end of your undergrad you will likely have had multiple classes in pretty much every one of these colleges.