<p>I am a sophomore at a community college in Michigan. I am looking at applying to University of Toronto. My question is, should I decide to come back to the US, how will that degree be looked at here? Major will be economics. I have a 3.96 GPA in almost 2 years at community college so I would think I am in (but not entirely sure). Schools in the US I am applying to include University of Michigan Ann Arbor and University of Texas. How would Toronto compare to those two schools if I end up back in the States? </p>
<p>U of T is definitely an awesome university and is well recognized internationally as well. I don’t think getting a degree there will get you less respect than graduating in a US college</p>
<p>And for your information, U of T is ranked 29th worldwide, which is higher than brown which is 31st. You should also aim for McGill. It has even more international recognition and your degree will be well respected. McGill is ranked 19th worldwide on U.S. News.</p>
<p>@juliushark-I totally agree with you. Waterloo and U of T is more specialized in tech fields than McGill. But nonetheless, McGill is still a great all-rounder.</p>
<p>I was just in Boston auditioning at the Boston Conservatory for my masters in music. Let me tell you, generally a degree is a degree. Trust me, your Canadian degree will definitely be appreciated. At least mine was. Canadian Universities are very similar in the sense that although some are better for a specific program, they generally all provide students with the same high level of education, and most academic-types know this. U of T is a great school. If you like it, I would go. Also, its much cheaper! =D</p>
<p>katip1616: If you think that all Canadian universities provide students with the same high level of education, you are very naive. There is not the extreme variation that you get in the US, but there is still a great deal of variation.</p>
<p>Yalerocks, please do not tell people to look at international rankings as they are heavily skewed by the reputation of grad school. For undergrad, Brown is a million times better than U of T, Mcgill or any others. This is taking into consideration student quality, social life, class size etc etc. For grad, however, U of T and Mcgill are much better than Brown. International rankings are bogus.</p>
<p>^ This is not true at all. I have taught at an Ivy, a top US school, and now a well known Canadian school. Extremely overrated differences. Every single one of my students in Canada who wanted to go south for graduate work has had zero problem-- they’ve had a choice of top schools to choose from. And they saved their parents a boatload of money :)</p>
<p>U of T is quite famous for how impersonal their classes are because of their large size. Getting to know your professor at U of T is highly unlikely (although nothing is ever impossible). That said, people know U of T is rigorous and so it upholds respect with the rest of the academic world both on a national and international level. It is not easy to get high grades at U of T in any program from what I’ve heard. If your goal is to move to the states and still be respected, U of T is definitely a great choice (and is significantly cheaper than many of the comparable American schools).</p>
<p>^that’s how it works at Western at least lol…a guy told me that he had ~92 average in high school, and came out of Bio-Med with 3.95ish. He said MC was easy stuff at UWO.</p>
<p>Western is mostly research driven…like they promote a ton of research, so it has its pros and cons. its also known as a party school lol, so i dont think Maclean’s would rank a party school highly lol. </p>
<p>the dude is smart too, but he said MC was manageable for sure.</p>
<p>I just want to clear something up. Most first- and second-year students have no desire to get to know their professors. They rarely attend office hours, even here at Harvard. So this “getting to know your professor” meme is largely a hypothetical. Classes slim down substantially by the third and fourth years anyway, so those who are seeking letters of recommendation will ultimately find plenty of opportunity to make themselves recognized. Yes, even at U of T.</p>
<p>In any case, wherever you go to school, all you have to do if you want to get to know your professor is attend his office hours or shoot him an email and arrange a meeting.</p>
<p>A multiple choice question may require you to do calculations. If you make common mistakes, you will see a wrong answer as one of the choices and select it, you would be incorrect. This was certainly the type of MC question I had in accounting and finance courses at McGill. </p>
<p>Other MC questions require you to make inferences and evaluations based on a statement. This is similar to the CR portion of the SAT I.</p>
<p>for law and business school at least, large american firms recruit from canada … this is because <strong>education quality-wisse</strong> canadian law schools (from the big unis, anways) are the same as any in the states. yes, the names of the ivies and a few other schools may trump them in the short term, but graduating from university of toronto, or ubc, or mcgill, or queens has the same clout as graduating from many of the top US unis, like mit, stanford, etc. its what you studied and how well you did that will make the difference</p>