<p>LOL @ Pulchritude</p>
<p>If you had actually read the Times Higher Education Supplement, you would have seen that they offer a significant amount of praise for the British university system. Evidently you just skipped or poorly skimmed the actual content and went to straight to the ranking.</p>
<p>I have noticed they covered a lot of UK colleges… I also noticed that most of the top colleges were US… but you are right I went straight to the rankings. Maybe I am biased…</p>
<p>Puchritude 6,
You didn’t say that that more top ranked schools are American, you said “an average US college is tonnes better than an average European college even, what to say of Canadian universities…” Rankings of top schools have nothing to do with averages.</p>
<p>Also, if you were to use the rankings meaningfully, you would have to somehow control for the number of universities and students. If one country has 1/10 the population of another, one could not expect it to have the same number of top 25 universities.</p>
<p>Yes, it is true that US is a huge country with great many more colleges than Canada and that rankings focus more on the top colleges rather than the averag e colleges… it’s just that someone with my limited finances coming from India had to make the statiscally soundest choice, which is why I relied so much on all these rankings.</p>
<p>It isn’t the statistically soundest choice if you don’t control for population.</p>
<p>So you applied to Canadian colleges? Sorry if I offended you… they’re tonnes better than some of the colleges we have back here in India… besides I don’t think you need to go to the US to be successful obviously… there’s a lot more to your career than your undergrad degree.</p>
<p>I haven’t applied to any colleges. I’m a parent who is commenting on your analysis of the international rankings.</p>
<p>Pulchritude6, have you ever been to a Canadian university before? Have you ever really experienced the canadian education system? If not, don’t simply make judgements based on a random ranking you read. Dude, loosen up that big-country-provincialism attitude and come to Canada if you really want to find the truth.</p>
<p>I have a feeling Pulchritude is making many generalizations without consider other factors. He doesn’t have to go to a foreign school if he doesnt want to. No point arguing his ignorance.</p>
<p>Many times safeties for kids are schools that are not only likely to admit, but also close to the student. Why apply to a school so far away that’s likely to admit you, when you can apply to a school near to you and you can save SO MUCH money on travel costs?</p>
<p>here here …</p>
<p>what makes you assume UofT and McGill are safeties???</p>
<p>To some, they are. Though McGill is probably moreso than UofT. McGill accepts 56 percent and U of T accepts 57 percent. But what makes UT’s number tricky is that they automatically accept everyone from public Texas HS’s in the top 10 percent of their class. So when it comes to everyone else, the number is a lot lower.</p>
<p>^UT=UT-Austin
UofT is University of Toronto, I don’t think the University of Toronto accepts top 10% in texas hs… i mean what makes texas so special? we are in Canada…</p>
<p>I could understand why U of T is a safety. Most programs except commerce, and engineering only require a B average</p>
<p>oooooooooohhhh hehehehe. Sorry.</p>
<p>I did not know the admission requirement for UofT, UBC, Mcgill etc are so low…
like B avg for most major except Biz and engineering.</p>
<p>for Malaysian, Singaporeans graduated from tertiary it will more like B+ to A- grades. not so easy. no need to classified them as safeties at all!
safeties to southeast asians are like RMIT, Curtin, UNSW, ANU etc. just need a C+ to B to get admitted to Biz or Engineering</p>
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