Will I have a ~14.5% chance of getting accepted to Harvard? And other highly-competitive schools.

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@compman Thanks! I’ll look into those schools more as I’m aware what I want from a university, but it doesn’t hurt to research.

@JHS

Most Canadians don’t particularly want to emigrate to the U.S., especially not to someplace cold in the U.S., and Harvard as a brand doesn’t have the same cachet there that it does in Asia. And putting together an application to a selective American university is an enormous PITA compared to applying to top Canadian universities.

Agreed. Although I’d rather keep anything political out, the to-be-inaugurated administration in the US isn’t too favorable among a sizable amount of people here, and especially with a noticeable amount of younger people. Harvard does have a brand here and is recognized as more prestigious than the top schools here, but I’m not sure how much that prestige compares to Americans and anyone else in the world or if it’s enough to sway many top students here. Even then, I’m not sure if other US schools - even other Ivy Leagues - have much of a brand here. It’s definitely much harder to apply to a selective American university, as there’s scoring high on the SAT and the optional two SAT 2 subject tests (which costs $100 each here) for those schools, while with a top Canadian university, only a high mark average and Extracurriculars are needed - there’s no standardized testing for undergraduates required in any case as a Canadian.