2. The biggest difference between Canadian & USA higher ed is that Canada has many fewer schools and they are roughly equal in quality. You can get an equivalent education almost anywhere. In USA, divide between Harvard and, say, Bob Jones U. is huge.
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3. Relatedly, in Canada frat/sorority system is weak. U of Toronto had frats but I din't know anyone who went to one. And athletics is minor. When I was there, Toronto football got, at best, an audience of few thousands
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4. SATs are a very small part of Canadian system, where people usually get in based on high school scores (I think SATs are used for foreign students). I never took a SAT.
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5. Government funding plays a much bigger part of Canadian higher ed funding, and alumni donations are small. Which means entire social system used to extract alumni funding (sports, reunions, networking, college mystique) is much less significant in Canada.
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6. The American system has some advantages -- there is a lot more money in system -- but, in all honesty, it is much less focused on giving people an education than in giving them the right social connections.
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Counterpoint: This is just the NYC-DC corridor stuff. I almost never hear about what college people went to here on the west coast.
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I get asked this all the time in the Bay Area.
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The Brits are the same.
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I assume you mean the same as the Americans. Fwiw I think the Brits are worse because they remain obsessed with high school as well, even after uni.
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Eh, people react a lot differently to hearing you went to McGill/UofT/Queens than, say, Windsor or Lakehead. The real difference is that (in Ontario at least, don't know how other provinces work) admissions are handled centrally & are based almost entirely on grades.
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Canada also doesn't have private universities at all, apart from a few weirdo religious institutions no one cares about.
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