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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Adam Sternbergh

    1. Good brief thread on the difference between Canadian and USA higher ed. To which a little more can be said.https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1105520589094207494 …

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    Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh
    back in 2004 I ran into an old Canadian colleague about a month after I'd arrived in NYC how do you like it? he asked good, I said have you noticed how fixated everyone is on what college you went to? he asked they are? I said (1/2)
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

        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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019

        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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      2. Yonatan‏ @yonatanb 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. Charlotte Nesbitt‏ @charredhotdog 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @yonatanb @HeerJeet

        I get asked this all the time in the Bay Area.

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      2. J.Dale‏ @breadlymoore 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The Brits are the same.

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      3. Vive le Bélarus libre  🇺🇦  ↙️ ↙️ ↙️  🟣‏ @Seunte 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @breadlymoore @HeerJeet

        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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      2. Vive le Bélarus libre  🇺🇦  ↙️ ↙️ ↙️  🟣‏ @Seunte 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        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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      3. Vive le Bélarus libre  🇺🇦  ↙️ ↙️ ↙️  🟣‏ @Seunte 12 Mar 2019
        Replying to @Seunte @HeerJeet

        Canada also doesn't have private universities at all, apart from a few weirdo religious institutions no one cares about.

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