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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. 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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        5. 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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        1. Dandy Roddick‏ @Dandy_Roddick 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          For real, Harvard's Divinity School is grossly inferior.

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        1. Stephen Geigen-Miller‏ @Stephen_GM 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Speaking as someone who attended York and now works at UofT, this is true, but not the kind of talk our nominally more elite schools like to encourage. :-)

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        2. Thomas Kaempfen‏ @ThomasKaempfen 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Not in my experience. For example, there's quite a difference between York University (perfectly respectable, but not impressive) and the University of Toronto (as good as the Ivy League).

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @ThomasKaempfen

          I went to both and I don't think that's true at all. I mean University of Toronto likes to pretend its Ivy League (and I went to the most Ivy School part, Trinity college) but it's not the same.

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        1. Maggie LaPointe‏ @courageousgirl2 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Yes Correct

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        1. Geezer Soze‏ @plinytheelder_t 12 Mar 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          In Canada & Europe they make sure that the various honors levels of bachelor (1st, upper 2nd, lower 2nd, 3rd in UK terms) and masters degrees are roughly equal, regardless of which accredited institution granted it. In UK, still matters if you went to Oxford/Cambridge/Imperial

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