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