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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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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I knew a few people in high school who did SATs, either for practice or because they planned to go to a US school
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I don't know anyone who took SATs , but thanks to American TV, I was terrified of them
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I'm from the US and applied to 3 Canadian schools and I don't remember any of them wanting my SATs, just high school transcripts
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I never took an SAT either. I did have six OAC credits tho.
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I’ve never heard of a person taking them here, nor ever heard of them until fairly recently.
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