pretty much

correct me if i'm wrong but weren't the ivies based on like athletic competitions or something?

i wouldn't say we really have an ivy equivalent in canada. there are no real harvards or yales or princetons in the way people identify those. there are, however, some excellent universities.

mcgill i'd say is canada's top uni all around.

ut is great for most programs as well

queen's, ubc, western, waterloo, and maybe mcmaster are all tops in some aspect of uni studies and life so they'd share that role as a top canadian university.


personally, for all around uni i'd pick McGill, UT, UBC, and either UW, UWO, or Queen's.

The Ivy League schools in the US are

- old
- selective
- small to medium sized (by Canadian standards), but with extensive graduate programs - From Dartmouth College at a bit over 4,000 undergraduate students to Cornell with under 14,000.

Queen's probably best fits that description. Of course, as someone has mentioned - the Ivy League is a sports league.

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thats jokes. lol never even heard of dalhousie

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i personally don't really think any of the self-naming of the 'canadian ivies' really holds any worth. even in the us there are more public universities like berkeley that i would argue surpass the reputation and educational worth of some of the actual ivies.

if we're talking about ivy league in the traditional sense of a group of unis getting together for sports, saw this last week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Four

makes sense to me.

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UWO 2012

The whole comparison is ridiculous for a number of reasons.

First of all all the major schools in Canada are public.

Secondly, many of the schools sometimes associated with the "Canadian Ivies" do not even rank very high in international rankings. (e.g Dalhousie and Western)

Further, the majority of schools in Canada that are respected are large institutions with 15,000+ students. The University of Toronto has over 60,000 students and McGill and UBC (the latter which can't belong anyways because it is in the West and relatively new) also have huge numbers. Thus the schools resemble big U.S. public institutions more than private schools with relatively small student bodies.

A more definitive list of Canadian Universities that are important is the G13 list. The institutions on that list have the most money (like the Ivies), both in terms of endowments and competitive research grants.

While naturally U of T has the biggest endowment, Mount Allison has a considerably bigger endowment per student.

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If your question is "What mark does it take to get into University X", or "What are the requirements to get into University X", it's on their website and/or electronicinfo.ca (for Ontario schools). Particularly for Ontario schools, those ranges are a pretty good picture of what kind of mark will get you into the program, and if you're more than a couple percent higher it's practically guaranteed unless it requires a supplementary form.

I'm sorry, but "Canadian Ivies" are non-existent. Canadian universities just aren't selective enough (unless you look at specific programs like schulich and Mac HSc). Plus, there are also several US schools that are underrated, but are unfortunately not Ivy League such as Stanford and John Hopkins.