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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 3/27/2008
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Location: Canada
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why leave a perfectly great country? the education here is just as good as the states, and much cheaper
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Rank: Senior Student
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I love Canada! especially BC. But it would still be interesting to go the states for while.
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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 3/28/2008
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Location: Netherlands
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I really don't think that I could go to school anywhere else....Canada is the way to go
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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 3/28/2008
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Location: mdot
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without a scholarship, who can really afford it?? plus trips home and back, extra tuition, etc... they really do have great sports scholarships plus when you get one you can pick almost any program you want!  don't forget, there are ALWAYS exchange programs at canadian universities... that way, you can take a year or semester at a school in the states, and then come back here! less $$ lol I <3 Canada 
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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 3/30/2008
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Location: north vancouver
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w/ a 95% + average you can get a full scholarships to many schools here...or at leats more than a couple grand (i.e SFU)
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Rank: Senior Student
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Joined: 3/24/2008
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Location: Windsor
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TDodge wrote:I've always thought about going down to the States for Post Secondary, but really, why would I want to leave canada? I love it here. All my family and friends are here and it would cost soooo much money. I think I'm going to stay right up here, EH? i would say dont go (not ment to discourage you) because you will also have to pay the international fee which at the end is not worth ... ...at the end its all the same education
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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 4/1/2008
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Location: Canada
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yup. too costly to go far to study for post secondary.
i don't know who said it earlier but coop (international exchange?) seems like a good idea
you still get to go somewhere and it costs less
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Rank: Senior Student
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Location: Toronto,ON
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MissO wrote:Ya Im not planning on going to the states either.
But I do know some people who will since they are getting some pretty awesome athletic scholarships. Other than that one guy from my school got a scholarship of $40,000 to Yale! Yeah but... that's a single year... going to Yale ends up costing like 40-50 thousand per year.
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I recall reading an article that was written a couple of decades ago, about the whole 'inferior colonial complex' that canadians seem to have. the author showed how back in the day of england, all the wealthy and high echelon indians would send their children to school in england, and the same went for vietnamese and france. He explains how we've sort of developed a similar belief being in such proximity to the US as a world power, and how we've convinced ourselves that the education received in the states surpasses anything we could get here, and why and how that is a mistake (e.g. people need to stay within their own society in the first few years of true academic independence to learn the system and how it functions, and in later years once they have a strong knowledge and experience in that they'll be able to appreciate the differences of foreign societies and education systems, and that often people who return to canada after an education in the us may not be able to function as well as someone who was educated here). At MANY canadian universities---McGill, UW, UT, Mac, Queens, Western, UBC, etc. (and many more of course) you can and will learn as well as someone who goes to a US university. It's the same concepts (the exception would be in political/law/and some other humanities and social sciences) and you will learn just as well. We're deluding ourselves when we think, 'oh well so and so who went to ______ in the US is smarter/better equipped than so and so who went to _____in canada' and its from this belief of inferiority that we've developed. Later years may matter more as that is when you will be one-on-one with a professor and their experience (and the facilities available to you) are of key importance, but for undergrad, save the money, and get just as good of an education here for four years. i'm glad to see a lot of people on these forums share this view
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Rank: Student Body President
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Joined: 3/5/2008
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Location: Wilfrid Laurier University
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Redrose27 wrote:I recall reading an article that was written a couple of decades ago, about the whole 'inferior colonial complex' that canadians seem to have. the author showed how back in the day of england, all the wealthy and high echelon indians would send their children to school in england, and the same went for vietnamese and france. He explains how we've sort of developed a similar belief being in such proximity to the US as a world power, and how we've convinced ourselves that the education received in the states surpasses anything we could get here, and why and how that is a mistake (e.g. people need to stay within their own society in the first few years of true academic independence to learn the system and how it functions, and in later years once they have a strong knowledge and experience in that they'll be able to appreciate the differences of foreign societies and education systems, and that often people who return to canada after an education in the us may not be able to function as well as someone who was educated here). At MANY canadian universities---McGill, UW, UT, Mac, Queens, Western, UBC, etc. (and many more of course) you can and will learn as well as someone who goes to a US university. It's the same concepts (the exception would be in political/law/and some other humanities and social sciences) and you will learn just as well. We're deluding ourselves when we think, 'oh well so and so who went to ______ in the US is smarter/better equipped than so and so who went to _____in canada' and its from this belief of inferiority that we've developed. Later years may matter more as that is when you will be one-on-one with a professor and their experience (and the facilities available to you) are of key importance, but for undergrad, save the money, and get just as good of an education here for four years. i'm glad to see a lot of people on these forums share this view Canada has nothing to offer that can even touch Ivy League schools. That's just the truth. That said, there are plenty of good schools in Canada and for most people they would be best off staying in Canada.
-Stringer
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