haha I'll keep that in mind.Originally Posted by MK27
It's a mountain bike mecca, like the north shore (almost). Miles and miles and miles of trails thru the endowment lands. Just don't go down the north side, it ends at the wrong end of a gun range
I am paying about $4000 per term, too, but scholarships covered half of that for my first year.Vis, differences in school systems, consider this: I got to "the best school in the country" for $4000 CDN per semester, no scholarship. I was just looking at the NYU web site (which is pretty reputable): undergrad tuition for the fall term (??!) starts at $38,756 US.
Totally crazy! Do some "Microsoft Math" on that one!
I thought about going to an American university, too, but couldn't be bothered with SAT (Stupid American Test), and they charge about 4x the tuition for foreigners. I considered University of Toronto as well, which appears to be the "best" university at the current time, but it's covered in snow 75% of the year... and is going to cost me a few times more (I did apply for fun and got accepted, though, and I didn't even send them all the required grades).
I don't think "good" schools matter as much nowadays. There was a "research" published on the Macleans magazine (they regularly rank Canadian universities based on a lot of things) a while ago that agrees with me. They first compared Harvard (or another Ivy league school) students' average salaries some years after graduation to that of another, a lot less known school. There was a significant difference. And then, they compared the salaries of the same Harvard kids, with people who got accepted into Harvard, but went to the little known school for some reason. And they saw no difference.
It's the students that matter. Schools can only do so much.
