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[quote=Anonymous]If your daughter is a citizen but has never been resident in Canada, then her tuition rate at McGill would end up being the in-province one, which is about $2,500 (Canadian!). That is tough to argue with (cheaper than most other Canadian citizens pay).

The top Canadian Universities have historically been the University of Toronto and McGill. In the last 20 or 30 years, the University of British Columbia has also been on the rise, and the University of Waterloo is now very well respected, especially in computer science (it rose with RIM/Blackberry, and large tech firms now recruit heavily at Waterloo). There are a lot of other good universities that are less well known outside of Canada (Queens, Dalhousie, Simon Fraser, etc., etc.).

To a decent approximation, it's best to think of the better Canadian Universities like top US state flagships. They are world class institutions, but they are big (U of T is particularly massive) public systems and there is not a lot of hand-holding. Students are expected to be functioning adults and advocate for themselves. Legal drinking ages are low by US standards. Sports is nowhere near as big of a thing.

The admission process is very straightforward. Standardized test scores and academic transcript are it (not sure what allowances they are making for SAT/ACT and covid issues). No sports admits, no letters of recommendation, no essays, no hooks, no legacy, no "holistic admission process". As a result, the admission rates are a little misleading from a US perspective. McGill, for example, has a relatively high admission rate, but that's because almost nobody applies unless they have really stellar grades.[/quote]

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