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[quote=Anonymous]Are there downsides to sending your kid to school in Canada?

Looking at the websites, it seems like one could go to a good name school in Canada for less money than anything but an instate school in the US.  You can use your 529, apply for US government aid, get workstudy, or grants if you apply (except they call them "bursaries, which sounds much more sophisticated!).

The admissions process also seems much less crazy.  The websites basically list GPAs and SATs and if you meet their requirements you can be confident that you'll get in, with much less emphasis on things like essays, and interviews, and extracurriculars.

So, I wonder if there's a downside, other than perhaps weather.  Is it harder to get a job if you come back to the states with an engineering degree that says "Waterloo" instead of "Penn State"? Is it harder to get into Law School in the US if your undergraduate says McGill instead of Northwestern?  Are there other downsides I'm not thinking of?

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