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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Canadian colleges don’t look at low acceptance rates as a good thing.  Once it gets close to a certain threshold, they increase the seats.

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Why is that not the same in the USA? Is there a governing body that requires that? Or is it just cultural [/quote]

Cultural. I’m the Canadian-American PP. We actually went to university in the U.S. because we were excited about the different level of competition and energy (for better or for worse, in hindsight). Competition as a societal mindset in Canada is not really the same in the U.S. There are a lot of reasons for it, but there is less pressure on wage earners because of the different way healthcare is structured, mortgages work differently, public schools are funded differently (so there is slightly less pressure to squeeze into the best possible neighborhood), and for a long time elite status was not really accessible through hard work- you were either from certain old families or you weren’t. It’s mostly gone down, but when I was growing up there was still a very commonwealth/British mindset of never standing out and being reserved and collected. Flashy wealth and trying hard were looked down on.[/quote]

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