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[quote=Anonymous]St George is world class, perennially ranked top 20 globally, higher than colleges like Brown, Dartmouth and Rice in the U.S., lower than HYPMS Penn Hopkins, Oxbridge, Imperial College, LSE and not much else. It’s #1 in Canada but everyone knows unofficially they only count the St George campus, not Scarborough and Mississauga. The latter two serve 2 main purposes: serve local commuter students and lower-stats international students who pay a higher tuition to help fund the massive amount of research at St George.

The undergrad experience at U of T St George is highly rigorous, sink or swim, no hand holding. They treat you very much like an adult who chose learning as your current profession, not like a student the way we think of them here. They weed out a lot of kids in year one (or “Frosh year”; no one says freshmen sophomore junior senior in Canada), up to 25%. And there’s not much partying, so don’t apply if you’re looking for the typical American fun college experience. It’s challenging but not cut-throat hunger games if you know what I mean. Students are all nice and just competing with themselves; teaching staff and research opportunities are incredible. Several high profile tenure professors from Yale, Harvard and MIT left for U of Toronto, a couple explicitly said publicly that the move was partly because of Trump.

In case this is a factor: weed is legal and very no big deal in Toronto, you could smell it everywhere. [/quote]

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