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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it would cause your kid too much trouble. The procedure is certainly going to be less in most companies but it will be a big hurdle. Unless he insists on going around telling everyone that McGill is the Harvard of Canada, if they know about it.[/quote]

This is what it is. McGill would [i]maybe[/i] be a top 30 school if it was in the U.S. (and that's being generous) but American parents who send their kids there love to pretend it's some crowning achievement. I hear "Harvard of Canada" all the time and can't help but feel sad for these parents.

Same, to a lesser extent, for schools like St Andrews and Edinburgh. Sure, they're good UK schools, but why try to put them on a pedestal above our own universities?

People with even an inkling of familiarity with academia know that America is the undisputed top dog for higher education. There's a reason why scholars from around the world are clamoring to get into the top-tier U.S. universities. The research output, infrastructure, support, resources, and $$$ are significantly better at U.S. universities. This trickles down to affect the overall quality of the school and the students these schools are ultimately able to attract. America deserves to get dumped on for a [I]lot[/I] of things, but its universities are not it.[/quote]

I grew up in upstate NY where mcgill is highly regarded and common for people to go to other Canadian schools like university of western Ontario.  I don't recall anyone I know applying to uva or umd.  My sister in law is Canadian and said McGill isn't as highly regarded in Canada as in my town- she went to University of Toronto which is considered the best where she's from.  Reputations are all regional [/quote]

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