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[quote=Anonymous]DD applied to and was accepted at multiple UK and Canadian colleges, but she chose to stay in the US and take a year abroad instead.

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[list]UK 3 year programs pretty much required you to declare a major on day one and stay there.  Didn't think DD wanted to commit so early (she has since changed her major twice here).  
St Andrews has a 4 yr plan that gives an MA at the end of the 4th year that seemed to be mostly US students.
Most US students seemed to be at UofT or McGill; in the UK it was St Andrews, Oxbridge, and U of Edinburgh.  Not so much the schools in smaller cities (Glasgow, Bristol, Belfast).  That could be a good thing or a bad thing.
Canada has demanding and easy schools, just like US.  They did offer financial aid (some was substantial).  
Some of the Canadian schools are HUGE (think SEC-type big).  They do NOT offer the handholding that some of the US schools do; they seemed very sink or swim.
The cold was not an issue but the long dark winter days were.
Transportation to Canadian schools other than McGill or UofT could be lengthy.[/list]
The US kids we saw on campuses all seemed very happy, though.  In fact our tour guide in Toronto was from Fairfax...
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