university of British Columbia

I am here to share my experience. I did A-Level in England, scored AAAB, and finally I end up in UBC this September. I have also got into KCL, Southampton, SOAS, Queen Mary in the UK. The reason to make the decision was I thought North America have much more opportunities and so on. The reason why Canada is because Canadian Universities consider British based education, no SAT requirement, they do accept A-Levels instead of SAT, and you can even get transfer credits for them. However, the Universities in Canada is four years, and it is true that you will lose all you friends back to England (I know it is really painful), you need a long period to gain new friends. There isn't much different of living in Vancouver, however you still need to face a new environment. Vancouver is not as expensive as London, I think is affordable. For example, lunch for about CAD$10 (5 pounds) you can eat for a really good one. The university life in UBC I think it likes the most of good universities in the world, study is stressful and hard. Hope this helps.

I am here to share my experience. I did A-Level in England, scored AAAB, and finally I end up in UBC this September. I have also got into KCL, Southampton, SOAS, Queen Mary in the UK. The reason to make the decision was I thought North America have much more opportunities and so on. The reason why Canada is because Canadian Universities consider British based education, no SAT requirement, they do accept A-Levels instead of SAT, and you can even get transfer credits for them. However, the Universities in Canada is four years, and it is true that you will lose all you friends back to England (I know it is really painful), you need a long period to gain new friends. There isn't much different of living in Vancouver, however you still need to face a new environment. Vancouver is not as expensive as London, I think is affordable. For example, lunch for about CAD$10 (5 pounds) you can eat for a really good one. The university life in UBC I think it likes the most of good universities in the world, study is stressful and hard. Hope this helps.

Hey marcoboy1818I see that you are an international student at the UBC
I am applying to the very same university this year and I was hoping you could help out a fellow international applicant
First of all I would like to ask about the living costs per year in Vancouver
Mehodax

Thank you. I want to know about student life. As I will be moving to a new place and almost not keep in touch with old friends, I want to know how the people are there. I don't want a dull or not friendly student body with not much activity and study whole time . Obviously, Studying is the main reason for attending a great university like UBC, apart from its glorious academic ranking I was expecting that UBC would be of more friendly people who are social or something not just have a boring 4 year and few friends. Looking forward for your reply

Hey,

True tho, that moving to a new environment can be awful in the beginning. For me, I have lost all my baes and boys TT, lose of old friends is something you need to consider about. However, in a good way, people here are nice, staffs and students are friendly. Weekly parties and club activities are uncalcuatbse. It is a good university, and you will only panic in the first two weeks, once you get used to it, then enjoy UBC! Making friend in University is generally different to high school, so you will be fine. Again, you will find academic work is quite a lot in the beginning, be when u get used to it, then it's okay. However, you will definitely have time to have fun outside school or nigh life.

Hope you application goes smoothly.

Hot Marc