jy9626Obviously your friends must be engineering students at U of T, right?
Did you even read about my paragraph on Trinity College at U of T?
McGill and Queens are more selective? How come then, Trinity's entering average is higher than McGill's? Why is it that Trinity's entering average is 91 whereas McGill's is 90?
'Just check out Maclean's rankings'? Are you dumb?
U of T was ranked 1st by Maclean's for 12 years in a row, 1994~2005.
U of T and several other universities including UBC stopped giving Maclean's their data since 2006. This could be a reason why McGill has been 1st since that year.
Maclean's med/doctoral rankings, by the way, are not rankings of undergrad schools. There has not been any ranking in Canada that measured the qualities of undergrad schools.
In terms of grad/professional schools, U of T has the most selective law school (fact) and med school (arguable).
Plus, someone who nearly failed her IB Chemistry went to McGill, by the way. McGill isn't really that selective either. I saw their cutting scores, average scores and all. But I was well above them.
When you say something like "U of T is not selective at all", would you expand and elaborate a bit more than that? There isn't any evidence backing up your assertion. Admittedly, it's not hard to get into U of T on the whole, but getting into one college, namely, Trinity College, is very hard. (McGill students know this too btw) There are various levels of students at U of T, but at Trinity, the standards are high, arguably the highest in Canada.
I don't think any normal U of T student would say that U of T's engineering is excellent but other programs are mediocre. All the rankings that exist on this planet speak for themselves. Every single ranking, every single departmental/subject-focused ranking that exists ranks U of T among the best. (usually within top 30 globally) THES (Times) World University ranking has been placing U of T under top 20 for every subject field since 2007. (Only Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Berkeley and UCLA managed to do this)
Economics (John Kenneth Galbraith), literature (Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, John McCrae..), politics (produced the most number of PMs and Govs-general), natural sciences (affiliated with the most number of Nobel laureates in Canada) ... Just every single field really.
Furthermore, and lastly, at U of T, it is extremely difficult to graduate with a high GPA. (or even generally, graduating within 4 yrs is considered hard.) There has even been one newspaper article (of the Globe and Mail), which compared how Harvard is difficult to get into, whereas U of T is about as difficult to get out of. The article was written by a journalist who studied at both Harvard and U of T.