This Is Why Canadian Universities Don't Have College Admissions Scandals

Lies.

Lol r1

[quote]“Our process is — I believe for many reasons ― not perfect, but it’s very simple,” Deller told HuffPost. “It’s just, you know, grade point average, and that’s kind of it.”

That's so fucking Canadian I am laughing my ass off.

America is a capitalist empire. Its all about $$$ here.

In Canada, the admissions criteria are less subjective, he said, and an applicant’s acceptance often comes down to whether their high school grades meet the minimum requirements.

The selection process at Canadian schools is heavily weighted towards high school report cards, leaving less wiggle room for the sort of chicanery being alleged in the U.S., an admissions consultant says.

“The competitive landscape is very different in the United States,” said Robert Astroff, president of Astroff Consultants, which helps students prepare for their post-secondary studies. “There’s much less opportunity to game the system in Canada.”

Why are an overwhelming number of the world's most prestigious colleges & universities located in America and not in Canada?

Are grades in Canada standardized, e.g. via nationwide school-leaving exams? Because then I can see that that would be a fair -- if extremely narrow -- criterion.

Otherwise, using grades alone is absurd, even more so than using SAT / ACT scores alone. Barring egregious cheating, at least standardized test scores are, as the name says, standardized and therefore comparable. On the other hand, comparing an A grade at Stuyvesant with an A grade at Podunk Regional High is ludicrous (and that's not even including private prep schools, which run the gamut from Andover to schools that don't even assign grades, or home-schooled kids).

R6:

Because Canada is a backwater with about 1/10 the population

As far as I’m concerned, Canada can have all the fake Chinese students

R8, this so called backwater country you refer to is No. 1 in Best Quality of Life.

I would pick Canada over the US on any given day.

It’s all for you, R9

There are as many Canadians in LA county as in the whole of Canada (save Toronto) because Canada is heaven on earth!

Canada is a shithole, everyone knows that. And now we know they're stupid too.

Deluded.

Rich Canadians are part of the American rat race, on top of the Canadian one.

Wow. You guys make America great again.

R9, then why is it that no one actually wants to live there?

I didn't realize Canada had schools.

I prefer using just GPA or test scores for admittance, but I don't think the US would ever adopt it.

Obviously not real schools, R16.