I figured you probably had enough math if you have an AA, and I’m glad to hear you will.
Ontario is sadly behind most other places in making it easy to transition between community college and university, so I’m not surprised they’re giving you trouble. When I moved to BC for school I was amazed that many of my classmates had gone to college for a year or two to get prerequisites done for cheap, which is not really possible in Ontario where higher education is stuck in a sharp vocational/academic divide.
I didn’t suggest it because I assumed you were looking particularly for the prestige of U of T, but if Toronto itself drew you, there are two other universities (York and Ryerson). I’ve heard that York is slightly less expensive for students from the U.S. and I’ve heard of them taking “unconventional” students that U of T wouldn’t. Of course, the payoff is in the complete lack of name recognition in the U.S.
Still, it sounds like you’ve made a good decision. I’m prejudiced but I hope you do make it to Toronto for your grad degrees. I just wanted to agree and commiserate that it’s stupidly hard to transfer credits in Ontario.
McGill graduate here. I was Canadian at the time I applied and attended. I’ve since added a US passport and applied having graduated from an American high school.
There are a lot of Americans at U of T, McGill and UBC. The difficulty isn’t really related to you being American. McGill loved international students because they could charge a higher tuition since (at that time, have no idea whether they increased it) the tuition for Canadians was ridiculously low. However, you’ll need the scores and grades to get in as these schools are rather difficult to get into even for Canadians.
Also, I never met anyone who only transferred in for the last two years of school . However, I only went to school in Canada up to 6th grade, so I have no idea what their CC situation is.
At U of T international students can apply for a Differential Fee Waiver which will cut your tuition to that of an Ontario student. I got one but I was very lucky to do so.
Really? I did Grade 13 without any math. As I recall, I took 2 English courses, History, Geography, Economics and Biology, passed 'em all and got my OSSGHD.
As to Americans going to school in Canada, be advised that these days education is viewed as a business and if you got the bucks, you’re pretty much in.
Oh, all the courses, and the entire grade, were voluntary. People picked courses according to the requirements of their planned university programs. I was heading for architecture school; if I had decided to go to art school, I could have loaded up on just writing, languages and art. But I like math.
When I moved to BC for school I was amazed that many of my classmates had gone to college for a year or two to get prerequisites done for cheap, which is not really possible in Ontario where higher education is stuck in a sharp vocational/academic divide.
I just wanted to agree and commiserate that it’s stupidly hard to transfer credits in Ontario.