#Canada College List needed, CS program

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spiral harness
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i think lot of people have ECs like research papers and lot of internships and non profit orgs

feral shard
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Hey there! As you already saw the title, I guess, no other explanation is needed here ngl

Location/Region: Canada, Near Toronto [or in the Ontario province].

Major: Computer Science

GPA: 4.89 / 5

Curriculum: Honestly, balanced seems fine. A good balance between social life and academics. Not a hardcore kill social life college tho.

Size: Not really that important.

Costs: I am looking for a budget friendly college.

Schools you're currently looking at (if any): I am utterly clueless as sad as it might sound

Additional: Not really. I am just willing to look for a good college but yet budget friendly and not too strict. And as I stated, near Toronto would be great.

Cheers, really hoping to get some good recommendations :Cry:

feral shard
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Canada College List needed, CS program

floral flint
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utoronto and uwaterloo! good CS programs

gusty reef
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^ waterloo is prob considered the golden standards for cs
there couple wloo kids for my summer internship and they r ridiculously cracked

wanton nebula
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check out alberta! go GUBAs!!!!

feral shard
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@floral flint @gusty reef is waterloo affordable tho? :') like do they provide much sholarships?

feral shard
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Thanks for the help tho!

gusty reef
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but honestly that's nothing imo for cs degreee

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like if u work hard u can easily make around 26,000-40,000 cad per internships/co-op

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plus cs bonuses r usually in the 100,000 if ur good so for 20k/yr i think price is trivial

feral shard
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Well the payment is important for me because I come from a third world country so, yeah. It be bit of a toll to carry out that much

gusty reef
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yeah def dont take out loans then

floral flint
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i know they give scholarships to international students but idk if it's for 4 years

vague python
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Simon fraser maybe?

eternal wagon
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No

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SFU is like

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The other side of Canada lmao

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Cs schools “near Toronto”

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UofT is in downtown Toronto (their st George campus, but they have UofT Mississauga and UofT Scarborough maybe both 1hour to 1 hour and a half away from downtown Toronto)

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There is also TMU (formerly known as Ryerson University)

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And then there is york which is in the Toronto area

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We have Carleton which is also decent for cs and has a dev degree but it’s not close to Toronto. It’s located in ottawa and is maybe 8 ish hours away from toronto

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Guelph is good, small campus and class size, profs are decent, best food for uni in Canada apparently. It’s maybe 2 hour ish away from downtown Toronto, but 45 from toronto in general ish ?

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And then ofc waterloo which is 2 hour ish away from downtown Toronto and 1 hour away from toronto. Considered to be the best of the best for cs here and amazing coop they also have good scholarships especially if you did their math and cs competitions in HS

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I live in Toronto but not the downtown part so these are rough approximations

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Tldr if your grades are really good and you want the best of the best apply to waterloo and UofT

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I think waterloo cares a bit more about extra curricular (UofT doesn’t give a shit) but you don’t need to have done anything insane

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Waterloo also has SWE which is a very popular major for like a cs and comp Eng curriculum combined

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Ping if you have any more questions and I’d be happy to answer

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Some more info

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Waterloo has an integrated business and cs program with Laurier meaning you would get a dual degree (cs at UW and business at LAURIER)

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UofT is also stellar for cs but you actually have to declare cs your second year, if you do not pass a certain grade threshold your first year, you need to either redo that year again or pick another major

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I wouldn’t say UofT or waterloo have amazing social lives

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I mean I know the kids at waterloo go to Laurier for parties and shit

feral shard
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@eternal wagon hey man thats a bunch, you gave me a lot of reallly useful infos. I AM going to give it a go at Waterloo after results and just, really thanks alot

eternal wagon
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Oh and fyi if you had both waterloo and UofT waterloo 100 percent would have gone with

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People go crazy over waterloo cs and although UofT is great, waterloo seems slightly stress free, especially cause your gaurenteed great co op placement and your major!

feral shard