<p>How do Canadian Schools (Toronto, McGill, UBC) stack up against the top tier schools in America? They're cheaper(even at int. rates), and all of my science teachers have told me that Toronto and Mcgill stack up with Duke, Stanford, Penn, etc.</p>
<p>your teacher is right in terms of academic rigour...but id hesitate to recommend uoft or mcgill over stanford and duke, purely because of the name recognition/quality of professor interaction/community spirit. UofT and McGill are huge schools and youll be completely lost...count on your prof not knowing you. But yes they are terrific schools...Queen's probably has the most professor/instructor interaction and most school spirit of the canadian schools but even then its not comparable with spirit-filled US schools.</p>