<p>I have no hook, that's what i'm worried about. A lot of ppl here are nationally recognized in some area, that's intimidating.</p>
<p>nope not me</p>
<p>The opportunities for research and such depend on where you live. For example, if you're in Toronto, then there's U of T's mentorship program, which allows a small number of students to do research in a specific area.</p>
<p>Are doing intern and doing research different things?
Isn't it that if you are an intern you are helping out in the lab, and doing research is where you actually investigate a thesis?</p>
<p>hajen, i'm from stinky, flat, stupid, gay saskatchwan. Where are you from?</p>
<p>lol im frm toronto</p>
<p>toronto eh, sorry to say this, but i've been there, and it's awfully polluted. And homeless people are everywhere(not that i have anything against them of course). Yea, so you thinking of applying to an ivy?</p>
<p>what sort of average do you think you would need for harvard if not an urm, rich, or recruited athlete? 90+? 95+?</p>
<p>95+ i think, but if yer test scores are high, then the admission folks might consider the difficulty level of yer school.</p>
<p>ok, wow, there's only one person in our class with 95+ (something like 95.3 and he's a mathematical genius)</p>
<p>ya toronto is very urban of course, but i actually live in the suburbs, i actually go to uoft im thinking of transferring</p>
<p>oh, so you're a university student, i see. No wonder i sensed so much maturity(no sarcasm here). I'm a reckless, but grade obssesed high school soph. Anyway hajen, are you transferring to ivies?</p>
<p>i would like to yes, but "am" i, highly doubt it!</p>
<p>I'm a dual citizen between the US and Canada...does that count?</p>
<p>In canadian schools, it is truly much harder to have the upper 90s scores many of us have in the US. It takes a lot more from the British school system, in that there is more difficult material, and lower scores. I used to live in T.O., and just recently moved to NC, and I was really surprised that everything here is in multiple choice format! Even the math tests! You dont have that in Canada. However, in Canadian schools 80-100 is considered an A, vs the 90-100 or 93-100 A's in the US. I guess in Canada, there is more dependence upon the teacher you have. I had a math teacher that required you to explain everything, which was subjective, and had extremely challenging problems on the tests--I NEVER made a perfect score on her test. This is from a person that makes 100+ on tests in the US. When she calculates your final score, it would be something that she would conjure up (because it would be a combo of 3+, 4's, 4-, etc. and would allow for exaggeration to your benefit or not. Even IF it was perfect, she would only give a level 4 (87% when it counts on the report card, because they have benchmarks, rather than true percentiles. Therefore, A/A+=87%, A-=82%, B+=78%, etc.). She said she would never give a 100, because she believed that nobody was "perfect". Other teachers WOULD give 4+(=100s) and their tests would be much easier and require no explanations, although still no multiple choice. In contrast, American tests are like 5+2. There are hardly any problems that require reading, and if so, very minimal. And also, some teachers (not all) hand out extra credit like candy on Halloween (no ec in Canada, at all). Therefore, we get better grades than canadians, however the contrasting grades are weighed similarly. Just my 0.02$. Just a side note... the NC school im in is one of the best in the country, and the best in Mecklenburg (Charlotte area) county.</p>
<p>geez, you sure were unlucky to have such a ***** for a teacher. But, yea, teachers in canada are rather strict cough<em>stupid</em> aren't they. My english teacher told me that giving me the 98% on this of mice and men assignment, just cause it was early in the year. Although no one else got above the 90's, I only got that mark cause i put a lot of effort into it. God almighty, canadian teachers are seriously hard. One might wonder, do they do that cause they're afraid us kids are smarter than they are?</p>
<p>yes i definitely agree xyz2004slc, in canadian schools generally, in my school atleast, a 90 was cherished, in calculus a 70 was in the top 10% of all seniors, and a mark above 93 is extremely rare. then in university, the marks only drop (rather drastically) lol.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the ivies's policy on reviewing canadian apps? I read on another thread that Cornell would consider 90s good, what about the other ivies? Did anybody email or contact the ivies and ask?</p>
<p>Btw, are you guys applying to any summer programs this summer? In US there are so many summer programs offered by universities, and in Canada i can't find anything, except Shad Valley. Is anybody applying to that or something else?</p>
<p>My private american school does not give top grades. We actually have a different grading scale to emphasize that our grades do not equate.
Basically NO ONE has the 4.0 equivalent, and honor roll is about a 3.0. Kids a bit lower than 3.0 have gotten into selective schools like Wash U like it were a piece of cake. If you are at about a 3.5 you are on par for Harvard and Stanford acceptees.
If you take it that way then it is likely that Harvard will take your particular school in consideration. Often times schools provide grade distribution sheets. They will consider that your school grades harder, and at many ivies they will see that as a better education.</p>