@Midwestmomofboys Thanks for the info re your son’s experience esp with the recruiting process spring of 10th grade. Our son is in a program (statewide team) that preps players for the college recruiting process and he’s done an id camp with info sessions, but the thought of meeting with a coach during a visit is very scary to him particularly if he’s checking out the school to see if he might be interested.
@bouders Can you tell me about you D’s experience with math at Waterloo? What’s the program been like? Are they equally strong in pure and applied math? Are professors interested in undergrads? At my alma mater (famous for math), the profs didn’t seem remotely interested in undergrads which is why I ended up in engineering which was very focused on undergrads. I then went into applied math (though not in a math dept) in grad school.
Also what has been your S’s impression of U of T? The reputation is that grading is brutal and you are treated like a #. Of course, UW students say similar at least about being a #. I suspect that S would find a big school exciting rather than intimidating. UBC is huge and he liked that.