<p>Not finding any help from others so I decided to give this place a try.
I am a Canadian citizen who goes to high school in the states but I plan on going to Uni. in Canada.
I wanted to enter into Computer Science and was looking around and saw Waterloo, UoT(I used to live near Toronto) and McGill as options. (any other good options?)</p>
<p>But I'm confused about how these Universities look at individuals compared to the states.
I'm entering my Junior year this year and want to get info early to prep myself for the future.</p>
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<li>) One question I had was.. Would I have to pay for tuition as an international student or because I'm Canadian I pay like a regular. </li>
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<p>2.) Another one I had was that this year I'm taking AP US History. I wasn't aware if I was going to go to school in America or Canada until after I signed up for this class. Should I still take it? It's a relatively hard class from what I've heard and I'm honestly a bit scared about it. Will Canadian unis look at this and think better about me that I took the effort to take that class?</p>
<p>3.) How should I prepare as a US high school student... any classes I should take for CS specifically? ACT scores I should get? etc. etc.</p>
<p>4.) What does it mean when they only look at your top 6 grades? Does that mean they don't even care about grade 9,10,11?</p>
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<li><p>As a Canadian citizen, you pay domestic tuition.</p></li>
<li><p>AP U.S. History should be fine, both as an admissions subject and for course credit or advanced standing.</p></li>
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<p>3/4. Requirements vary by institution and by subject.</p>
<p>Your grades will be evaluated as an American applicant, however if admitted you will have Canadian rates (out of province rates for Quebec schools). I know for McGill at least they only look at your gpa from your grade 10, 11 and 12 marks when deciding whether to admit American students.</p>
<p>Here is the USnews top Computer science programs in the world.</p>
<p>Canadian universities are will represented in the top 50 with UofT at #15, University of British Columbia at #27, Waterloo at #34 and McGill at #47</p>
<p>The above listed schools probably offer the most recognized computer science degrees in the US, in particular Toronto comp. sci is well known in academia (there is some interesting research going on there in artificial intelligence in the area of artificial neural networks). Waterloo computer science is also well known in the US tech industries (Microsoft recruits there) and has maybe more of an applied focus than some of the other listed.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone!
I don’t really plan on going out of Ontario just because I won’t be close to my previous home/family.
So I’m looking at UoT, McGill and Waterloo.</p>
<p>As of right now I’m a 3.8 GPA student and have joined a few extracurricular activities.(3)
I’m 4 years of French throughout my HS years and plan on taking AP Calc, AP Physics and another AP English class for 12th grade. My schools sports are all try-outs and its very competitive to get in so I haven’t gotten in sadly.
I plan on doing a lot of volunteer work during the year and summer too.
My school actually doesn’t have any CS related classes sadly Is there anything I could do to make up for that?</p>
<p>I will be taking the SAT this year so whenever my scores come in I’ll see where that makes me.</p>
<p>Do you guys think I should stick with AP US History as of right now or just drop it. I’m worried it will bring my GPA down</p>
<p>Don’t worry about you lack of ECs, aside from UBC no Canadian school even looks at them, unless you are on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Don’t worry US history is fine as an admission subject, McGill for example has it listed as a admissible SATII subject score. Neither Canadian or US history is relevant for CS, so I don’t think any Canadian universities will care.</p>
<p>Only you can say whether AP US history will substantially impact your grades enough that it is worth dropping it.</p>
<p>@tomofboston Because it’s so close to Ontario borders I always forget its in Quebec xD</p>
<p>Man, those ACT/SAT scores are high. I don’t want to get my hopes so high and end up with bad results… what are other unis I should look at in or near Ontario for CS?</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard AP US History brings 2.5+ hours of work a day as homework consistently. I feel like if I got out AP Us history my schedule would look weak compared to others It would be:<br>
Honors Physics
US history (regular)
Honors pre calc and trig
English
French 3
Graphic Arts (easy class) </p>
<p>Senior Yr would be
AP Calc
French 4
Psychology
College Writing
(maybe AP Physics)
and an easy elective like marketing 1 & 2</p>
<p>But that sort of SAT/ACT target scores would render the associated school a safety.</p>
<p>I don’t think dropping APUSH will do that much to be honest… is UMass Amherst an option in the US? You would then not need 28+/1950+ (more like 26+/1800+)</p>
<p>That could be an option but it would be better if i stayed relatively close to Michigan if I did plan on going to school in the US.
Cost will be the main priority too mainly why i’ve looked at Canada mostly.</p>
<p>I checked Toronto’s tuition fees once for internationals and they can be quite high, sometimes over $30 000 per year. McGill’s fees are a bit less. For computer science it seems you can go into either the faculty of Arts, Faculty of science or through the faculty of Arts and Science </p>
<p>Of the three a BA is the least expensive degree of the three at $14,561.70 tuition fee and a total fee of $16,872.46 (includes international health insurance and I believe you might be able to opt out of this and some of the other fees if you want to bring the total down closer to the tuition fees.)
Going through the faculty of Arts and Science will cost $15,410.70 tuition and a total of $17,720.22
Takings CS through the science department (Bsc) is the most expensive of the three at $28,383.00 tuition and total of $30,691.26 (putting it roughly at the same cost as UofT)</p>
<p>If you really have a tight budget by far the cheapest school for Americans is the University of Windsor (just across the Detroit river, so nice and close to Michigan). They recently restructured their tuition rates to give American students the same rates as Canadians, and “US Neighbour fee rates” of only $5000 per semester. The downside of this is that UWindsor has nowhere nearly the level of prestige of the universities listed above.</p>
<p>@namelesstat
I wouldnt have to pay internatl fees because I’m Canadian citizen though</p>
<p>Also anyone else have an opinion on me dropping AP US History
Does an applicant look better if he takes an AP class and does worse B
or if he takes the regular class and does great (A)</p>
<p>This class is getting heavy… 2nd day and ive done 4 hours of homework already total</p>
<p>Lol, sorry forgot about that detail. Toronto is probably the best Canadian school that is in close proximity to Michigan, but it is far from the cheapest Ontario school, even for Canadian students the fees are about $7500- $8000 per year.</p>
<p>Should I be taking both ACT and SAT?
My guidance counselor told me to just take the ACT and that would be all I needed because that’s it gives me a choice on the requirements list on the Unis I wanna go to.</p>
Is there anything I could do to make up for that?</p>