How competitive are international admissions to Canadian universities?

Applying to College
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<p>Particularly for students from the United States. I've been doing as much research as I can but it's still a little cloudy...</p>

<p>What can you tell me about what admissions officers look for from the University of Toronto, Queen's University, University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia? How important are SAT scores?</p>

<p>Also, how do these universities weight GPA's from American high schools? For example, does a 3.6 automatically get converted to a 90 average?</p>

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<p>Anyone know anything?</p>

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<p>SAT scores are important for only certain, more competitive universities (McGill, Queen’s). Admission to these places shouldn’t be too hard if you have a 90 average though. Just keep in mind: Queen’s (requires a supplemental form) and McGill are a lot more competitive than other Canadian Universities and should be your reaches.</p>

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<p>^ U of T (University of Toronto) and University of Waterloo are also great schools that are generally more competitive than other Canadian ones. Note that Canadian schools literally just admit ‘by the numbers’. Therefore, if you have a 3.8+ UW and a decent SAT score, there’s nothing much to worry about.</p>

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<p>What about Alberta, calgary, simon fraser and mcmaster??
Im international student from pakistan and applying to North american universities for undergrad in civil engineering…

  1. Can anybody tell what is the process of selection of these universities?
  2. History and reputation of these universities??
  3. N also the campus life… Is it enjoyable as in united states?? </p>

<p>Do tell about other good universities in ontario and quebec</p>

<p>P.S. Im not applying to mcgill, waterloo and toronto… I like british columbia but it is immensely competitive, i think…
I got BBB in A’levels… I hav some good leadership certificates and good GPA history, but bad Critical reading and writing scores, good in math… :)</p>

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<p>Are these universities really better than state univs of US…??
I don’t think that they are really paid more than grads of U-minnesota or SUNY-stony brook etc</p>