<p>As far as difficulty goes. Both schools are quite challenging. There is an unspoken grade ceiling in some of the bigger departments for first and second years.</p>
<p>First off, I don't see how that can be taken as a compliment. It may be difficult to get a better grade, but does that mean the class is more difficult? The ivies are private schools and HYP have tons of grade inflation. UofT is public and I doubt there's a lot of grade inflation, so yes, I do believe that it is harder to get a better grade in UofT. But don't get that confused with saying the classes are harder at UofT.</p>
<p>If anything, there is the opposite at UofT and McGill. The "weeding out" process at these schools is pretty infamous.</p>
<p>Yes I know all about weeding out. Afterall, I'm heading to a school that's infamous for its weeders, too. My point was that it may be difficult to get a good grade, but it doesn't necessarily make it a good thing. It doesn't mean you'll be learning more.</p>
<p>Dude, you should know by now that you don't go to school to learn.</p>
<p>Montreal is an AMAZING city. That is all.</p>
<p>I'm going to Toronto next week for the first time since I was two, so I have no comment.</p>
<p>One more plus for Montreal that rarely gets mentioned:</p>
<p>You can actually find trappist-made chocolate covered blueberries (that is fresh, wild blueberries covered in dark chocolate) in August.</p>
<p>Con: it's really expensive here.
Pro: so tasty...</p>
<p>Well if you are majoring in economics I think it's kind of a no brainer. U of T has one of the top econ departments in the world while McGill is (from all I've read) average compared to other Canadian schools in the field.</p>
<p>But if you are not extremely strong in math, maybe McGill is the better choice, particularly if you want a hope of getting good enough grades to be admitted to grad school. Apparently U of T is horribly competitive and ridiculously hard.</p>
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Only if you avoid Econometrics...</p>
<p>To me Toronto seems like the best choice. This may not be a good reason but Quebec's winters alone are a big turn off. </p>
<p>I am majoring in International Relations which means access to multinational organizations and such is pretty important for experience, and you have that there, a little bit more than you would in Montreal. </p>
<p>Montreal is known for being more 'European' than Toronto which is an all-North American city, I think.
Honestly I don't think either will "open doors" for you more than the other, if that's what you're worried about. Both are good schools.</p>
<p>That being said, people critisize UofT for being impersonal and although this makes sense you also have to consider that after year 1,2 the classes can get considerably smaller depending on your major. The same goes for any larger school. This is also a concern for me, but considering many of the smaller ones (like st FX) are in very isolated areas, I guess coziness is something you may have to give up.
Good Luck to you,
Sasha</p>
<p>You can't avoid econometrics, not even at McGill I don't think. But if you choose Toronto you will be doing much higher level math than econometrics.</p>
<p>Nauru, I don't think you understand, but there's at least one prof of econometrics at McGill who teaches the undergrad class as if the students were well trained in graduate level math and statistics. Even his TAs had no clue what he was talking about...</p>
<p>/tutored someone in that class</p>
<p>Sucks when that happens. (Sounds like my econometrics 2 prof actually) But hey, I've yet to hear of an easy course in econometrics anywhere.</p>