<p>UIUC is pretty much a place for MIT/Stanford/Berkeley Rejects !! </p>
<p>To the OP: Mcgill hands down , North America is a better place for all the factors you mentioned , and McGill pretty much has similar recruiting to a high end school in the US. SMU is not even in the picture quite honestly speaking.</p>
<p>what about comparing Sydney Uni, UNSW, McGill, York, UBC-Okanagan, UBC-Vancouver, Queens, SFU?</p>
<p>trying to bring up this thread back to the first page for fellow Singaporeans. So a liberal arts college are more generous with aids? what about Canadian universities?</p>
<p>Wega007:
From your list, I can separated into tier1 & 2. </p>
<p>Tier1: McGill, UBC- Vancouver, Queens. </p>
<p>In Between: York, Sydney</p>
<p>Tier2: SFU</p>
<p>never heard of UBC Okanagan. UNSW -? no idea... not that good.</p>
<p>U might want to visit them and try for scholarships if your grades are good.
at least they do offer more scholarships compare to American unis for international students.
moreover Canadian Universities tend to be over looked by many International students. Fewer competition might be good!</p>
<p>UBC- Okanagan just open last yr.</p>
<p>wega,</p>
<p>trying to fill up whatever naff didnt say.</p>
<p>unsw - good australian school. the key-word being australian. a lot of internationals + asians.</p>
<p>ubc o - new campus, very far away from civilisation. offered my bff a huge scholarship if he would go. fyi, he got rejected at the main ubc campus.</p>
<p>Seem like people here don't seem to rate Australian Schools being better than Canadian School.</p>
<p>yah, UBC-O requirement is lower. so is your BF heading that way?</p>
<p>eh, my bff. best friend forever haha. bf's going to a USA college (he's american). and no, he went to sfu instead. sfu is good for commerce (or so he tells me). any research that i have done about canadian schools are limited to the big names</p>