<p>Can someone give me some advise , please</p>
<p>Please give more information, such as:</p>
<p>academic interest
type of school preferred (eg. size, vibe of student body, distance from home, etc.)
cost of attendance
pros and cons as you/your child see it</p>
<p>The area of study would be the sciences got accepted to
honors program with a scholarship to St. Johns. The
size is not an issue nor is the distance from home.
The program mainly is with the programs both of them are good and something that my child wants to do.</p>
<p>“The sciences” is not such a precise interest.</p>
<p>I’m sure a good student in the St. Johns honors program can learn basic science and put himself in a decent position to apply to medical school. I’m less certain about PhD programs, but it is probably possible.</p>
<p>Toronto is much bigger, and it has something of a sink-or-swim model – people are allowed to flunk out. (Although I think that’s less common now than it was a decade ago.) Introductory classes are huge and impersonal. But the ceiling at Toronto is waaaaaaay higher than it is at St. Johns. Toronto is a world-class research university, one of the the top two such universities in what is after all a fairly important country. It’s pretty much equivalent to the top tier of public universities in the U.S., other than Berkeley and Michigan – say UCLA or UNC. </p>
<p>St. Johns isn’t remotely in that class. That doesn’t mean that every student at Toronto is better-educated than every student at St. Johns. But it does mean that a student who has talent, works hard, and can take full advantage of the opportunities offered at Toronto is likely to be well ahead of the equivalent student at St. Johns. I suspect the competition at Toronto is greater, too. It’s drawing top students from all over Canada, and good students from a lot of the Northeastern US and Asia. St. Johns gets a lot of good students in the New York area (where there are a lot of good students, to be sure), but even locally it faces a lot of competition for those students, and it has very little draw outside the New York metropolitan area.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. The precise area is toxicology</p>