What about University of Waterloo?

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<p>I am an international students in Canada and, honestly, I love this country. I know I am capable to university like Princeton but the point is: I love Canada. I am planning to study science/ math as, currently, I am having a job in the chemical engineer department at University of British Columbia, despite I am only sixteen. However, my focus is on mathematics and physics (i wish to be a professor and do researches) and I heard that university of waterloo has a pretty good national reputation is these fields. Also, I consider that nobel laureate Anthony James Leggett has accepted a position in the faculty of quantum computing in waterloo: which tells me this university is highly recognized in the field of modern science. Also, there are few research institutes around university of waterloo and those institutes are doing leading research in science (one such: perimeter institute for theoretical physics). Moreover, there are lots of researchers in those institues who are graduated from ivy league universities or top notch universities in UK. </p>

<p>And then, here my question comes: is it worth to go to university of waterloo instead of ivy leagua university?
(consider the fact that I hope to do my post-grad in uk/ waterloo/ivy league)</p>

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<p>Wow, University of Waterloo????? That must be the worst college name on earth....</p>

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<p>It's located in Waterloo, which happens to be the same name of where Napoleon met his downfall. =p</p>

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<p>lol, RESPEKT......</p>

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<p>Your grad school depends on how well u do in undergrad. If u think u'll do better at an ivy go there. If you think u'll succeed more at waterloo stay there.</p>

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<p>kit4hk-- for what its worth, I'm in the environmental business in the states & Waterloo has a great reputation among all North American schools in environmental, including compared to those lofty ivies. Waterloo happens to have some very well-respected researchers in my field. As you have pointed out, Waterloo is very strong in the sciences & engineering in general. I visited there a couple of times in the 90's & the campus was really being built up with labs, etc. The campus is very new & didn't appeal to me personally nor did the surrounding area, but i think most of Waterloo's science/eng dept's would provide a great education. I think if you really want to get into the detail, you should investigate various schools' departments to compare to Waterloo's....prof's research interests etc.</p>