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What the hell is Canada?
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<p>America's hat.</p>
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Supern3rd I don't think cold weather would be a Turn off.....
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I'm sure it is a turn off for a lot of Americans. It is a turn off for me.</p>
<p>"As i know, Waterloo University is very good at CS"</p>
<p>That is true. They were the home of several esteemed compilers Watcom, Watfor and Watfiv. The Maple computer algebra system that I use intermittently comes from Waterloo. </p>
<p>However, outside Canada, there are have strong competitors. MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Rice and probably a dozen others would be stronger at CS. In Asia, all seven IITs and BIT would be stronger at CS than Waterloo. And even here in Australia, UNSW would be stronger in CS.</p>
<p>And when you add in the virtual unemployability of foreign graduates in Canada, the decision is pretty easy. Why go to Canada, freeze in the cold, study at a university that is not as good as the best in your own country and then end up without a job in Canada and a degree from a relatively unknown university ?</p>
<p>Make no mistake, I think that Canada is a great place and has several good universities. However, it is entirely rational for foreign undergraduates and graduates to avoid their universities.</p>
<p>It's hard to judge the number of international students at Canadian universities, because many of the "domestic" students are actually international and are only Canadian by their immigration status.</p>
<p>Canada gives out Permanent Residency and citizenship like candy so there's no way of knowing whether the person sitting next to you speaking Korean who barely knows English wearing Korean fashion and having no non-Korean friends is an international student or a Canadian citizen paying cheap tuition.</p>
<p>If you want to come to Canada to study, fill out an immigration application two years before you intend to go into a university. Then when you get your permanent residency, stay in Canada for a year so that you qualify as a domestic student, then apply for Canadian citizenship in your third year of studies.</p>