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1. Good brief thread on the difference between Canadian and USA higher ed. To which a little more can be said.
2. The biggest difference between Canadian & USA higher ed is that Canada has many fewer schools and they are roughly equal in quality. You can get an equivalent education almost anywhere. In USA, divide between Harvard and, say, Bob Jones U. is huge.
3. Relatedly, in Canada frat/sorority system is weak. U of Toronto had frats but I din't know anyone who went to one. And athletics is minor. When I was there, Toronto football got, at best, an audience of few thousands
4. SATs are a very small part of Canadian system, where people usually get in based on high school scores (I think SATs are used for foreign students). I never took a SAT.
5. Government funding plays a much bigger part of Canadian higher ed funding, and alumni donations are small. Which means entire social system used to extract alumni funding (sports, reunions, networking, college mystique) is much less significant in Canada.
6. The American system has some advantages -- there is a lot more money in system -- but, in all honesty, it is much less focused on giving people an education than in giving them the right social connections.
