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Old 03-14-2008, 10:49 AM
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Apparently that has not been made clear to any of the people that actually rank universities, heh heh

So you seem to be alone in your opinion.
Actually, the people who did the ranking, the one you showed me, seem to agree with me. If you look at the whole ranking, and the stats they provided, it shows the per capita we have more than you. Yet you continue to ignore the rest of the ranking, why?


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Not as often as they come here.
Since the US has a higher carrying capacity, you are probably right. But absolute numbers mean nothing. What matters is the application rates and acceptance rates of foreign students, I have no doubt that these rates are higher in Canada than in the US.


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They might. But if they want the best, they dont go to Canada.
If they consider anything in the top-500 the best, then they probably would come to Canada.

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I dont recall arguing otherwise. I never said Canada was a third world country where education was concerned. You were the one claiming Canadian education is better than in America. Obviously it is not at the university level. That was my only argument.
You claimed that your universities were superior than Canadian ones, before I ever joined the argument. Given it was an outrageous claim, I decided to disprove it.

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This is one of the few piѕѕing contests on here that was not started by me. You made a claim, and I explained to you why your claim was wrong, and provided evidence.
So because I didn't let you get away with a random remark about your universities being superior, I somehow started the contest. Either way, it appears you have lost the contest.


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Oh yeah, if you take away all our best universities, we cant compete, heh heh.
Theres a reason why they ranked the top-500, because they believed that those were the best. Look at the whole rankings and do the simple math and you will get the truth.
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