When I got into UBC back in the late 90s, I think you had to be in the high 80s to low 90s. I transferred in from a feeder university college.
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I should also note, one of my classmates in high school was absolutely brilliant and in honours everything. In grade 12 the school counselors put her in regular classes so she could get a higher GPA. Her parents promptly moved her back to honours. We laughed when she got 99 on her honours math test. If she’d been in regular math, she could have had a 100!
I think she ended up going to Western or Queens.
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I was in one of the last cohorts that did OACs (Grade 13) back in the mid 90s.
Low 90s in your OACs got you pretty far in terms of Canadian University admissions.
Your school also mattered back then, but probably a bit less now.
I was in the first graduating class (1967/68) that did not have standard province-wide exams in Grade 13. I remember my first university math class where the prof went around the classroom asking each student what high school they had gone to. Everyone in the class was an Ontario scholar so he judged our academic quality by the high school we graduated from.
My response of “Madoc High School” was met with silence and then he said “next”? Not encouraging.
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I got into UWaterloo Computer Science (arguably at the time, the most competitive program available) with a 79% high school average.
In fairness, the cutoff was way higher than that. I got in because UWaterloo has a high school math test they run across the country (and now around the world) called the Euclid, and I absolutely smoked the test.
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That’s a pretty jerky thing to do imo. Prejudging on the first day?
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Totally agree. It was humiliating for those of us who didn’t go to schools that impressed him. And I was pretty insecure on my first day of university classes. I got my revenge though by graduating with first class honours in my math degree.
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Nice distraction in Canada from Trump’s tariff war but this story probably not on most Americans radar.
Canadian wunderkind will have to wait at least one more time to dethrone Ledecky. Hard to dislike either of them.
Dude, I should be able to read politics without sport spoilers.
Apologies. Fixed for other readers.
Damn that was a race. Pallister tried to do the same thing in the 1500, hanging with Ledecky for as long as she could and made it past 800m, so I thought she could be close but not sub 8:06. And McIntosh was under the old championship record.
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Pleased that at least one of our leaders supports diversity.
Carney marched for about a kilometre along the route and said the Pride parade represents the “essence of Canada,” celebrating diversity in a “very positive way.”
Now I’m seeing ads for US watermelons during the CTV National News. 
I saw a car with an Ontario plate at the local grocery store. I was curious and tempted to go over and ask them how they felt about coming to the US given what’s been going on between the countries, but couldn’t think of an opener that wouldn’t sound confrontational one way or another.
Ontario car did a poor job of parking between the lines.
Must have been from Toronto
Still expecting Carney to rethink that 100% tariff on BYD EVs that he signed along with Biden and the UK way back in…Oct 2024.
There’s free value out there for Canadians, as I discount the value of honoring the special relationship with the uSA down to, let’s say, zero. Just snag the cars and take what’s on offer.
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More strikes coming.
Major headache for Canadian travellers.
My niece and her family were due to fly here (London) on AC on Saturday. They had to rebook with Air Transat for two days later. Ironically she was using credits from an AC flight that was cancelled last winter to pay for this one.
Fortunately almost all our other relatives are flying WestJet or BA to London.
Canada is caught between a rock and a hard place with the US and China. Canada pays dearly for supporting the US on its tariffs against Chinese autos as the Chinese are levying counter-tariffs against us on our key exports (eg. canola) to them.
We need to have a good trading relationship with China as opposing them gets us nothing from the US.