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02-11-2011, 11:13 AM
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#76 | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by taylor192 You can get into university with a D average from high school. That is sad - it is nolonger about "higher education", its about pumping out as many degrees to continually get more funding. | i dont think any full fledged canadian university accept borderline failure students.
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02-11-2011, 11:28 AM
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#77 | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Originally Posted by taylor192 You can get into university with a D average from high school. That is sad - it is nolonger about "higher education", its about pumping out as many degrees to continually get more funding. | For Colleges and these University/College hybrids yes. For Universities the bulk of their funding comes from research dollars. This is why it's easier to get into Douglas or Langera than it is to get into UBC.
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02-11-2011, 01:25 PM
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#78 | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Lomac I was accepted to University of York in England. My cost as an international student including living fees? $130,000 for a 4 year degree condensed into 3 years. Ouch. And students over there ate complaining about the recent domestic cost of tuition increase? Lol Posted via RS Mobile | Damn that's pretty nice man. You had any scholarships or was that sum amount basically from otu of pocket?
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02-11-2011, 10:33 PM
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#79 | I don't get it
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why does it seem as though when education was well funded the NDP was in power?
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02-11-2011, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero i dont think any full fledged canadian university accept borderline failure students. | Athabasca University has no entrance requirements.
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02-12-2011, 04:08 AM
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Originally Posted by suzuka84 why does it seem as though when education was well funded the NDP was in power? | Everything is well funded when you throw it on your credit card and just pay the interest. Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker Athabasca University has no entrance requirements. | Well, cash > grades.
I think you can weasel your way into some MBA programs with enough cash.
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02-12-2011, 04:11 AM
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#82 | My homepage has been set to RS
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Originally Posted by Ulic Qel-Droma they should just stop giving out student loans.
and aiming for "higher" education should be a lower priority, cuz really, it's a real shitty investment. | some programs have a pretty good payoff
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02-14-2011, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by GabAlmighty Damn that's pretty nice man. You had any scholarships or was that sum amount basically from otu of pocket? | That would have been basically out of pocket. I opted out of going for a couple years, but the Uni still has my spot on hold. I'm just not sure I can justify that price for the chosen field.
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02-14-2011, 12:51 PM
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#84 | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by Lomac My cost as an international student including living fees? $130,000 for a 4 year degree condensed into 3 years. Posted via RS Mobile | sounds about right for even out-of-state students studying in the US. What field if you don't mind me asking? Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker Athabasca University has no entrance requirements. | full-fledged as in SFU, Queens, McGill, Waterloo etc...not some distance-ed online 'university'
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02-14-2011, 02:44 PM
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#85 | Ask me about how I answered the question "How fat is TOO fat?"
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Originally Posted by Nightwalker Athabasca University has no entrance requirements. | How is it a University? Somewhat off-topic, but how does an institution achieve a "University" status?
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02-14-2011, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero sounds about right for even out-of-state students studying in the US. What field if you don't mind me asking?' | Forensic archaeology and biomedial anthropology. York is/was considered the premiere school for this. Plus I'd have more fun digging shit up in Europe than finding arrow heads over here... lol
Decided to change fields anyway. Currently doing school for mechanical engineering.
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02-14-2011, 10:45 PM
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what are you going to go into?manufacturing, design, systems?
i am currently in 1st year @ bcit for mechanical engineering as well, going get diploma from there, then bounce over to a real university for my bachelors
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02-15-2011, 01:43 PM
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#88 | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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Originally Posted by suzuka84 why does it seem as though when education was well funded the NDP was in power? | Correct me if I am wrong, but I think tuition in the mid 2000's also went up by a significant amount. I remember during my post-secondary days I saw tuition going from under 2k per sem to over 3k per sem.
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02-15-2011, 02:14 PM
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#89 | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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^ yes it's been raising year after year since 2003 (and it's there's no stopping) when NDP was no longer in power.
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