<< Hey J@cko, if you want to get into a unviersity like Stanford, then you must be loaded. The average tuition is like $80,000 a year, or so I heard a while back. This might have changed though.
Btw, can anyone tell me if U.S education standards are above or below that of Canadian education standards?
For example: an 'A' in U.S is like a 'B' in Canada.
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It is not that expensive. Tuition is around 25K a year. Add on another 10K for room, board, books, travel, health insurance, etc. So total cost should be less than 35K a year, especially since if you can't afford it the school will give you some aid. It is a lot of money compared to a state school where tuition might be around 5K, so 15K total cost at the state school. Drop most of the room and board stuff if you live at home and it becomes even harder to justify the more expensive school. This is all in US dollars which is what I am familiar with. Maybe the 80K cost you are quoting is in Canadian dollars.
About the US standards thing: The variance in grading from one school to another varies greatly even when you consider just US schools. This makes it even harder to make a statement like you are making comparing US schools to Canadian schools. You have good and bad schools in both countries. Since there are more schools in the US, some 2-3K, there are likely many more good schools in the US ( in numbers not percentages) if you assume similar distribution in quality.
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