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I took Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. My class had lots of Asians (and other minorities), and to a large degree they beat the pants off mo
by apenwarr 16y ago
I took Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. My class had lots of Asians (and other minorities), and to a large degree they beat the pants off most of us white people for grades.
But that was the point of going there, I thought. I had scholarship offers from universities where they were going to make it easy on me. The high immigrant population at Waterloo shifted the bell curve so that all the courses had to be harder. Why would I spend money and four years of my life on something that wasn't as challenging as possible?
So thanks, hard-working immigrants, for raising the bar and therefore the quality of my education :) I hope the best Canadian universities continue to be smart enough to not try to influence it the other way.
By the way, I lived in London Ontario for a while, and the University of Western Ontario seems to be exactly as characterized in the article; mind boggling. But hey, I'm all for diversity. If that's what the majority of white people want to pay for, then sell it to them.