This Is Why Canadian Universities Don T Have College Admission Scandal

Actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were charged with involvement in an illegal scandal to get their children into college. American parents concern themselves about where their children attend college more than Canadian parents would. In Canada, parents do not see a major difference between a prestigious university and a less prestigious one because they are of the same quality. In “This Is Why Canadian Universities Don’t Have College Admission Scandals,” Tyler Kingkade uses American college admission scandals, the low acceptance rate of Ivy League schools, and Canadian school admissions to demonstrate that, unlike the United States, Canadian universities accept students based on merit rather than bribery, exclusivity, and status. The

Many things are built on the idea of an inner circle, which you can see in private schools and colleges, country clubs, and VIPs in clubs and concerts. The more exclusive that the place is, the tighter those networks are, and if American universities were interested in merit and efficiency, places could get bigger and, in some ways, they have an economic incentive to expand and collect more tuition, but their social standing rests on the ability to exclude people. (Kingkade 3). Ivy league schools are prideful of their low acceptance rate because it gives them elitism. The more selective an institution is, the more people want to attend. Instead of focusing on being an exclusive institute, these schools should accept students based on merit, like Canadian

College admission should universally admit students using their transcripts and grade point averages. Canada uses this approach and includes no need for an entrance essay, letter of recommendation, as well as standardized admission test. With a 69 percent acceptance rate, The University of Toronto is one of the top twenty-five universities in the world. The size of these top universities in Canada contributes to an equal playing field in the job market following graduation (Kingkade 2). Since Canadian universities do not use the same tactics to admit students, they can have a higher acceptance rate while allowing for a fair employment search after graduation. Since exclusivity is minimized, they are allowed to see a grad not as their status but rather for their merit, therefore they can be more impartial. Canada is not doing anything unique; they are just demonstrating equality on the playing