Largest number of applicants since double cohort
I couldn’t write about this yesterday since my web host was experiencing technical difficulties. But, it’s worth noting that The Globe and Mail is reporting:
Approximately 83,000 high-school students submitted applications by last week’s deadline, an increase of some 4,000 from 2007.
That number is second only to 2003 when two classes graduated from Ontario high schools because of the elimination of Grade 13.
Considering that enrollment is projected to fall in the Maritime universities and B.C. universities are about to drop provincial exam requirements in hopes of bolstering application numbers, it wouldn’t be a bad time to look east and west, too, for your university options.
Or, perhaps this has never been a better time to explore the world of educational options available to you:
- a degree earned online through a Canadian open university
- earning the equivalent of your first year or two of studies through credit-granting examinations such as Advanced Placement (AP) or CLEP
- a community college program
- trade school or an apprenticeship
- entering the work/volunteer force first, then deciding later what specific education and/or training you need
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