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To be honest, I imagine all of those schools would be pretty much identical education wise. U of T may have a little more recognition outside of Canada getting into graduate schools but I doubt it actually matters. A strong student at any of those schools (including Queen's) would not have doors...

> University of Waterloo > McGill University > Concordia University > University of Toronto > University of Guelph This is a strange list, and inaccurate, as mentioned above Concordia is not really a strong school, Guelph and Waterloo are the same thing for graduate physics, they have a joint...

If its any help I also audited a graduate level Magnetism course because I didn't want the stress of all the work while taking a full course load.

I did a Major in Honours Physics and a Minor in World Religions, one of my undergrad courses was in fact "Science and Religion". I had no problem getting into Grad Schools.

In my personal opinion being a good academic is not only having research that you have done yourself but being able to mentor and collaborate with others. If what you are currently working on is near completion you may not want to share that project, but there must be many other things at the...

I would guess the cut off grades for basically any graduate school are probably higher than 65%.

Are you talking about train engineers? Otherwise, a lot of engineers do fundamental research. I am on the train on the way back from a conference on Carbon Nanotubes, and a lot of people there were in various engineering departments and fields, and they were all doing fundamental research...

Should be fine, it's somewhat of an illusion that upper year courses are more difficult than lower year courses. If you have the prerequisites then it shouldn't be a problem.

They are basically the same, a lot of profs at Canadian Universities were trained in the US, and vice versa.

Also, though you can take rankings with a grain of salt, THES ranks University of Alberta 59th in the world, while Arizona state doesn't even make the top 200.

Depends on supervisor and research, I have a friend who just transferred from University of Arizona to Queen's (Canada), and he prefers the program here for GR. U Alberta has tonnes of oil money being thrown at sciences and their physics program is really booming. I have a feeling you won't...

Completely depends on where you apply. Some schools are hard up to grad students, and will accept people with relatively low GPA's as long as they have good reference letters and experiment experience. However, lots of school may be forced to reject you if your GPA is under 3.0. My advice would...

I also laugh at the fact that you plan to get 4.0 for the rest of your courses, but can't figure out what your final GPA would be.

I don't know how you searched, but basically every university in Canada admits qualified undergraduates.

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