After Trump's win, more U.S. students consider college in Canada

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

Posted: Dec 30, 2016 11:11 AM CT

For some college-bound students distressed by the U.S. election of Donald Trump, Canada is calling.

Colleges from Quebec to British Columbia say applications and website traffic from the United States have been surging since Trump's victory Nov. 8. Although many Canadian schools had also ramped up recruiting in the U.S. recently, some say dismay over the presidential election has fuelled a spike in interest beyond their expectations.

Lara Godoff, a 17-year-old from Napa, Calif., said she scrapped any notion of staying in the U.S. the day after the election. Among other concerns, Godoff, a Democrat, said she fears the Republic president-elect's administration will ease enforcement of federal rules against sexual assault, making campuses less safe for women.

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Applications from U.S. students to the University of Toronto have jumped 70 per cent compared with this time last year, while several other Canadian schools have seen increases of 20 per cent or more.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canada-college-us-trump-1.3916657?cmp=rss

[bdamomma]

1. this is horrible

besides students leaving what about the professors who teach in these colleges. The ramifications of this man being in office will have dire consequences for everyone. Absolutely horrible, it will definitely have a domino effect.

One good thing Canada tuition costs are a lot lower than the US.

[Johnathan146]

3. I dont think many colleges have trouble meeting enrollment

Applications may be up, but most will probably still go to a US college

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

2. Best chance to stay in Canada

Choose a major in a field that is sought after in Canada, do well in school, and stay out of trouble.

[olddad56]

6. my son is an undergrad student at Cal, he is considering Canada for grad school

with the thought of remaining.

[inanna]

7. I, for one, would welcome him.

As would many other Canucks, I'm sure.

[bdamomma]

11. thanks my daughter

is in Halifax right now started in September. She loves it. Trying to get use to the cold.

[teezy]

22. Agreed!

Right on, sista!

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

8. One of my kids

went to the University of British Columbia for grad school. Several friends stayed, but she married another American and came home to the U.S. The cost of living is ridiculous in in Vancouver.

[George II]

4. If I were 20 years younger I'd give it serious consideration.

[KT2000]

5. Good idea -

they have excellent schools, less tuition costs, and values that would do something so astounding as to make healthcare available to all.
If I was that age again I would go to a Canadian college and stay there.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

9. Even if you go to school there

it's still very hard to stay legally.

[Generator]

10. Actually going to school there is the best way

to maybe get citizenship. Looked into this for my teens-they may go to school in Canada. They give you a work visa if you are a student. And then of course you would have some connections. They want you to be there at least 3 years before you even apply. Older people like me-they don't want.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

12. Best chance is to major in something that Canada needs

The ones who stayed in my daughter's group - STEM majors and/or anyone who married a Canadian. LOL Of course, 3 or 4 students are not a representative sampling,

[jzodda]

13. I would beg them to stay

Dont run away. Stay and fight! This is our country too and we need to battle together.

[YOHABLO]

14. That's right run in the face of adversity. You think any of them vote?

[hunter]

15. Depending on how bad one expects things to get... running is a reasonable thing to do.

That's how all my ancestors got to the U.S.A.. They were escaping shit in Europe. My last immigrant ancestor was a mail-order bride to Salt Lake City. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran off with a monogamous guy.

Do you think guys like Albert Einstein could have stayed in Germany and overcome the Nazis? Do you think the U.S.A. was correct when we turned away thousands of Jewish refugees?

The day I think the U.S.A. is irrevocably going to hell, damn straight I'll run. That's what humans do.

I'll also note that if my wife and I had moved to Canada when we were young we'd be affluent people with a good retirement.

Instead we stayed in the U.S.A. and were beaten down by medical debt, suffered periods when we were uninsurable after running COBRAs to the bitter end, and were beaten down again sending our children to college.

There's nothing "exceptional" about the U.S.A.. It's the top banana of the American banana republics, a perpetually "developing" nation. There's an affluent class, mostly white, who are insulated from that, and also quick to blame the victims of oppression, mostly for racist reasons, but also with bullshit about "poor choices" or "tough love."

If anyone needs "tough love" it's the fuckwads at the top of this pyramid scheme. People at the bottom of the pyramid need to reject our current economic system where the wealthy are getting wealthier and everyone else is losing ground. Unfortunately, that's what many Trump voters thought they were doing. I think maybe 40% of U.S. Americans are fascists celebrating their own ignorance.

Okay, yeah, I'm a fighter, but I'm getting tired of this bullshit.

[orangecrush]

16. This is what is in store

"This past Saturday, 200 white nationalists gathered two blocks away from President-elect Donald Trump’s future home, exulting in a victory that has catapulted them out of the shadows. This Monday, an organization called Turning Point USA launched a website called the Professor Watchlist, which provides the full names, locations, offenses—and sometimes photographs—of liberal academics it has singled out for ignominy. In any other year in recent memory on this continent, these would be two unrelated events. But in the United States in late 2016, as the president-elect’s surrogates cite Japanese internment as a “precedent” for what may come, any “watch list” of any sort is worrying. One that targets outspoken intellectuals with views that oppose a mercurial future president who spent the weekend tweeting petulantly at the cast of a Broadway play? Abjectly terrifying."

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/education/2016/11/professor_watchlist_is_a_grotesque_catalog_of_left_leaning_academics.html

I'd be getting ready to leave if I could.

[Sunlei]

18. read kellyanne will lead the attack nazis who will harass constantly any who aren't RW, Republican

[orangecrush]

19. Hopefully

They are also going to overreach and infuriate to the point where they lose congress in 2 years.

[inanna]

21. I truly appreciate your post.

Thanks. And yeah, the examples you cited are damn good ones.

[Sunlei]

17. Students should shop overseas for college, USA way to expensive!

several of my clients help their high school seniors take prerequisites at local community college for about a year, they try for really good grades at local level. Then they apply for scholarships at major usa colleges or they go overseas for a couple years. Iceland, England, Germany, Mexico, Canada and one's in Israel a volunteer working with new immigrants and provided with college classes in return.

Our country is way to expensive for college, I think it's because of the student loan Corp profits and Corps wanting grant money profits. People have to be very wealthy or burden themselves with student loan debt. USA education is now a "for profit" business.

USA has to many scammer schools like the Trump University ripping off peoples education money and stealing our Veterans one time pell grant money.

[MichMan]

20. What about Mexico ?

I would think attending college in Mexico would be a fantastic option for students to consider as well