Why do Americans value their universities so much more than Canadians? via nparts
I attended graduate school in the college town of college towns: Boston, Mass. Home to 35 post-secondary institutions, you couldn’t hit a Dunkin’ Donuts without running into a gaggle of sweaty college kids.
On one particular flight, from Boston to Toronto, I remember this becoming evident when I was sat next to two Harvard freshmen, both in school sweatpants, sweatshirts, headbands and backpacks, all in signature crimson. They spent the hour-long flight discussing a visit to Martha’s Vineyard with their parents for the holidays and possibly hitting Cape Cod in the summer, and proudly competed over who had skipped more classes that semester.
Not that university isn’t a rite of passage for Canadians, or that we’re less educated in any way, but the status attained simply by attending one institution over another has never carried the weight that it does in the U.S.
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