My confusing journey to picking a grad school

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@dfrecore Well it's not like they want too, it's because you know the labs aren't extremely large, and they don't want to force people to doing what they don't want to do. Some people hate math, add math, phys, chem etc forcing them to do it is kinda mean. Everyone has to do math, Eng A and Eng B. They will do integrated science which has very little math. And some students really can't even cope with modern studies subjects like IT, Span, French etc. Business courses are somewhat easier and no one really flunks out. You are given 7-8 subject areas to study and passing 5 with at least grade III is considered being successful. with this method it is very rare to see anyone get under 4 passes. idk, but some people are more inclined to doing certain things. I LOVED phys and chem in HS, my dad punished me once by taking away some chem books he thought I was reading too much, yet some people would rather gouge out their eyeballs that look at a chem book.

@jsd Well there is the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE), it is limited now because of the situation with the oil prices, but in my time it was free to go to school for an undergrad and the government would pay 50% for graduate studies, so it was pretty normal in the non-sciences to do masters in your field of a good number of years, though you need upper second class honors to enter into any grad program.