Hey all.

I applied to 6 different universities for either Social Science/Humanities and got into 5/6 of the places I applied to.
I have no clue where to go, and welcome opinions about all the 6 places I've applied to, considering the respective programs I got into there.

Places I applied -

1. University of Toronto, St.George [Humanities. Adm Status- Accepted]
2. McMaster University [Social Science. Adm Status-Accepted]
3. Western University [Social Science. Adm Status-Not Yet]
4. University of Toronto, Mississauga [Humanities. Adm Status-Accepted]
5. York University [Criminology, Law & Society & Sociology. Adm Status - All accepted]
6. Queens University [Arts. Adm Status- Accepted]

Now, I was considering UofT, Mac and Queens until recently..but York just admitted me to their Criminology program and my parents are asking me to consider it, because of the rave reviews it has received.

Please help..because the Fall/Winter 2012 people only have about 2 and a half weeks to make a decision!

Thanks Guys

Criminology at York University, gives you the full thrill experience. Classes are usually held on Canada's most dangerous intersection Jane and Finch. You get to investigate on shootings, drug dealings, sexual assaults, shop lifters. What more can you ask?

Remember that 50% of york students are murdered before they finish their degree. There is no better way to study criminology than by becoming a victim of crime yourself.

Haha, sorry that joke never gets old, anyways for you I would choose Western!

University of Toronto because they have a reputation for being one of the best universities in the world for studying humanities.

Source: http://www.timeshighered...arts-and-humanities.html

Hey blackswan. I am at waterloo right now.. in my last semester before graduating.

An important part to remember about co-op is that not every program has the same amount of jobs. A huge proportion of jobs are for engineers. Outside of engineering and computer science almost everything is 2nd class when it comes to waterloo unfortunately. Take my major for example.. if you searched co-op jobs you would get maybe 4 or 5 jobs in total.. out of about the say 1300 posted? So take into consideration environment and business will not have jobs galore.. they will be there (much better than my program - sociology) but they it wont be anything crazy.

Also.. im very critical of the business courses at waterloo. Very poorly done in my opinion! Uoft is a little better (I was previously at uoft too, your in luck!), though not without its own flaws.

I would personally take uoft :)

Its hard to say black. Too theoretical.. but for what? Not if you want to go to a graduate school.. then its perfect! Yes they focus more on academics.. the students themselves focus on academics as well. For certain majors I think it can be detrimental.. such as business where you need to experience things outside of a text book (same for certain parts of the social sciences I think).

Yes you can transfer university to university and program to program. Not everything though.. certain programs have certain restrictions. You cannot enter after certain period or you cannot enter without certain courses in general (the latter is very common, so you need to plan ahead if you want to transfer).

I transferred from uoft because I wanted to move away and gain new experiences. Also, the coop program was tantalizing at the time (I made a similar mistake as you in assuming coop was made equal for all majors) and a good friend of mine was moving there with me. :)

Hey blackswan.. yes thats sort of the idea by not being equal. Waterloo is an engineering/computer science school. So on top of the fact that the job market does not like arts students.. your at a university that doesnt care much about its arts students. Arts at waterloo is not a tremendously good program.. thus not a lot of employers come to recruit there. Co-op is geared towards those in engineering. When go to the waterloo job posting site you wont find a lot of jobs for those in arts. Even after that a lot of the jobs arent that good. If you want really good jobs you will have to go externally and find them yourself - defeating the main purpose of coop!

Dont be scared of this theoretical stuff. ALL universities are too theoretical.. the vast majority of things you learn in the social science dont apply in real life and arent helpful regardless of what school you go to. If you want a job from the social sciences then look at the general prestige of the university.

I cant speak too much about uoft because I was only there for a year.. and was only at the UTM campus. UTSG is a lot different from UTM. I did not like the students too much.. very geeky some of them.. some very snobby.. the staff is incredibly rude at times. The learning itself is way better at uoft though.. most of my waterloo profs are just terrible. If you want to see old discussions check out the link in my signature to some of my longer posts.

Hey AgriGen, I have more stuffs to ask you. Now that I'm starting to choose my courses in UofT, i got a bit confused.

So I need at least 4 FCE to apply to environmental studies. And they have this new policy, the breadth requirements stuffs that just makes everything more confusing. Anyway, I'm planning to transfer to Waterloo in my 2nd year.

I'm just wondering, how many credits did you take in UofT? I'm just scared that I won't be able to keep up in Waterloo.

Which is one of the reasons why I combined my Economics degree with Mathematics. Although the Economics Specialist at U of T is highly mathematical in and of itself; I can't speak for other Social Sciences, though.