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Originally Posted by anxiety
Lol 3.6 gpa, you would have to at least top 10% of the students, and extremely dedicated, and talented, that's graduate school material. For a 3.0 GPA, an average student who studies hard and makes good use of time can pull it off, but 3.6 gpa is for the extreme. Not saying 3.0 gpa can't get you into graduate school, but 3.6 and 3.0 are on two completely different levels.
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3.6 GPA and top 10%? 3.60 is only 79% out of a 4.33 scale, so I don't think that is the top 10 percent of students. However, I do agree with you that 3.0 and 3.6 are on completely different levels. I have a 4.00/4.33 GPA at Sauder while taking a full course load, working over 3 days a week and bussing 4 hours a week, but that's because I only study, work, and hit the gym every single day. Chilling with friends and drinking at parties are about once a week - nothing else till after exams. It really comes down to two things - how well you manage your time, and how efficiently you study and write exams. It is almost impossible to achieve a high GPA without having both unless you are taking a light course load and/or not employed.
Here are a couple threads of a bunch of SFU students complaining about their school. Albeit they're quite old, it's worth a read
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http://www.talksfu.ca/forum/discussi...o-go-to-ubc/p1
http://talksfu.ca/forum/discussion/3...-sfu-haters/p1
Moral: Apply to Sauder as a first choice because of Sauder's reputation outside of BC. I would say Bieber and Sauder are on-par in British Columbia, but outside of the country, employers really don't know much about Simon Fraser relative to UBC. UBC is where it's at. If I were you, I would apply to both Sauder and Beedie. If you don't get into one, it is fine because you have a backup.
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Originally Posted by gYU
I agree, in general Sauder is much tougher to get into.
Are Sauder business courses curved? Also, I think one important thing to mention is the flexible Co-op options at SFU versus the much more strict policies at UBC. Is it true if you miss the deadline/fail the co-op interview, then its over because you only get one chance?
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I cannot speak for the other majors, but I can share insight on the accounting co-op program at UBC as of late. Due to the recent CA/CGA/CMA merger, the required prerequisites for CASB has changed drastically such that co-op is essentially a waste of time for many students. The majority of my friends who were in the UBC co-op program dropped it because of this.