pretty random

What sort of GPAs are required to get into those schools? One of this columnist's points is that a lot of Canadian schools have really high entry grades (like 89% for plain Arts) because it costs them too much to admit more students, since the government gives them less and less with each extra student. Additional funding (like at BU or UPenn) might allow them to a) pay for the poor kids and b) let far more people in. I don't know how pie-in-the-sky his ideas are though.