Apparently it's much cheaper to attend college in Canada for U.S. students versus attending many private schools in the U.S. Refer to this site for more information on college admissions in Canada:

http://www.indobase.com/study-abroad/countries/canada/admission-procedures-of-canada.html

UCSD University of California - San Diego accidentally sent an admissions acceptance email to nearly 29,000 students in error. Were you one of the students that received one of these emails?

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Here's a great article about College Admissions waitlists.

Great comment from the article: "I had one mother last year who called me every single day for two months, sometimes multiple times a day,” says an admissions officer at an Ivy League school. “I finally had to say, ‘Your son is not getting in and you may wish to seek psychiatric help for yourself.’”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-30/dirty-secrets-of-college-waitlists/