Tyson Hamilton has a 96 per cent average and was president of his high school student council, but the Grade 12 student did not get admitted into business degree programs at the University of Toronto, Queen’s or McMaster.
While Hamilton received offers from seven other university programs and is excited about his choice to enrol in a dual degree program at Western University this fall, he wonders why programs would reject an A-plus student.
“If a 96 isn’t good enough, what is?” said Hamilton in an interview. “Where does it stop? Is everyone going to be needing 100 averages to get into