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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Tutors are absolutely a factor - the amount of money some parents have spent getting kids through high school courses with good grades is significant.
But I think almost all Canadian undergrad admissions are basically just marks based. So resume padding and connections don't really matter for that.
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They do matter for admission to grad/professional schools. The schools are very interested in whether or not you had some kind of extracurriculars, both in high school and during university. It's a bit of a joke, because even at the university level, in Canada, athletics don't really require all that much talent. Participation in many, even NCAA sports, is largely a function of how many resources your parents put into them.