Entrance Exams: School and Day I

entrance exams: Concerned I was not being sufficiently challenged at school, my mother insisted that I apply to a large number of Toronto best private high schools, according to NOW Magazine. A public school teacher, and a Jamaican immigrant who was part of the first generation in her family to attend university, she has always been a true believer in the power of education. I was 11 years old and soon to enter ninth grade. And so, despite the fact that we couldn't possibly afford the cost of tuition, she scraped together the money for the entrance exams and I applied to UCC. One day I came home from school, and a big envelope was sitting on the kitchen table. More importantly, my tuition would be almost entirely covered thanks to the generosity of a family who'd established a scholarship in their son name. I had aced the entrance exams and the interviews and had been accepted. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.