Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
I'm not sure if University of BC full time students have to pay additional use fees for certain facilities.
Very few university faculties at the major Canadian universities require any mandatory physical education. Except probably for kinesiology, etc. Mandatory courses are tied directly to your major. I actually have never seen an elective offering even for lst year.

Even lst year (for humanities, applied/hard sciences at University of B.C. University of Toronto, Western University, University of Waterloo...all major long standing, large universities with long history of academic research programs, etc. don't require it. Myself, siblings, friends went to these universities.. )

What is Division III schools mean in the U.S.?

I actually used to envy students who got to eat...junk..they had enough money. Those days, McDonald's wasn't as cheap as it is now.

I think the recreation fee was paid by all students and went into a pot of money for athletic facilities, subsidizing club sports, and student government (which then parted it out to other student clubs). Don't remember.

The Division I, II and III designations are set by the collegiate athletic association. Basically, I like to think of division I as sports programs (mainly football and/or basketball) with schools attached to them, almost always large state universities. Div III schools are much less serious about athletics. No athletic scholarships. More laid-back. They tend to be smaller universities.

It's been very weird going from schools where nobody really cares ("There's a football game? Uh, we have a football team?!") to a school where people take it very seriously.