Where graduates of a school do their post-secondary studies can be an important factor in choosing a private school. Do you want your child to go to a Canadian university, an Ivy League school in the US, or somewhere else? Whatever your inclinations, check out a school’s university placement record and the support they offer for university applications and decisions.
Students accepted into post-secondary studies upon graduation
100%
Percentage of students who attend post-secondary institutions outside of Canada
20%
Students who attended a Ivy+ school
Number of students in the past 5 years that that attended one of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, University of Chicago, Oxford or Cambridge (UK)
This chart shows the main subject areas Toronto Prep School graduates have pursued in post-secondary studies. If post-secondary studies are a major goal, this is an important factor to consider in choosing a school for your child.
Toronto Prep School Graduates’ Post-Secondary Studies:
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Aggregate of All Schools’ Post-Secondary Studies:
24% - Liberal Arts and Sciences 25% - Engineering and Applied Sciences 23% - Business/Commerce 6% - Fine and Performing Arts 14% - Applied Health Sciences 2% - Applied Professional Studies (Post-grad certificate / diploma) 7% - Other
Qualitative insights
These insights are based on conversations with parents, alumni, and school leadership. Handpicked and curated by our editor, they offer a close look at how the school is experienced and perceived by those who know it best.
Individualized student support is provided.
Feedback from students and parents indicates that Toronto Prep School offers personalized attention tailored to each student’s learning style and needs, ranging from those seeking high academic achievement to those requiring confidence-building and remedial support.
Their mission in general is to prepare their students for what comes next in their life — whether that be university, whether that be entrepreneurship, whether that be college, whether that be taking a year off. It’s about making sure the individual student is emotionally, socially, and academically prepared for what comes next.
We have such a diverse student population, because of our approach to admissions. We have our straight-A students that come to us from the public system because there are 30 kids in their class. They want to get into competitive university programs. They need very high grades, and they need to know their stuff, and they need access to the teacher to get extra help. We have that group of kids, and we have a group of kids that come in who have no self confidence or self-esteem, because if they struggle with something, instead of a teacher sitting down and showing them how it works, they would get categorized as being in a different class of learner. They get sent to remedial, and that plays havoc with your personality. So we help both of these kinds of students.
I’m hands-on. I’m a visual learner. I’m a big ‘do-er’. Reading and writing are not my strengths. So as a kid growing up in the conventional school system, I always felt like I was dumb, because my learning style wasn’t supported. I knew I wanted to go to university, and have always been interested in science. But to get there, I needed to have just the focus. I needed the attention, I needed to be supported as a learner, as someone who didn’t have the skills, who didn’t have the drive to sit there and study. And I got that support at TPS.
The educational environment is confidence-building.
Testimonials from the school community highlight how Toronto Prep School fosters a classroom atmosphere that mimics college settings, equipping students with the self-assurance and skills necessary for a seamless transition to higher education.
What prepares students for university is having the confidence to actually go in and do it. When it comes to, ‘Oh, what's the university going to be like? What's going to prepare them for university?’ it's almost like they need to be in it in order to understand it. But what you guys do really well is you give them the confidence to go and say, ‘Well, I don't know what this is going to be like, but what I do know is that I can figure it out.’
Our classrooms and our desks, the kids call it very ‘college-like’. For example, we had special desks made up where two kids can sit with their books. There’s only 16 in the class, so there’s only eight desks in the class. Everybody who registers gets a MacBook Pro. There’s lockers. A lot of students tell me they feel like they’re already in college, which makes a really nice smooth transition to university.
When I send my child to Toronto Prep, I don't have to worry about them academically. Because as parents, you can be hyper-focused on your child's academic success, academic standing, and then ultimately getting into university. But the great thing is when they go to Toronto Prep, you don't have to worry about that. I would say that that's really, really important, particularly in this day and age with awareness of mental health and stuff like that.
There is comprehensive university application guidance.
Parents and administrators appreciate the cradle-to-grave support provided during the university application process, ensuring students focus on academics while expertly managing the intricate steps of applying to post-secondary institutions.
It's really important for parents to understand the level of support the children have in Grade 12 when it comes to the whole cradle-to-grave university application process. I was blown away. I mean, it's great because the parents could sit back and go, ‘Ah, we just let Toronto Prep and the guidance team take care of it.’ It is incredible. I mean, you guys do it better.
[When it’s time to apply to university,] we want the Grade 12s focusing on their academic work. We're going to hold their hand through the process, but we need to make sure that we do everything perfectly just so to make sure it gets uploaded properly. Everything's online now, right? You click one wrong button and you don't apply properly.
Insights from alumni and school staff underline that graduates from Toronto Prep School not only gain admission to top universities but also thrive in higher education and beyond, emphasizing the longevity and effectiveness of the skills learned at TPS.
When people come to me and say, ‘Well, do the kids get into university?’ I say, I'll give you one better. Our kids graduate university and do very well. Because to us, that's the key. That's the success. People are like, ‘Oh, I didn't realize your graduation rate is 99% first selection university.’ Getting into school, yes, it's hard. I understand it's hard, but one in three kids will drop out the first year and be asked to leave. That's not the case for the TPS graduates. Not at all. They go in full gangbusters ahead and they rock. And so I tell them, if you're going to any school, please ask them what the success rate is of their kids at university, not just who gets in. And that's really important to us.
After leaving Toronto Prep School, your child knows how to attack [university-level] problems. It doesn't matter if there's a 1,000 in the class or 2 in the class. The skills were learned in a small class to make sure that they were embedded in your child and that they learned them so that they could use them in the real world out there. These are skills that are transferable and that could be used not only at university, but hopefully in a job.
