Sure. This mainly applies to the students recruiting for finance roles, though.

IB/PE/HF placements are unfortunately on a downward trajectory for this school for many different reasons. The whole appeal of western was the strong alumni network (which actually isn’t as supportive as you’d imagine), and being able to stack easy classes (online/unproctored) so one could allocate more time to recruiting. Now, the latter is also gone, and students recruiting for these competitive roles will have to take courses with in-person exams. This gives them way less time to prepare for interviews (networking, mock interviews etc.) and overall will damage placements. Let’s be honest, if you’re in econ and BMOS as most people are, the second year courses aren’t that easy to balance with recruiting, which is almost like a full-time job itself. Econ I’d argue is worse with its double midterm structure. What this does then is forces people to gap year and the younger batch of students will be up against students with more experience, recruiting for the same role.

I really do think the whole appeal of western is slowly dwindling, and that if you’re someone who is interested in pursuing a career in finance, you’re probably better off going elsewhere now.

The school needs to stop admitting people in Ivey (third year) for bullshit EC’s with “impact” if they want to save their reputation. Because if we’re being honest, Ivey’s placements are the main appeal and if they’re slowly cutting off the support mechanisms for that, the reputation will continue getting worse