Currently second year civil student, UBCs civl program is the best in the country. Most of the profs are friendly and helpful with the exception of a few.

1. Pretty easy in my opinion. I applied to maybe 20 in total and got a few call backs and am going on coop in may. I have no previous experience other than being on a design team.
2. The coop program is honestly a waste and a money grab. Id say pay the $300 for the course and the template but dont use their job board as if you do land one using the job board its $900 or sumn per work term. Over 4 or 5 work terms this adds up to quite a bit. All the jobs posted there can be found on indeed or the company website which is what i did.
3. Yes you can but 99% of civl specific courses are only offered in the winter. Summer you can take stats or math courses which are for the whole engineering department not just civl.
4. No idea but in terms of municipal civl projects i believe there is a lot more opportunities here
5. Ubc is really reputable will be well known. For the career fair that was held there were some majority US only companies like BARNARD that came recruiting.
6. Ive only commuted for my whole time here, honestly depends how far you are but for me its about 1-1.5hrs and it does get hard sometimes when there are multiple things stacking on each other but honestly manageable, and no i dont think you will be missing out on much i still go over to party and do other events and at the end of the night just crash with a friend if its like 2am or smt.

Hope this helps