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Interesting that they pay a co-op fee in first year.

I only had to pay co-op fees for the semesters before I actually went on a co-op term; and the first co-op term wasn't until after second year.

Although it wasn't a huge part of the overall cost, $500+ is still a significant amount of money for a first year student.

I went to Dalhousie University

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You actually have to pay all 8 terms of school, even if you only take 6 co-op terms. Also, the co-op fee increases every year as well.

This isn't true for waterloo. (Bo was probably in 4 stream.) We only pay for the terms before we actually go onto co-op.

EDIT: As he points out below, it's different for different programs (even within engineering some pay 2 terms before their first term and some pay 1 term before. However the fees continue onwards for every term that the student is not in co-op).

I am in stream 8 engineering. I was charged in both my 1A & 1B term. Edit: I believe it's different for non-engineering co-op students.

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