<p>McGill slipped from 18th to 21st place in the QS worldwide rankings this year. If you want to call that “declining” then feel free to do so. </p>
<p>McGill is very well known in the US in circles that matter, certainly more so than other Canadian universities. College Confidential is essentially an American website. McGill has 22,500 posts, Toronto has 1400 posts and Western does not even have its own thread. There are nearly 3000 American students at McGill. </p>
<p>You can directly apply to Desautels as a first year student. The only way you would have to transfer in is if you did not have the stats to get admitted as a first year student. </p>