<p>Brief stats.
Citizenship:I’m neither American nor Canadian.
Sex: Female
School: I’m a freshman in the U.S. top 30 ish state school.
(To be specific, The College of William and Mary)</p>
<p>GPA: High school: 4.34 weighted
College: 3.17 on just the first semester of freshman year…yeah i know it sucks!
(I took 4 classes and I got A-,B+,B,B-)</p>
<p>SAT II: Math level 1C: 690
Korean with listening: 790
Toefl: 103</p>
<p>I know that my College GPA and my SAT score suck! Do I have a chance at McGill or UNC-Chapel Hill? Please, any feedback will be greatly appreciated. McGill’s deadline being on Janurary 15th, I’m really desperate. </p>
<p>Well, I actually have a good ec in high school. Just on top of my head…
I was in various activities and did a summer school at Georgetown.
In various activities, it shows that I have leaderships and outgoing.
I received decent amount of recognitions in math and art fields.
I was a varsity in tennis for one year.
I was in a literary&art magazine and was a web master/designer.
I was a team leader at drawing illustration of one children book, and is published now and is also available online.
etc. </p>
<p>I’m not too worried about the ec’s, but many people have said that McGill doesn’t really care about ec’s, and they only see the scores and facts.
Moreover, the McGill online application doesn’t even have a category that I can tell my ec’s. So I’m very worried that my ec’s don’t even considered by McGill admission.</p>
<p>I’m Canadian (at a US university) but I can tell you ECs do not matter at all at McGill. Your SATs are a little on the low end but your HS GPA is fine. Not sure how McGill will judge your college GPA, from what I hear it’s fairly competitive to get into McGill as a transfer, especially an international transfer.</p>
<p>Unless the specific school you’re applying to within the University requires a recommendation, LORs are optional. To be honest, I’m not sure how much weight they place on LORs as most CDN universities admissions are heavily stats-based. Here’s a link to their admissions application instructions, there’s a section on supporting documentation you can take a look at: </p>
<p>Will SAT score of 2000 get me into McGill? I’ve signed up for January SAT in hope of getting a better score although I haven’t studied for the test at all since last year…</p>
<p>sat scores taken during college, two years after most people take them, are usually not looked at in the same light, if they are looked at at all</p>
<p>and a 2000 is probably slightly under the average accepted sat score but within range</p>
<p>there will be lots of people applying from lots of good colleges, it won’t mitigate a 3.17…work on raising your gpa up the next couple of semesters and youll have a much better shot</p>
<p>Best of luck to you, starling. As DBJ said, there’s (generally) no one single thing that makes an applicant a shoo-in for admission, it’s the whole package.</p>
<p>You didn’t say what nationality/ethnic group you belong to, just that you’re not American or Canadian, so depending on your background, that could bode well for McGill. McGill is very much into the diversity thing. Anyway, best of luck, let us know how things work out for you.</p>
