<p>I had good stats and I chose to come here over a number of other universities.</p>
<p>Why?
I liked the school
I liked the city
I liked the idea of living outside of the US
I wasn’t obsessed with needing to go to the most “Prestigious” school on my list regardless of the $40,000 tuition bill.</p>
<p>I’ve been happy here and YES there are small programs here. I know because I’m in one. This year, aside from one management core course my classes are all small. </p>
<p>McGill doesn’t baby you. But profs are available if you make the effort to go talk to them, and you can get a LOT out of your time here. i feel like I’ve really gotten a quality education. Just because CHEM110 is big (yes, I took it too) doesn’t mean every McGill course is big. </p>
<p>Everyone has a different experience and I know some who are unhappy with their choice, but overall most people I know are happy that they came here.</p>
<p>About the Chem110 course, Im in the class w/ like 300 students. The profs (there are three and they alternate after midterms ) are AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING. Ppl really need to get over this whole reputation garbage, face it in canada mcgill is top tier but then again getting into any Canadian university is pretty easy. Reputable != good. My profs in chem could easily be at another univ, whether it be less or more prominent… It would not change the fact that they are great profs.</p>
<p>Just a general question to the Americans here. Does McGill advertise itself to you guys as a Canadian Ivy? I feel like if you’re coming here to get the perks of an Ivy league (brand name, all the world’s top companies begging you to work for them, latest and greatest technology etc.) then you’d be better off going to an actual Ivy league. Heck with the American being devalued to peso-like levels, it might actually be cheaper to go to an Ivy league one day.</p>
<p>Intro chem profs rock my WORLD. And if you like them in the big classes take a world of chem because they’re much smaller classes, but same general idea. I took World of Chem technology last year and loved it. I think my family got sick of how everything we talked about eventually ended with “That reminds me of something we talked about in my chemistry class!”.</p>
<p>Total tangental note but I went out to dinner with friends at this hungarian restaurant…Cafe Roccoco on Guy and Lincoln…and an entire page of their menu was “recipes inspired by Dr Joe Schwarcz” and I asked the waitress if that was Mcgill chem 120/world of chem Dr Joe and she said yes. And I thought that was amazing (and of course ordered one of those dishes and it was good!).</p>
<p>McGill has a strong international reputation. I don’t know about a “Canadian Ivy” but I chose to go here b/c with the exchange rate at the time (1.35CAD/USD) it was a great deal and it was the best recognized school in Canada and also the best recognized Canadian school in the USA. But that had less to do with my decision than the fact that it was in Montreal, and part of college is seeing and experiencing something new. I was also accepted at UBC and ultimately I had to chose between the two, and I figured academics was roughly on par between them. Coming here solely for the prestige though is a bad idea as I know where I worked over the summer very few people had actually heard of McGill. Granted, it was west coast, but still.</p>
<p>It’s a very worthwhile point that just because it’s not too tough to get in doesn’t mean it’s not a challenging school. It’s more european in that sense - they’ll take you if you can keep up. Not like the US.</p>
<p>Hah how true it is about the exchange rate though. I want to stab myself repeatedly every time I go to the bank.</p>