Does McGill look at Weighted GPA?

theloneranger
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:59:25 +0000

Actually pretty much every top university uses the applicant’s weighted GPA now.

Stanford was pretty much the last holdout–they recalculated the GPA using letter grades and compared with course difficulty. Now they simply use the applicant’s weighted GPA. They switched because “all of their peer institutions were already using the weighted GPA.”

I’m not sure what McGill uses for US applicants. I don’t believe the concept really has too much relevance in Canada as I think a lot of universities base admission decisions on provincial exam results.