<p>Can you do ED at McGill???</p>
<p>Nope------------</p>
<p>Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>Can someone with good ECs, 3.5UW/3.9W, 2100 SATs, Top 20%, and a Montreal-born, black female have a chance?</p>
<p>I’m seriously in panic.</p>
<p>If you attend HS in the US, you will be evaluated against all US HS applicants, no matter your citizenship. If you are a Canadian citizen, I think you’ll get Canadian tuition rate. They admit by straight forward cut offs for SATs and GPAs, and it varies by program; practically no essays or credit for ECs. I never heard there is any regard for minority status in admissions either. Your scores should be fine, but it’s a good idea to apply to at least 2 programs to give yourself a better chance, esp. if something becomes highly popular next year. You might also want to look into Queen’s University and U of Toronto.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t panic yet (you’re a sophomore, right? plenty of time left) Neither your ECs, nor your race matter to McGill admissions. If you’re really intent on getting into the university, definitely boost your class rank up to top 10%. You’ll also have to take the SAT IIs required by the faculty you’ll be applying to. Your SAT scores are great for McGill. Good luck!</p>
<p>If you’re interested in the humanities, check out Concordia. It has a great creative writing dept. and students there can cross-register for classes with McGill.</p>
<p>Just a vague warning… a friend of mine (born in Montreal, but going to a US high school) was in the top 5% of our class, had 1360 SAT, and a 3.8-4.0GPA(UW) and was still rejected. They told her that her SATs hadn’t met the cut off. Not to be discouraging or anything… it’s just hard to say where the cut off will be each year (supposedly, it keeps getting more and more competative - yikes!) But it’s definitely worth a shot - best of luck!</p>
<p>one of my friends had 1500+ SAT and was rejected from faculty of arts. i think mcgill is becoming less predictable and more like the US college admissions</p>
<p>Yeah… I want to major in International Development Studies. All these replies scare me…</p>
<p>wow, rejected with a 1500+? Thats crazy. I was admitted to faculty of science with a 1400.</p>
<p>ya i didn’t even know what to say when he told me that.</p>
<p>crazychai is so crrrrraazzzzyyy</p>
<p>/bored</p>
<p>McGill is only so unpredictable because it gives top priority to provincial applicants…people from Quebec have a much easier time getting in–imagine UC Berkeley with even more exaggerated admissions.</p>
<p>For example, most people from Quebec probably need only an 80% average to get into McGill (and it’s not difficult to get 80% if you’re a fairly intelligent person) and no SATs or ECs…but as we’ve seen, U.S. applicants sometimes have a very tough time getting in.</p>
<p>Do remember that 80% in Canada is an A… it is harder to get an 80% in Canada than in the States</p>
<p>I’m from Quebec, so I think I know the difficulty in getting 80s. And I’m telling you, that for the slightly above-average student who puts in a bit of effort, an 80% is not hard to come by.</p>
<p>yea, and that kinda screws everything up because even for the rest of Canada you need a 90+ average to get in AND they don’t care about EC’s or IB or anything. But still, according to Maclean’s McGill has the highest entering average, so you can expect some of the brightest people there. An 80 in Canada may be an A, but it’s not that hard to get. 90’s though are less common and much more difficult to achieve.</p>
<p>Agreed…a 90% is probably more like a 4.0 than an 80%, yet far fewer Canadian students can get 90% than U.S. students get 4.0s.</p>
<p>yea, so I don’t think we’ll feel the grade deflation as much as some others. Most universities say that you’ll probably see your average drop about 10%. That’s kind of scary, seeing as lots of people need to maintain a certain average to keep their scholarships or get into grad school or whatever, and that it just keep dropping from there. Although third and fourth year aren’t that bad, I hear, because they’ve stopped trying to weed people out.</p>
<p>I heard they only look at junior year too…</p>
<p>Recheck your facts, poison.ivy–
McGill starts looking (I think) from sophomore year till the second semester of senior year. But it’s definitely possible that junior year is given more consideration than both sophomore and senior year. I’m pretty sure that this is what most schools do…</p>