Experiences with grade deflation? Seeking confirmation from current students/graduates!

tomofboston
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:44:56 +0000

I second what @chaichai8 has said. The 600 student classes that you read about are intro science courses. They too have small discussion and lab sections. It is the same at large state flagships in the US: UCLA, Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill etc.

At McGill I advanced my high school French to fluency through coursework, both for credit and Continuing Studies classes, and by actively seeking out the French side of Montreal. (Montreal is more English than many want to admit.) Having a francophone girlfriend, now my wife, helped.

As for the lack of grade inflation, there are no easy A’s at McGill. I had a friend at McGill, a fellow American student from Massachusetts, who graduated with a 3.4 GPA. He was premed and was accepted at BU, Tufts and UMass medical schools. He had a very high MCAT score.

Here is a video that an American student made about her experience at McGill: