How does the admission process for top Canadian universities work?

DadTwoGirls
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 03:15:07 +0000

In our experience the admissions process was pretty easy at Canadian schools – generally easier than for US schools.

One daughter applied to McGill, and only needed to send in SAT scores, high school transcript and references, and a relatively simple application form. I think that she self-reported AP results. Both daughters applied to some smaller universities for which SAT scores were optional, but we sent them in anyway. I don’t think that either daughter did an essay for any of the universities in Canada that they applied to, and I don’t think that either were asked about ECs. Some other universities (I think that UBC is an example) may ask about ECs and may have essays.

You don’t do anything to convert your grades. Universities in Canada get plenty of applications from the US and know how to interpret US grades and US transcripts.

We also found the admissions staff at nearly all universities to be very helpful. The speed with which they replied to emails did vary quite a bit.