I just got off the mcgill waitlist yesterday... help!!!

1mike12
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:29:21 +0000

well, I was applying for this fall, 2007-2008 term and I was rejected early decision at cornell, but I was accepted into Mcgill engineering. When I visited Cornell, it was like “WHOAH”, rich! I didn’t get a sense of any “snobiness” but it was definitely an awesome campus. The fact that its in Ithica means that there’s tons of nature trails and sights for a nature geek like me. The moment I saw the waterfall, that was it…I really wanted to get in.

McGill on the otherhand, was innercity, really crowded, and just felt too suffocating. I really didn’t get a feel of the city, but I’ve been to Montreal before and it wasn’t that great. I don’t remember anything special about it, it seemed to me to be just another crowded city. yes, i hate cities, but it’s my opinion.

I really don’t care about what ppl say about the rankings and that crap, but from what I gathered, Cornell has great faculty and courses, and it sounded like it was really easy to change your course and it was really flexible. McGill on the other hand, is really hard to change your course, you have to stay within the same faculty. I was excited to pick my first year classes, only to find out there was nothing TO pick. They just gave me a list and that was that. I had to still manually pick the classes, but there was no choice in it.

Cornell: name school. beautiful campus, great reputation for classes and courses, flexible course structure at least in fac of sci, high price

McGill: sorta name school, crappy city campus, BOLT DOWN RIGID classes (at least for me), dunno about how good the classes are, but 6 lectures out of my 8 classes doesn’t sound good…, low price