<p>Recently I, international student, get admitted by McGill, and just dont know whether it is as decent, academically, as those like Princeton, CMU, or Cal-tech.
Is there anyone who can tell me something about McGill?</p>
<p>i dont think its as good as princeton or caltech. But i would think it would give some competition to CMU atleast</p>
<p>mcgill is an excellent university. i have a number of friends there and they always speak very well of the school.</p>
<p>It is more similar to the better US state universities. It would probably fall toward the low end of the Top 10 state schools in the US.</p>
<p>I see McGill as very different from the other schools you mentioned along many axes.</p>
<p>1) More single-focussed. You will probably do far fewer courses outside your major at McGill than you would at Princeton or Stanford. Cal Tech and CMU are not so different from McGill on this attribute…If your intended major at McGill is Humanities or Social Sci, this may not be a big difference. If your intended major is something more easily professionalized (hard sciences, performing or creative arts, business) you may feel this more.</p>
<p>2) Size. Just compare the numbers – huge difference. On the one hand, the smaller schools will feel more personal and involved in your life; you’ll never be just a number or an administrative headache at these schools, but you may feel that way at McGill. On the other hand, with size comes energy, excitement, diversity - more of a big city feel. You might get bored seeing the same small bunch of undergrads in your major at CMU for 4 years, plus socially CMU and Caltech are a bit…i dunno…nerdy, I guess. What do you prefer?</p>
<p>3) Student commitment to academics. You probably won’t run into people at Princeton, Stanford, CMU or Caltech who are more-or-less academic weaklings, but there definitely are people like that at McGill. They mostly don’t end up graduating in 4 (or 3, for Quebecers) years with honors, though. At McGill, you can find lots of highly accomplished motivated students working hard and competing successfully for internships, grades, faculty attention, etc. You can also find people for whom it’s pretty much an easy-to-get-into commuter school. It’s a mix. Are you comfortable with that, or do you need to be surrounded by hand-picked prestige whores – [not necessarily my final view of all Princeton/Stanford students, just being a bit provocative on behalf of a fine democratic institution, even if it does reside in a country still loyal to the Queen].</p>
<p>4) Big city, tons of young people, music, clubs, parties… McGill has got this one hands down. </p>
<p>5) Cost. List price McGill is still a bit cheaper than the others, but the actual cost to you depends on what merit or f.a. awards you might get. Of course, if you’re a Canadian citizen, McGill is cheap cheap cheap.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot memake!
It seems to be a wonderful school!</p>
<p>I haven’t posted much on these boards, but I must interject:</p>
<p>McGill is by far considered to be a “world-class” school. As a sophomore at Yale, I must say that the general consensus is that McGill is JUST a good as a school as is Yale. This seems to be the opinion of not only the students, but the faculty as well. After all, McGill isn’t known as the “Harvard of Canada” for nothing!</p>
<p>Actually it is known as the Yale of Canada. Toronto is the Harvard of Canada.</p>
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<p>No, McGill is known as the Harvard of Canada. Read this article by the McGill tribune:</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to McGill: We get along over plentiful pints - features](<a href=“http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2003/09/03/Features/Welcome.To.Mcgill.We.Get.Along.Over.Plentiful.Pints-456573.shtml]Welcome”>http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2003/09/03/Features/Welcome.To.Mcgill.We.Get.Along.Over.Plentiful.Pints-456573.shtml)</p>
<p>what do you think the mcgill tribune would say, of course it’s gonna call itself the harvard of canada, it’s a Mcgill newspaper. Frankly, Queen’s has more of the feel to an Ivy league school, but if you ask most canadians they would probably say Toronto.</p>
<p>Montreal has the highest % of beautiful women of any city I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot of cities.</p>
<p>Tourguide, your powers of observation do you credit. I think Budapest, Moscow, Minsk, Paris, Prague and Warsaw beat Montreal, but only by the smallest of margins. But I am not sure how this helps the OP!</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn’t classify McGill in the same league as Harvard or Oxbridge (unless you want to group them as “the best” in their respective countries.) It’s definitely above average, don’t get me wrong, but getting into McGill isn’t very competitive compared to others (~40% rate of acceptance for undergrads versus 10%). I think that the sheer prestige of Harvard’s law and medical schools doesn’t compare to that of McGill’s.</p>
<p>sorry, I don’t think McGill is as good as Yale…</p>
<p>Mcgill is not good, but can’t compete on an international scale. ask international students from canada; it’s not in the same tier as the very top us schools.</p>
<p>Wow, Alexandre, you really like those former Iron-Curtain gals. I’ve been all over the former non-Communist Europe, and never saw anything like Montreal–not even in Sweden or Denmark. Spain might be the only one close. Hard to believe Paris can compete with Montreal. I’ve been to several parts of France, and wasn’t impressed (maybe all the hotties gravitate to Paris?). What’s really funny is the folks in Montreal say the gals in Quebec City are the best.</p>
<p>I hear that it is really hard and intense work… which I don’t think is the case with all top tier schools. So yep it’s an excellent education but be prepared.</p>
<p>Mcgill is the best university of canada, The studies in mcgill is much better than harvard or princeton or yale as they r very very costly</p>
<p>Montreal is one of the greatest cities in north america. Take that into consideration as well.</p>
<p>McGill = Any big public school in the United States.</p>