McGill has six semester program in architecture?

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The McGill Bachelor’s in architecture program indicates that its three semesters. Does that include any gen eds? Is it really a three year program or do the gen eds make up the rest of the four years?

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You might want to call or email admissions and ask them. Make sure that you clearly state what your level of education is. For example, if you are a US high school student and expect to graduate at some specific date then tell them that.

One issue is that students arriving on campus at McGill from inside Quebec have a somewhat different education system compared to students coming from elsewhere in Canada or from the US. The rest of Canada, like the US, has 12 grades from elementary school through high school. Quebec has 11 grades. Students typically then go to a junior college, known as CEGEP, for two years. Then university is typically three years (U1, U2, and U3 in McGill speak). For students coming from the US or elsewhere in Canada, there is another year before this (U0 in McGill speak). Thus I do not know whether or not the 6 semester program described on the McGill web site is for students coming from CEGEP. It also has been a while since I looked at this and my recollection might be either rusty or out of date.

We found admissions at McGill to be quite helpful when a daughter applied and was accepted quite a few years ago. They can sometimes be a bit slow to respond, or at least slower compared to admissions at some smaller schools in Canada.

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This is excellent advice. And you might want to add what coursework you will have finished by the time you graduate from HS- Calc BC? What level of physics?

If you expect to be taking actual courses in the architecture sequence without successfully completing the pre-req’s your timing will be off.

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It is NOT a Bachelor of Architecture degree. It is a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. It is also CACB accredited while the programs of note in the US are NAAB Accredited.

I’m not familiar with the potential differences between the accreditations (maybe there’s little/no difference) but it definitely warrants asking lots of questions.

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