McGill, how "good" is it compared to U.S. colleges?

katiebee
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:24:11 +0000

McGill is known to like international students over Canadian (non-Quebec) ones, since you pay far more than us in tuition. It’s pretty much accepted information that it’s easiest for Quebec students to get in, then Internationals, than non-Ontario Canadians, then Ontario residents, and this is evidenced in the release of admission decisions-decisions are made in that order, which ensures that Quebec students are extended offers first, then Int’ls get many of the spots that are left, then non-Ontarians, and then the remaining offers are extended to Ontario residents. The provinces have a slight rivalry, lol…

Also, to the person asking about the merits of McGill and U of T, those two schools, along with UBC and Queen’s, are generally regarded as the top 4 schools in Canada-probably like your Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford or something along those lines if you want to look at it that way. And no self-respecting person actually calls McGill the “Harvard of the North”, lol, though as I said earlier, I suppose that reputationally it’s somewhat similar.