<p>You should ask yourself if the university has a good science program. And McGill does, pre-med is just the term used to demonstrate the req. classes to apply into med school (i.e. 1year of G. Chem, Organic. Chem, Physics, Biology and typically 1y social science, sometimes Calc). From my understanding, McGill’s science faculty is the best faculty in the school, thus you should get a quality education.</p>
<p>Consequently, if your intention is to go to a top notch medical school, McGill ranks very high. It is #2 in Canada, behind UofT. Off the top of my head, McGill is a tier one North American Med School; However, it is quite likely at the bottom of the tier, due to Yale, Stanford etc.</p>
<p>In terms of undergraduate education, Boston College may rank slightly higher than McGill. What people forget though, is if you are intending on pursuing education beyond the undergraduate, the school does not matter… only the GPA. The med school application review committee could not care less if you went to Harvard or a no name university. Heck, the single most disadvantageous pursuit may be your major, if you take say biology your chances of an interview are much lower than if you took a economics or English major. The reasoning? Med schools want a diversified body of students, about 90% of applicants come from the science pool and of those roughly 60% have biology majors. Taking a not to so popular major allows your application to stand out among the rest. i.e. two students have the same marks, same e.c, mcat but one is a biology major while the other took english… chances are the english major gets the interview and not the biology major.</p>