Still Reviewed-Decision Pending

peony95
Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:25:48 +0000

I was accepted today too, to the faculty of sciences! Though I was waitlisted to BASC, I’m pretty content since I wanted BAs more.
My decision has been decision pending for the longest time too. I was seriously surprised that I finally got admitted. I really do think that they have just way too many people to filter through, and they do pick and choose before giving decisions (which sucks for us and reflects poorly on their part).
My stats aren’t amazing or anything, but I had expected to get accepted earlier at least. I’m a US student. My GPA stands to be 3.9/4.0. I had a 90%+ in everything except AP calculus and computer science elective (85% for both of those), and I took most of the APs for the core subjects offered at my school. I scored a 31 on the ACT and had 700+ on all my SAT II’s. I think I’m average for McGill but I really started losing faith when I still didn’t have my decision 2 weeks after they had said that they’d give US students their decisions by March 27. Excluding the “first round” of acceptances (from February), I don’t think RDP is such a bad status as of today. They deny students early on, that they know they will never accept, so at least you aren’t one of those while you’re kept in the RDP pile. That status, I believe (so don’t hold me to this), has less to do with your eligibility than it has to do with McGill’s crappy service and time crunching abilities…
Then again, I guess it’s understandable since they do receive a crapton of applicants from all over the world. If they were any faster, they would have acceptance rates like University of Toronto, which actually just accepts you right off the bat if you adhere to their minimum GPA requirement and keeps doing so since they can afford to with all the space that they have. The result is that you have a varying range of students attending UoT…some are geniuses and others, not so much. This is why UoT has a relatively high drop-out rate. At least McGill’s system, though frustrating, tries it’s best to accept people they really do believe are qualified enough to pass the courses with decent if not amazing grades. Anyways, good luck to all the rest of you on your wait; I know it’s truly annoying but get it off your mind for a bit and don’t obsess too much!