Hi,
I just wanted to know if it was possible/ how difficult it would be to transfer from a Canadian university (such as Mcgill or University of Toronto) to an American university (such as Vanderbilt, Notre Dame or Georgetown).
You would need top grades and EC’s. You would also likely have to be full pay.
Note that Canadian universities are notoriously hard graders and u Toronto is the most infamous for that practice.
agree but not all grad schools are aware of that and so some u of t students are at a disadvantage when applying to them because of lower gpa in their undergrad
Also consider what year you would be transferring into. Jr? Soph? And really, why? McGill and UT are top universities and Canadians go to these schools for cheap. Gift horse, mouth etc. Are your US target schools even as good for your major? ND? VB?
I don’t know anyone who transferred. I do know several people who did undergraduate in Canada and then did either a Master’s or PhD or both in the US. The people that I know who did this were all very strong students who had done very well, in most cases at either McGill or Toronto, and then went on to top US schools (including Stanford and Princeton – two different students).
If you can get a Bachelor’s from McGill or Toronto or UBC, or in CS at Waterloo, then I don’t see a whole lot of reason to transfer to “Vanderbilt, Notre Dame or Georgetown”. The top Canadian schools are quite well known and highly ranked.
@moneyp so would it be considerably hard for a Canadian undergrad go to the US for grad?
It’s not “considerably” hard to get into a top US grad school from the schools that @DadTwoGirls lists. It’s no harder than if you went to Berkeley/Michigan for undergrad. Those schools are well known entities to schools such as HYPSM.
Using law school admissions as an example, when you take the LSAT for law school admissions, you, and the schools you apply to, get your score from 120-180. On the report is also the average LSAT score for all the students in your school who took the LSAT along with their average GPA. The schools get this report for all the colleges and universities. https://www.lsac.org/lsacresources/data/top-240-feeder-schools/2015-2016-accessible They can see that the average LSAT for Notre Dame, for example is 162 and the GPA for LSAT-takers at the school is 3.57. They can also see that the average LSAT for McGill is 163 and the GPA is 3.43. So, the average McGill student with a similar LSAT score has a lower GPA. Admissions committees can make their own adjustments as necessary.