1st year course selection

<p>music majors are strange animals, kids ;)</p>

<p>how do u get in touch with the profs?</p>

<p>depends on which profs. i just looked online, lol got their email and fired away!</p>

<p>McGill's website or google? When do you think my package will come? I'm so excited!</p>

<p>In bcomm there are 2 core courses on the website.. one is 90credit and one is 120 credit.. whts the difference and how do i kno which one is mine ?
my major is accounting</p>

<p>mcgill's website. for example, i was looking up chem profs. so i went to the department of chemistry and under undergrad studies, they have like the list of all the courses and its instructors.</p>

<p>If you enter as a U1 student, ie, already have 30 credits from transfer, IB, AP, or whatnot, then you follow the 90 credit stream. If you enter as a U0, a normal freshman, then you follow the 120 credit stream :)</p>

<p>thanks harpgirl..i think since ive done gce alevels i should get those extra 30 credits</p>

<p>would you recommend getting your transfer credits? I was told by some of my teachers that it's safer not to take them, especially ones you might need because first of all it's possible that there are some gaps or discrepancies between what you've learned in high school and what you're supposed to learn in first year. Also, it's better to be a normal freshman student and enjoy it before you bombard yourself with work. In a way that's sort of true. Plus, it's easy grades and your GPA will be a lot higher. Apparently it's usually downhill from first year, so might as well start high? Would you recommend taking it easy on yourself the first year or forging ahead?</p>

<p>I guess it depends on what program your doing and what your motives are</p>

<p>If your like me who is doing the IB program (which teaches your far more than you get credit for) and wants to graduate as soon as possible...then definately take credits </p>

<p>I would recommened you take the credits u get for electives...caz that way you will have a lighter course load, thus more free time or more time to focus on ur requried courses. that way u wont miss out on the things u missed. </p>

<p>I think forging ahead is a pretty good idea...first yr isnt too hard...make it easy on ur self for the final yrs (hardest yrs)</p>

<p>p.s. I dont think taking more courses at mcgill will improve your GPA, they grade extremely hard there.</p>

<p>well ive taken GCE A levels, and its course is PRETTY tough.. and its my 13th grade of high school, if i was in american system i wudve finished 1st year of uni, but alevel requires 13 years of schooling, so i think i quite deserve the extra credits..</p>

<p>but bittersweet i must say u got a point there, and ill think about what u said..</p>

<p>but if they grade really hard or whatever and you don't actually get a really high mark, isn't that an indication that you're missing something or not doing something right? I'm in IB too, and there is a lot of stuff that regular programs don't cover, but we do have to learn all of that in the fixed amount of time we have, so I personally don't feel that I've learned an entire year's worth of material, especially because exams are in May and not June so we're already missing a whole month. I'm going into Management and I guess it doesn't really matter to me how early I graduate. Although I don't think I would particularly like to graduate a year before or after everyone else. When do they tell you what credits you can get anyway? And do we have to declare our credits, because some universities force you to and won't let you retake the course even if you don't feel comfortable with the material. I just really have no clue how in-depth the university courses are and how much I might miss out on if I don't take it. However, when I went during march break I sat in on a chem or orgo course and they were getting a lecture on straight chain alkanes, which we learned at the very beginning of the year, so....I don't know.</p>

<p>If u r doing management there are not gonna be many courses which are required which u will get credit for (econ is the only one u might get)</p>

<p>The courses you will get credit for will be ur ELECTIVES. you exactly miss out on anything because these courses most of the time will have to nothing to do with your major. The purpose of these electives is to broaden ur hozions and make u a more well rounded person (the IB does a damn good job of that). Further more the first year courses will be really basic, the IB teaches you far more than you will learn in ur freshman year (if ur getting anything over 36-37 points on the IB, u will be more than ready) </p>

<p>The faculty of management requires u to take math HL and u dont get credit for math methods anyway (math is porbably the subject you should be concerned about) Math higher teaches you second year university math, nothing to worry about, u dont need to take calculus, geometry, linear algreba)</p>

<p>Will they give you credits for courses you took at SL? I took economics at SL, but they did teach you a lot. I know we learned a heck of a lot in math, cause I was reading some of my friend's material from year 2 finance stuff at McGill and he was doing stats material that we covered yet again in first semester. Although, that's probably the course I'm not going to declare my credit because I don't know if I'll forget everything by then. I looked on the required course thingies for management and you have to take like math for management or something, so will my IB math even make a difference? And if you declare the credits for your electives, won't you just take other electives in its place? It's not like you're going to take second year chem when you're going into management, right?</p>

<p>firstly..you dont get credit for SL courses..but u can probably get out of them by taking placement exams </p>

<p>I dont c y ur so worried...just take all the credits u get. If you think you havent understood some parts of a course, just go to a TA or professor who will explain it to you. </p>

<p>personally I am in ur same position.. I am doing sciences, which unlike management is much more knowledge based and I am taking all the credits I can get. I dont see any point of doing taking introductary classes with more 500 ppl in my class when you already know the material (your not gonna learn much anyway, well i wont for sure). First year college classes are a breeze if u you done the IB (In my IB bio and chem classes we are doing second year university stuff)
when u get an credit..it means they give your 3 credits hours (you dont have to do an another course, u get 3 free credits without doing a course) In other words you dont have to do replacement course for the elective credit you got</p>

<p>Western ontario offered to give me second yr. standing...I will most likey go there because I can do 3 years worth of courses in 4 years. This is kind of stupid but it doesl give more time to do things I love most e.g party, do sports, enjoy life, etc. some of the things I missed out by doing the IB. </p>

<p>I think that SL courses should be given credit, they are almost as hard as AP courses, which get you credit.</p>

<p>furthermore i wanna add again that if u have done the IB...there is no need to worry caz u will be more than prepared </p>

<p>people in the U.S (non-AP) and canada (non-CEGEP) dont do anything near the stuff we do in the IB. U0 is made particularly for these people</p>

<p>don't most universities offer you second year standing if you're from IB? I'm pretty sure something like that is mentioned for McGill as well. You're right, we did miss out on a lot of "living" in high school because of IB and I agree that SL courses should be given credit too. IB is a hell of a lot of work. I guess you're right...</p>

<p>"don't most universities offer you second year standing if you're from IB?"</p>

<p>I wish. None of the universites in the USA (cornell, wisconsin, illinois, UVA) offered me anything except for a few credits for bio and chem. </p>

<p>In canada...In Mcgill they say you can directly go into second yr if u do the IB..but from what I can make out...you still have to take the required courses you dont get credit for..so basically only get 12 credits max. </p>

<p>queens, toranto, waterloo all offered me credits only for my HL subjects
western ontario gave me second yr standing and I dont have to do any of the first year required courses for my program (biochem/medical sciences). So in other words I dont have to take phyiscs (which is useless anyway) or calculus..which I have already done in Math methods.</p>

<p>anyone knows anything about why credits u get for GCE advance levels?</p>

<p>hey i was wondering if any of the current mcgill students would like to post what their 1st year schedule was? i'm not sure which electives i want to take :)</p>

<p>Certainment:</p>

<p>First semester:
CORE CLASSES:</p>

<p>Chemistry 110--MWF at 12:30pm
Chem lab-Tue at 9:00am
Physics 101--Tue, Thur at 11:30am
Physics lab-Mon at 2:00pm
Calculus 140--MW at 4:30pm
Calc tutorial--Fri at 2:30pm</p>

<p>Electives:
Music Theory 110--MW at 8:30am (word to the wise--8:30 electives, bad)
Music theory tutorial--WF at 9:30am
Decouvrons Montreal en francais--Tue, Thurs at 2:30pm</p>

<p>So there ya have it. The actual courses were
Chem 110
Physics 101
Calc 140
Muth 110
Frsl 216</p>

<p>This semester
Chem 120 MWF at 12:30pm
Chem lab Tue at 9:00am
Phys 102 Tue Thurs at 11:30am
Phys lab Fri at 2:00pm
Calc 141 MW at 4:30pm
Calc tutorial M at 2:30</p>

<p>Elective:
Financial accounting Tue, Thurs at 2:30</p>

<p>So my classes were
Chem 120
Phys 102
Calc 141
Mgcr 211</p>

<p>This was with the freshman science program. Note that I got credit for Biology 111 and Bio 112 from doing AP bio last year :)</p>