<p>I think acceptance rates can be deceiving. The percentage of people accepted is directly proportionate to the number that apply. So unless two schools have the exact same number of applicants, comparing acceptance rates is baseless. And it is true, McGill is the toughest school to get into in Canada as a whole. Others have certain programs that are tough but the rest don't ask for much. The "college culture" is pretty much non-existent here. When I first told people at my school (in Toronto) that I was going to McGill, they asked me "What's that?/Where is it?". In Toronto, graduating classes usually get split in two, half goes to UofT while the other goes to York. It's pretty sad...One girl asked me "What's the Ivy League?"</p>
<p>HELLO everyone =P sorry about the CAPS last time I was super excited...</p>
<p>To answer a few questions/opinions;
1. YEA I did really get into McGill
2. and YES those are my scores... thanks for tellin me my scores suck btw =P <em>although it is really true!!!</em>
3. Im sooooo not a liar
4. i may have exaggerated the 3 weeks thing, felt like three weeks though! was prob a week or so! hehehe
5. also it is rIdiculous not rEdiculous =D jks!
6. umm i have been just checking out this site lookin at scores etc. (casually) but only joined wen i had summin to say :D
7. im NOT a TROLL?!?! what??? lol
8. sorry that i dont meet all of your standards... BUT i still got in! must have been a miracle called; my IB scores, recommendations AND my GPA!!
9. Peanutbutter u are soo not gullible!!! wat u read is TRUE!! lol
10. And thanks "salpert" for not trashing my scores :D hahaha
11. <strong><em>to ask ur Q's peanutbutter; i have an american passport but i am also french, i also said that in my app. I got accepted for business (Dasautels) :) wat r u applying for?? (ur sure to get in..i think)</em></strong>
13. HOPE IS STILL THERE FOR EVERYONE ELSE!!! LOOK AT MY SCORES, THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES!!!!</p>
<p>thanks... i look forward to reading ur replies/apologies/w.e =P</p>
<p>what department did u get accepted to?
i still wouldn't take your scores as "hope", but i dont think people with 30 ACTs should be worrying.
OK, i apologize for "bashing", and congrats, if you really got in :P</p>
<p>Ehhh, ill stick with being a cynic till i see you join the facebook McGill network and McGill class of 2012 on facebook and post your name or something.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED PENDING FINAL RESULTS!</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 uw, 4.4 w
ACT: 34</p>
<p>I'm pretty stoked, this is my first acceptance, and I love McGill.
peanutbutter: I was in the same situation...they received my mid-years tuesday and just made my decision today, so don't worry! </p>
<p>By the way, does anyone have an ominous empty "AP Exam Results" section in their status page? That makes me nervous...
Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Hi i go to a public school in edsion, nj.
ACT- 26
GPA- 3.5uw 4.1w
applied to arts and sicence</p>
<p>my midterms have yet to recieved by the school, but i am almost certain that they are en route.</p>
<p>my application is still pending further review and i am EXTREMELY NERVOUS about my admission, seeing how my ACT score is not all that great... (compared to the rest of you)</p>
<p>does anyone have any words of wisdom? i am REALLY stressed out. :(
HELP!</p>
<p>so I've been reading this for a while now..and i faxed my midterms over a week ago..just as everyone here seems to have done..
but for some reason it doesn't even show that minerva has received them..
its still blank in that slot?..
its been exactly a week..and them not even acknowledging that they received it seems peculiar</p>
<p>and my scores are probably what is making me so nervous</p>
<p>and 490 if u really got in then ur giving me alot of hope</p>
<p>my sats
1790
sats two
history:660
math: 560
gpa: 3.63
but this year my midterms give me a 4.4</p>
<p>so basically i suck...lol</p>
<p>i dunno...if i got in..it'd be complete luck</p>
<p>wave24, i think everyone has that AP thing if they self-reported their ap scores. so i called the office and they told me that we needed to send in the scores we have by march 15th (documentation deadline) and that we should also send them an email with our minerva number on it stating that further results will come for the may 2008 APs.</p>
<p>hey WAVE24 when did minerva give recognition of recieving your mid-year grades?</p>
<p>hey yea i got into Dasautels for business :D which i am soo happy about hehehe <em>sanamemami</em> i think you def. have a gooed chance if you compare yourself to me! but do you take IB or summin?? cus thats what i think really made me get in (+my gpa 3.95) and also being french.. :) but still i was shocked because of my low (in comparison to every1 else) scores on the ACT and SAT.. but im not good at those type of tests anyways! :) gd luck ;)</p>
<p>haha ok 490lv...sorry for joining the train of doubt. and congrats on your acceptance. i applied to arts to be an english major. im a little worried though because another kid at my school applied to the same program and has already been accepted, but my mid-terms went out late because of grade changes, so im hoping that's why</p>
<p>legrumpybug, im in the same boat...seriously doubting acceptance. i do have a 30 act, but only about a 3.3. and gpa is overall of more weight in admission than standardized testing if that makes you feel better. i mean, i did have an insane upward trend during 11th and 12th grades, but i dont know if that will get me too far.</p>
<p>im on vacation for the weekend too, and i realized i forgot my ID number...im going crazy because i want to check my status so badly but no one's home and they dont email them or anything so i cant :(</p>
<p>IMPORTANT QUESTION to every who has been accepted: haha i really want to know this since i cant check my status until i get home. did anyone first receive an email saying a decision had been made on their application and THEN you logged on to find your acceptance? that's what a kid at my school said.</p>
<p>i think its so weird how they havn't even said that they received my midterm grades....</p>
<p>i dont know</p>
<p>ya i had aps instead of ib
i have 7 including the ones im taking now
but i only passed the ap exams..i dont think thats going to be a big point for me</p>
<p>hey again!
<em>sanamemami</em> Yea it was taking 4 ever for them to recieve my midterms so i faxed them in! i think BIGTWIX did that or sum1 cus i read about it here! and like 3-5 hrs after they recieved them they accepted me!! i was like :O So yea try faxing them! :) </p>
<p><em>peanutbutter</em> Oh and yea i was constantly checking so i foundout from the website first, but yea they send u an email but it only says to go to the website.. not so helpful! lol oh and yea like i applied after 2 other ppl in my school and i got in 1st sooo idk how it works honestly?!?!? u just got 2 hope u get in lol</p>
<p>i did fax my grades....a week ago.
and still they havn't received them</p>
<p>hmm i have no clue sorry.... i guess you are just going to have to wait till they say something! OR maybe try and call them...?</p>
<p>490lv i think it's completely logical that you got in. you never know how many ppl are applying to one specific school/major within mcgill and maybe this year they need more ppl to do that. and of course being french helps =P</p>
<p>BIGTWIX stop being so sore. you're probably just mad cuz you worked your ass off and got into mcgill and 490lv didnt work as hard and still got in. and of course she's gonna have caps she obviously JUST got in and is really excited. and it makes sense to surf this site and keep reading posts and not actually have an account, i KNOW FOR A FACT sooo many ppl do that.</p>
<p>ok you guys are probably wondering why im defending 490lv so much haha but we go to the same international school and she DID get in with those stats, it's posted in our high school office and everything. </p>
<p>anyway im waiting on my reply from mcgill which should come soon, my app got completely on minerva on friday. wish me luck!</p>
<p>flyguy, when you apply, I'm pretty sure you don't apply to a major/intended major. At least not in arts.</p>
<p>And I'm not sore. 490lv's SATs just made getting in seem a little unbelieveable because they were all below the cutoff. Being French could've been a factor though, especially if 490lv applied to arts and choose the en francais program or whatever.
Did you 490?</p>
<p>anyway flyguy, if he truly got in, more power to him. I'm not jealous if he didnt have to do much, or whatnot. My stats are nothin to brag about. They are okay. But my 1st and 2nd years of HS i got a 3.15(which sucks), but then i decided to kick school's ass 11th-12th grade year. Was it worth the work? Yes, i got into McGill.
Was it worth it if i didnt get into McGill? For sure it was. Im smarter than I ever was, and now I have an intellectual passion that I had't previously had.</p>
<p>bigtwix, mcgill doesn't have cutoffs. everything you find on their site/handbook/whatever always says either the average entering scores or the middle 50% of the entering scores. and both of these could mean that accept</p>
<p>actually, the site has a minimum acceptable SAT scores, as well as a listing of average SATs and middle 50% (25-75%)</p>