<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I am in a dilemma, choosing McGill or Emory.</p>
<p>Can students that have graduated from McGill let me know where the students go for Grad School? Is there link with this information?</p>
<p>I am planning on an Engineering degree and then an MBA in the future.</p>
<p>Do many McGill grads get into HBS, Stanford GBS, Booth, Wharton, NU, Columbia, Yale?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the help</p>
<p>For the n-th time, I wish posters would stop worrying about grad school. Name any prestigious school you want, chances are one of my McGill classmates went there for grad school. Getting to the grad school of your choice is your job, and McGill is not an obstacle towards that goal. You can go anywhere you want from McGill, but the name is not sufficient by itself to get you there.</p>
<p>Either one works. Pick the school you like best.</p>
<p>@ Biobof</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. I know McG/Emory both send students to amazing grad schools.
But my question is, which school has an higher % of sending students to grad schools such as HYPMS, Columbia, UPenn.</p>
<p>@ bernie2012</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Just another question: do you think it will harder to get into US Grad from McGill or Emory - this is considering I do the exact same stuff (like gpa, interns, ECs).</p>
<p>Basically, do USA grad institutions favor students coming in from a USA undergrad opposed to an international school that is equally as good as the USA school? </p>
<p>Btw I am international</p>
<p>“Basically, do USA grad institutions favor students coming in from a USA undergrad opposed to an international school that is equally as good as the USA school?”</p>
<p>No, you would be an international applicant in both situations.</p>
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<p>Percentages mean nothing. Students who apply to grad school from McGill apply to a different selection of schools than Emory, thus numbers don’t exactly compare nicely if available. For one thing, McGill student will apply to other Canadian schools (University of Toronto, UBC and Waterloo in particular, but that depends on the field). Plus at the grad school level it also depends a lot on departmental affiliations and connections (I was in math with minor in CS, a lot of classmates went to MIT and Harvard, a few to Stanford, Chicago; Johns Hopkins, Berkeley and UDub for those in statistics; very few decided to go to Princeton or Yale, but at least four went to Oxford…). That’s why I keep repeating that the biggest factor in getting to the grad school of your choice is you, not the school you go to for undergrad (it can have a some influence, but between comparable institutions it’s negligible).</p>
<p>ETA: bernie2012 is right as well. Picking the school environment that is best fit for you to thrive in is important. McGill and Emory are great schools but if you’re not comfortable with the school’s mentality or setting you probably won’t do as well as you could potentially, and that would hurt your grad school chances as well.</p>
<p>McGill sends kids to the best grad schools in the world. I know McGill undergrad alumni with Harvard MBAs, Stanford PhD’s, Oxford PPEs, etc. Thing is, McGill is not the causal variable here. Rather, a lot of brilliant kids in Canada and abroad go to McGill for undergrad to save money despite being Ivy caliber students. They then go on to top 10 grad programs in their field after getting high GPAs, research experience and great test scores. If you’re not that bright or motivated you will not get into a top grad program. Everyone ends up where they should.</p>
<p>I should add that McGill offers the rigorous course selection one needs in order to demonstrate the ability to succeed in a top grad program. By contrast, a 4th tier school would not. So undergrad institution has some effect, but not much when you’re looking at top 100 schools in international rankings.</p>
<p>Hey wutang, thanks for the info :)</p>