<p>Your post is very informative, and I would like to know: is it hard to get an american job with a canadian degree?</p>
<p>@ladywillow: Sorry, not familiar with that program.</p>
<p>@forsheep: No, it is not difficult (assuming the American economy gets back on track of course). McGill is certainly recognized and familiar to US employers. I got my first job through an initial interview in the Montr</p>
<p>I know this should probably be in the “What are my Chances?” section, but most people in there know very little about Canadian post-secondary institutions. If you could chance me for McGill and Toronto that would be appreciated.</p>
<p>General Information:</p>
<p>Year: Senior this Fall.
Age entering college: 17
Ethnicity: African-Canadian (Born in Nigeria, West Africa)
Location: Canada (I go to the top public school in Western Canada)
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank, I would probably gaurantee top 10%
SAT: Not taken yet (When answering, assume a 2100+ score, I never score lower on practice tests. Will be taking it in October)
SAT II: Math II and Chemistry (Will be taking these in November on the same day, expect a 700+ based on practice)</p>
<p>Grades</p>
<ul>
<li>Freshman Year Grades: N/A, these are not put on transcripts where I live (Alberta) because high school starts in grade 10.</li>
<li>Sophomore Year: Essentially straight As, marks ranged from high to mid 90s.</li>
<li>Junior Year: First semester I basically had straight As, with one 89% (we do percentage GPAs here) and one 87%. Second semester I fell off a bit, with all my grades in the high 80s; which is why I’m making this thread haha. </li>
<li>Senior Year: Unknown so far, I’m going to work WAY harder than I did in the second half of my junior year and shoot for straight As.</li>
</ul>
<p>Honor Level Courses: I’m in the IB Certificate program because I had a teacher in grade 9 for Humanities who decided not to give me a recommendation for Social or English IB despite having high 90s in both her classes. The IB Classes I do take are:</p>
<p>IB French A (IB 10, 20, 30)
Pre-IB Science (Pre-IB 10)
IB Biology SL (No HL offered) (IB 20, 30)
IB Physics SL (No HL Offered) (IB 20, 30)
IB Math SL (Couldn’t fit HL into my schedule because I’m taking all 3 sciences) (IB 20, 30, 31)
IB Chemistry HL (IB 20, 25, 35, 30)</p>
<p>I only started taking IB exams this May so I don’t know any of my scores out of 7 yet, I felt good when writing them though so I expect to do well.</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars</p>
<ul>
<li>Club Basketball for about 5 years (Equivalent of AAU in the USA)</li>
<li>Varsity Football (Sophomore and Junior years, will likely play as a Senior)
Community Basketball (9 years)</li>
<li>Royal Canadian Air Cadets (For 3 years, attained the rank of Flight Corporal, Cadets is a great leadership program)</li>
<li>Patti Falconer Acting/Modelling Agency (Received many scholarships to acting schools outside Alberta, that I was unable to attend because we won’t move. I also received an offer of a lead role in Like Mike 2 the movie; but was unable to participate because my parent’s were not around for me to go to Vancouver for the casting. I was 12 or 13 iirc.)</li>
<li>Debate Club, never won anything significant </li>
</ul>
<p>Awards:</p>
<ul>
<li>Honor Society (All of High School)</li>
<li>Alexander Rutherford Scholarship (National Scholarship for Academic Acheivement, received for all of high school)</li>
<li>(My school doesn’t do Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude or any of that stuff so it’s not really something I can beef up my resume with).</li>
</ul>
<p>Work/Volunteer Experience:</p>
<ul>
<li>Refereed basketball for 2 years. Paid about $13 per game.</li>
<li>Calgary Women’s Show: Packing gift bags for thousands of attendees</li>
<li>Helped paint a bridge and do a garage sale for a Women’s Shelter in Okotoks</li>
<li>Vacation Bible School Crew Leader at Church for 2 years</li>
<li>Volunteering every Sunday at church for 6 years as a youth leader, teaching younger kids</li>
<li>Tech Management Leader at Church</li>
<li>Miscellaneous other things that I could bring up if I had my resume handy haha.</li>
</ul>
<p>The last thing I want to say is that I’m well respected around the school by teachers, and I’m a good writer so the essay and teacher recommendations shouldn’t be a problem. </p>
<p>Speaking of the essay, if anyone has any suggestions as to what to write about that would be appreciated. I haven’t really experienced any hardships to be honest, other than a very aggressive series of bouts of abuse with my father during my junior year. I guess I could make a sob story and use that as an excuse for the dropoff, but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea.</p>
<p>"tomofboston
Member</p>
<p>Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 621
McGill, like virtually all publicly funded medical schools in Canada and the U.S., limits the number of out of privince/state admissions. This is from the McGill Medicine website:</p>
<p>"Distribution of seats
McGill’s Faculty of Medicine admits approximately 175 students annually into its school. Seats for Qu</p>
<p>I have a 4.1 something weighted GPA
3.9 freshman
4.1 sophomore
4.4 junior year
?? senior year</p>
<p>2000 SAT (retaking again in October)</p>
<p>I was born in quebec, lived in US most of my life.
I want to some how attend Mc.Gill. I want to be a doctor/ go to med school.
What is the better route to take?</p>
<p>1) Apply to Mc.Gill as an international student? (or do i count as a quebec resident since I was born their?)
2) Apply to a local CEGEP, become a quebec resident for sure… then apply to Mc.Gill? </p>
<p>Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… I wish that I could travel both… :/</p>
<p>Hi, i just went into grade 10, and I know I have a some time to plan for my future and that there’s no rush but I really want to get high chances for getting into McGill Medical School. I’ve been in love with studying how the human body works, surgeries, dissections, body language, and ive been unprofessionally (outside of school curriculum) studying all of this for a very long time, and it has been my dream since I was 6 to save lives of many people. My parents are both very smart, they’ve been studying Architecture and Civil Engineering at the top university in Russia. They are very smart people, without them I wouldn’t have been speaking reading & writing in Russian, Arabic, and English, and also learn French and German, plus have the chance to be living in Canada. I currently live in British Colombia, Canada and I would be more than grateful if you inform me about the requirements for me to get into McGill Medical School, the marks I need to get while im in high school, and what I need to do to get to McGill. Thank you very much for reading this, I await your reply.</p>
<p>@Nosike: McGill accepts based only on numbers, unless you’re thinking about applying for scholarships. I probably can’t make a prediction without your other numbers. I had a similar GPA and got into McGill, but it really depends on the faculty you’re applying into. </p>
<p>@Marosha: Considering that you’re not a Quebec resident, it’ll be considerably hard for you to get into McGill Medical School, as they only accept 9 out of province Canadians. From what I understand, the medical school is a graduate program, which means you’d have to take 4 years of university before applying. Assuming you want to get into the McGill undergraduate biological sciences program, you’d want at least a A/A- GPA, as that major is the hardest to get into. I’d recommend you to do some research before doing anything else, as the requirements are the McGill faculty of sciences are listed on their [url=<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/admissions/]website[/url”>http://www.mcgill.ca/medicine/admissions/]website[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Why are you worrying about medical school in grade 10? But crunchi is right; it will be near impossible.</p>
<p>I applied to faculty of science and the school of management. If i don’t get accepted into the school of science, but i do get in the school of management, will i ever be able to switch into science?</p>
<p>Yes, you could do an internal transfer towards the end of first year but it would not be automatic. Management and life sciences are the two most selective programs at McGill. The lowest score admitted to management last year was 91% and the lowest accepted to life sciences was 91.5%. If you are Canadian, you know that those are pretty high marks for minimums.</p>
<p>I was wondering whether doing accounting from mcgill is good or not… There are like umpteen threads that say mcgill’s faculty of management is not very good but still, its got the reputation… And say if i choose to major in accounting and minor in finance (since mcgill doesnt offer this combination as a double major), will it mean that my oppurtunities in banking and finance related jobs will be shut? I’m confused whether to pursue accounting or finance.</p>
<p>Most of the posters on those threads, wutangfinancial and econgrad in particular, are dissatisfied that McGill, or any Canadian business school, is not in fact in the USA. They feel that being in Canada, and in Quebec in particular, will not adequately prepare them for a high powered job on Wall Street. </p>
<p>Being in Canada is seen as a disadvantage for their career aspirations.</p>
<h2>mcgillhopeful, life science and management and also now the interfaculty Ba and Bsc are the most selective programs now. But they are still very doable. I am sure you will get in.</h2>
<p>killerrocker, accounting does not prepare you for finance jobs really. If you want to go into banking and finance then I’d suggest math or physics or engineering if you are really good with numbers and quants. In fact, almost all good firms don’t require that you have any finance background.</p>
<p>Otherwise, do econ and finance. It is a rigorous program, lots of math so you learn much more deeply. </p>
<p>Mcgill is not really known for its management to be honest. Very few people go on into elite firms on Wall street. You can see the Bcomm career placement for more details. </p>
<p>Don’t be discouraged however. If you really want it, then do really well in school, get involved, get to know the profs personally, get some nice internships and you will definitely have a chance at the most elite financial institutions. I just don’t like to give people false promises and have them disillusioned when they come here.</p>
<p>“Don’t be discouraged however. If you really want it, then do really well in school, get involved, get to know the profs personally, get some nice internships and you will definitely have a chance at the most elite financial institutions. I just dont like to give people false promises and have them disillusioned when they come here.”</p>
<p>In other words, it is not so much the school but the individual. McGill offers you enough to be a success at what want to be. Like any school, if you party away four years or take the easy route through classes, you likely won’t achieve your goals. Neither McGill nor any school will help the unambitious student. </p>
<p>Also, most students at McGill are Canadian and don’t necessarily want to move to Nerw York or anywhere in the US.</p>
<p>Econgrad wait… so what you are saying is that instead of choosing finance along with accounting, i should opt for accounting + math? Wow first time i’m hearing of such a suggestion. But yeah it does make sense. However, won’t math majors have a lot of physics related math? Will minors in math be sufficient along with accounting? And won’t finance major include all the finance math too?? so then accounting + math will be pretty similar to accounting + finance major, right:/ ?</p>
<p>tomofboston, mcgill doesnt offer double majors in accounting and finance. Does this mean that i can’t pursue this double major? And what about accounting and math? Im dead set on accounting as my first choice.</p>
<p>It depends on what you want to do. From your previous post, you said you wanted to go into finance and banking. Thus I don’t think accounting would be a good fit. Accounting is good if you want to be accountants. But not financial analysts.</p>
<p>Finance is becoming very mathematical. You need to build math models to price futures, options, swaps, interest rates, yield curve and etc. So math would be the #1 choice. Finance is really secondary, prestigious firms want to recruit people with excellent math skills and even no finance background because they can teach them about finance on the job.</p>
<p>Math majors don’t have any physics related math. You are only doing undergraduate study, you won’t be seeing advanced topology and the sort that is only used in physics. You will do algebra, calculus, analysis, differential equations, matrices. All of these are used universally. In fact, the math and comp sci departments sends more graduates to bulge bracket I-banks than the management faculty.</p>
<p>At McGill, a minor in math is okay but it is not as rigorous. If you don’t want to do math, then finance would be okay or honours econ and finance.</p>
<p>Accounting will prepare you for a different career. Then it could potentially be hard to change midway. So I do not suggest accounting at all. You will take a few accounting classes though if you choose to be in management. It is part of the Management Core.</p>
<p>I’m visiting in a month!
Yay, I’m so excited.</p>
<p>When is the best time to apply to Mcgill?</p>
<p>How quickly does McGill respond to an application?</p>
<p>Will students who do not meet the 29 minimum be automatically declined?</p>
<p>Does Mcgill look at weighted GPA for students who take AP courses?</p>
<p>@iwtgim
1-As soon as the on line application is available.
2-For Americans, decisions are released starting in late January if you file is complete.
3-Not automatically declined but chances are greatly reduced, or you may be offered admission to your second choice program e.g. denied in Science, admitted to Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
4-Unweighted GPA is used.</p>
<p>@tomofboston</p>
<p>thank you, just a few more questions;</p>
<p>Does Mcgill look acknowledge at the intensity of the courses shown in a transcript when considering an application?</p>
<p>Can multiple applications be sent for different faculties?</p>
<p>Should one wait to achieve a 29 before submitting an application?</p>
<p>Is it advisable to apply to multiple faculties, in hope to increase your chance of getting in?</p>