<p>hey..im wondering if anybody knows what the best schools in canada are for pre-med? im looking for small-medium, suburban, liberal. right now my favorite schools in america include swarthmore, case western, etc. im open to pretty much any type of school as long as it has a really good pre-med program...thanks.</p>
<p>For premed... probably McMaster is the best (life science). For med schools it's Toronto, McGill and maybe UBC due to their large network of affiliated hospitals.</p>
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<li>McGill</li>
<li>UToronto</li>
<li>UBC</li>
</ol>
<p>No offence but McGill is very easy to get in to for premed compared to McMaster...</p>
<p>for small/medium, I wouldn't recommend U of T, McGill, or UBC, though those are all fine instutions with excellent premed programs, they are very large universities. McMaster has an excellent premed while being a smaller school. The disadvantage is that at least in the US, it is nowhere near as recognized as the above three names, so if you wanted to do med school at a US university you might be better off at a bigger name University.</p>
<p>What schools are McGill and Toronto compared to in the United States in terms of prestige, academics, etc.?</p>
<p>If you're talking med school then both are very prestigous because of the fact that they are affiliated with many famous hospitals. Both Toronto and Montreal are huge cities with many hospitals, you probably won't have problems getting a job after graduation (most likely placed in to an affiliated hospital).</p>
<p>The only Canadian school that I think begins to resemble an American LAC is Bishops in rural Quebec. It is not by any means of SWAT calibre, but it's a nice small school. I agree that premed at McGill and Toronto would be good choices for job opportunities. Realize though, many Canadian med school grads head straight for the States. McGill and Toronto are the best known names in the States.</p>
<p>McGill has the interesting "Harvard of the North" reputation, however I would more accurately place it's academics on the line of NYU and similar schools :)</p>
<p>The mcGill campus is smaller than you'd think for a school of it's size, which is nice...but that still doesn't change the fact that frosh science classes in Lea**** 132 are crazy big.</p>
<p>the censor mechanism on this site is crazy.</p>
<p>"No offence but McGill is very easy to get in to for pre-med compared to McMaster..."</p>
<p>You're kidding right? Unlike McMaster, McGill has an ACTUAL Pre-med program that guarantees a spot in their med school. Students enter from high school, do one year of science and then proceed to the four-year M.D.,C.M. program.</p>
<p>Site: <a href="http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/admissions_old/medp.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/admissions_old/medp.htm</a></p>
<p>To qualify an applicant has to have graduated from CEGEP (extremely difficult curriculum) The cut off to apply is a CRC score of 34 (94-95%) most admitted have 96-97%+ averages.</p>
<p>Very easy indeed. But I hope you didn't mean just general sciences ie: Biology "pre-med", because that doesn't guarantee anything. Almost everyone I know in life sciences, health sciences, and general sciences call their programs "pre-med". Not to be too harsh but the reality is the majority of med-school hopefuls enrolled in these "pre-med" programs will not be accepted. It's like calling all liberal arts programs "pre-law". It's excellent prep, but again, nothing is guaranteed.</p>
<p>Yep, Purple Rain has it right, although a CRC of 34 doesn't always mean a 95%+ average (my CRC is 33.6 even though my overall average is only 89%...because I'm taking hard classes and am well above the average). Basically, only the top 5% of CEGEP students can even get CONSIDERED for McGill pre-med, and then admission interviews whittle that number down significantly. </p>
<p>Obviously McMaster's program is "harder" to get into from high school/CEGEP...one of the requirements is three years of university work!</p>
<p>McGill is really well known in my area (upstate new york). The two people I know that went there love it, but they didn't go for the sciences (one is international relations, the other is in the theatre program).</p>