<p>Its come down to these 3 choices for me and I have no idea which one to pick! I want to be a pre-med, so I want a school that will enable me to get into a decent medical school. Also, as a CA resident UCSB would be a lot cheaper, but Boston and Montreal are amazing. Help me please??</p>
<p>For pre-med, McGill without a doubt. Obviously you are going to get some bias here, but I'm being as objective as possible.</p>
<p>I'd personally just stay at UCSB; it's a good enough med school, close enough to home, hot weather (if you like that; personally i despise it) and the cheapest.</p>
<p>BU is a great school, and I'm not familiar with UCSB that well, but I'd have to say McGill.
McGill is far cheaper and significantly better than BU.</p>
<p>the problem is that i didn’t (and still don’t) know anything about mcgill when i applied! i’m not familiar with the canadian system at all, so i applied to the faculty of arts since i didn’t know you had to apply to the faculty of medicine to be a pre med. i want to take humanities classes along with science classes and my pre med requirements, would this still be possible if i attend the faculty of arts?
does anyone mind giving me a bit of an an overview of how mcgill works? i’m so so clueless. Also, does the size of the school affect the quality of the education (high, impersonal classes?)?</p>
<p>From what i’ve heard, it’s pretty impersonal 
they just kinda push you along and you have to work completely for yourself and be motivated
and no, it’s very difficult to switch into anything more difficult (like science), so if you go into arts you’re stuck with taking psychology, languages, arabic studies, and other arts-y stuff.
I still say stick with ucsb.</p>
<p>If you want to do Premed, you should be fine, even if you are in arts. I know a few people who are doing it. All your premed recs can be done in like 1-1.5 years, and if you’re in arts you still have no problem taking sciences (assuming you are not taking like crazy upper level science classes (which you never will in premed)).</p>
<p>Also, you can’t be in the faculty of medicine…I mean as far as I know, u cant if ur applying to the US 4 undergrad.</p>
<p>If you do premed at McGill you won’t get a “Premed” designation, but when applying to med school they see that you’ve taken all the required classes.</p>