<p>McGill should require SATs from Canadian students. They accept way too many dumb Canadians who can't handle the work, yet all the international students seem to do fine. </p>
<p>I'm now in support of the SATs after seeing what happens when you don't require them. That's all.</p>
<p>Ouch...burn on Canadians...</p>
<p>And McGill isn't the ONLY Canadian university out there, contrary to what seems to be a popular belief.</p>
<p>That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Not to mention that not all international students require the SATs (and I don't think they're all doing quite as well as described), or the fact that you don't need to add SATs to raise the requirements. You know, McGill has to take 2/3 of its students from Quebec, and 2/9 out of the ROC...</p>
<p>The correlation between SATs and someone's ability to handle university work being.... ??</p>
<p>I don't think that Canada should have SAT-type testing, but possibly more province-wide testing. In Alberta, they have provincial exams worth 50% of your final grade in any senior level core academic course. It helps reduce grade inflation, because if you have a really high grade you don't deserve, you won't do well on the exam and universities will see that (which also leads to teachers being subject to review, and a better system all around, etc). I think this is the problem that you might be observing with a lot of canadian students coming from places like Ontario, where there is no such system and students (and schools like McGill) may think they are better qualified than they really are.</p>
<p>I second that, Blobof. There are plenty of extremely well qualified Canadians who apply to McGill and can't get in because of the Quebec student quota. Also, because admission to Canadian schools is FAR more competitive for international applicants than it is for domestic applicants, it isn't surprising that there should be more 'dumb' Canadians who drop out.</p>