<p>i got rejected from NYU and if my ED 2 doesnt go as planned, Mcgill would be my first choice. however, due to a little bit of a low GPA i was wondering what my chances looked like.</p>
<p>intended major: english
white female, pennsylvania, USA
highly-ranked public school
GPA: 3.249...had depression freshman/sophomore year, it really affected my grades. ridiculous upward trend though junior year and this one as well. my essay should explain this. however mcgill doesnt ask for essays, so my application doesnt explain this. however, i was told it would be best NOT to mention it or claim extenuating circumstances.
ACT: 30 composite, 34 writing, 33 reading, 26 math, 25 science
SAT IIs: 700 literature, 590 US history
all honors course taken aside from math, 3 APs (basically 4 because AP english is 2 years worth of classes), 1 college level social science course
8th place in the region on the national french exam
county honors field hockey player
senior county allstar team member</p>
<p>great recommendations
lots of ECs: field hockey goalie, chorus/select chorus, bandfront, 2 community clubs, cancer fundraiser participant and committee member, outdoor adventure club,
work exp: babysit almost every week, interned at a business consultant office last summer. also was an assistant to a high-end party designer.
summer: week-long mission trip in appalaichia, my internship, young scholars program at clarkson university, pennsylvania free enterprise week </p>
<p>please be honest...im a litte nervous due to my grades</p>
<p>McGill says it values junior and senior grades the most, so good move not mentioning your extentuating circumstance.</p>
<p>If your junior and senior year grades are above 3.7, then I'd say you have a great shot. If this is the case, then I would only be concerned about your sub 600 SAT II score. I'm not sure what the min. is but it's not that much above it (or it might be below it). But I dont think they care about the subject tests as much as they care about GPA and SAT I scores.</p>
<p>your ACT is median, I don't know what your grade 10, 11, and 12 marks look like though. If NYU rejected you ED, I can't help but assume that your marks aren't that stellar to begin with. </p>
<p>To be brutally honest, I wouldn't peg you as the strongest candidate for admission, but it's refreshing to see someone like you on the boards (as opposed to the 4.0 freaks who are worried whether they'll get in or not). You have something legitimately to worry about. You may not celebrate it, but it's a nice change of pace around here (that sounds terrible, so please take it as endearing). </p>
<p>That being said, the median GPA entering McGill for an American is 3.7; if your CGPA from your 10th, 11th, and 12th grades is around there, you should be fine. If not...maybe an ED2 option at a less selective university is a safer bet for you. </p>
<p>yeah i was actually a top field hockey goalie in my area...school records and stuff. i just emailed the coaches today about playing actually, so well see what they say. i dont know how the divisions work in canada and how mcgill ranks, but i think their field hockey team lost most if not all of their games. </p>
<p>my 11th and 12th grade average will be around a 3.7, and i heard that mcgill mainly looks at those years as opposed to 9th and 10th, so will that help at all?</p>
<p>also, although this probably wasnt the main reason that i got rejected, parts of my NYU application were messed up...i misworded a sentance in my essay, accidentally copied my writing sample twice into the box, and mistyped "varsity." im pretty sure that they thought i was retarded....but who knows</p>
<p>^^ I think of it like this: McGill > NYU (in terms of selectivity). If ED generally accepts more/is more forgiving on transcript blemishes than not getting into NYU can give you a fairly good idea as to how you stand in a more competitive pool.</p>
<p>do you mean mcgill is more selective than nyu or or mcgill has a greater rate of acceptance than nyu? im 99 percent sure you mean the first one, but just want to be clear.</p>
<p>also i feel like what makes nyu so selective is the whole new york city thing and thats part of the reason why they get so many applicants. i mean, i dont know about the rest of the US and i know mcgill is still very selective, but i dont feel like it holds the same rate of popularity as nyu does, at least in my area.</p>
<p>McGill acceptances are generally of students who are academically higher calibur than NYU ones. However, i would argue that NYU is more competetive in admissions because they are traditional when it comes to ECs, recs, and essays, which most applicants to Mcgill send none (since most people probably do not apply to NYU)</p>
<p>As for your GPA it does seem pretty low. Good luck though</p>