do you think I'll make it into mcgill?

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<p>hello everybody!</p>

<p>I'm an Italian high school student, and I really wanna go to mcgill university, montreal, for college to major in linguistics. I took the SAT I 3 weeks ago, and my score is not amazing by any means. 670 in both reading and writing, 530 in math (I know, that's really low). so that would be 1200/1600 or 1870/2400. I'm not going to retake it cause I don't think I'd do any better, especially in math (I just suck at it, and it's also my school's fault... with only 2 hours of math a week, what could I expect?). Languages are my strength, and I'm gonna take the French and Spanish subject tests in October. I fluently speak English and French, and I'm learning Spanish. my grades in high school have always been very good, all A's. since our school system is really different, we don't calculate the GPA, but I guess it would be higher than 3.5 (the arithmetic average of my grades for this last year is 9.1/10).
Two years ago I spent a school year as an international student in the US, and had A's in all my classes. I also got 4 subject awards while there, participated in Key Club and SEAC, I was in stage crew for the school's plays, and I was a member of the track team.</p>

<p>here in italy I volounteer for AFS, an association for studying abroad while in high school, I attend extra Spanish classes in the afternoon, tutor my friends in english and biology; I also went to piano classes for 8 years, up until two years ago.</p>

<p>so do you guys think I have a chance of getting into mcgill?
thanks for helping! :)</p>

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<p>help anybody? it’s really important please!!</p>

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<p>All Canadian universities are run by the government (public). As such, their admissions criteria are mainly numbers-driven.</p>

<p>Your GPA is in great shape for McGill! However, I would strongly recommend retaking the SAT. The SAT is not a test of knowledge but of strategy and mental endurance. If you are serious about earning admission to McGill, consider taking some time out of your summer to SAT practice. I promise it’ll be worth it!</p>

<p>Good luck (from a native Canadian currently living in the states) :)</p>