<p>Does McGill look at Weighted GPA?</p>
<p>I don't know. I don't even think the concept of weighted GPA exists in Canada.</p>
<p>Over 2/3 of McGill's applicants are applying from a CEGEP, which is a Quebecois thing and is essentially a junior-college/prep school like institution which consists of what in the US and the rest of Canada would be the 12th grade and freshman year of college. These students are competing for admission against the rest of the applicants out of high school, and they don't have a traditional GPA. They receive a score which is usually something like 30.9. I have no clue what that means but that is the median CEGEP score for entering students.</p>
<p>Quebec students only compete against each other (see McGill's pool of applicants approach, besides, they go directly to U1, so it really wouldn't make sense to compare them with rest of Canada and international applicants for admissions). And you can read about the Cote R on [url=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_score%5DWikipedia%5B/url">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_score]Wikipedia[/url</a>].</p>
<p>But yeah, I don't think McGill cares about weighted GPA. Back in my days they didn't care about the cote R either. They just looked at your straight average.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it make sense for them to look at me in the context of a U.S. educated student (w/ weighted GPA)? If they don't, it's no biggy. Thanks for thge replies though.</p>
<p>NO SCHOOLS DO! Well a few, like UCs, and a couple other publics, but generally, every school relies on your letter grades and course difficulty.</p>
<p>Actually pretty much every top university uses the applicant's weighted GPA now.</p>
<p>Stanford was pretty much the last holdout--they recalculated the GPA using letter grades and compared with course difficulty. Now they simply use the applicant's weighted GPA. They switched because "all of their peer institutions were already using the weighted GPA."</p>
<p>I'm not sure what McGill uses for US applicants. I don't believe the concept really has too much relevance in Canada as I think a lot of universities base admission decisions on provincial exam results.</p>
<p>But if a schools lists their Average Incoming GPA, it is the unweighted it states.</p>
<p>In other words, the 3.7 for McGill is unweighted.</p>
<p>By provincial exams, do you mean the SAT and Subject Tests? Also, under faculty does medicine fall under (I'm guessing sciences, but just want to confirm)?</p>