<p>the title kind of says it all.....</p>
<p>i heard somewhere that A's at Mcgill were rare, is this because of the workload, lack of grade inflation, smart people setting the the curve,</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>was it just something that i heard somebody say that stuck with me. </p>
<p>any comments</p>
<p>I heard that before coming here, too, but what I've found is that A's are by no means impossible if you're willing to put in some hard work for them. I've been able to pull some off this year (U0 for me) and though it's taken a lot of work, it hasn't been overwhelming. It IS true that your grades may become a little lower, but that's nothing to be upset about (part of stepping up into university - you wouldn't want to go to a school that didn't challenge you at all!). </p>
<p>It's important to remember that, while right now you're probably one of the top kids in your class, most of the kids you'd be with here were also the tops of their classes, so all of a sudden you may feel like more of an "average student" or something - but that's definitely not a bad thing. It's so nice to be in classes with so many really intelligent thoughtful kids all around me.</p>
<p>From my brother's experience, you can get A's if you put in the works. My brother is a senior at McGill with roughly a 3.6 GPA, and he has quite a few A's sprinkled in there. The only grade my brother ever got that was below a B was for some Film class he got a B- in, but supposedly it was a rediculously hard class where the average grade was something like a C+ (Usually the average grade at McGill is a B).</p>
<p>It also may interest you to know that my brother is not a very fast reader and only had an 1180 on his SAT (out of 1600). The SAT has nothing to do with how well one will do at McGill. You can get A's at McGill, but you have to work hard for them. End of story.</p>