<p>compared to University of London and St. Andrews, is McGill a good school? Also, what is the St. Andrews reputation? Is it highly regarded or just a place where oxford/cambridge/UCL rejections go?</p>
<p>No speaky English in Quebecy</p>
<p>i've actually never heard of u of london or st andrews, mainly becauese i don't know anything about out of US schools, with the exception of oxford and Mc Gill. Mc Gill is a great strong school. It would definetly make TOP 50 on US News. I don't know if it would be in the 10's or 20s' or 30's or whatever mainly because i don't take interest.</p>
<p>they DO speak english in Montreal</p>
<p>St. Andrews has been full of Americans ever since Prince William went there. If you want a good university in Scotland, go for Edinburgh, because St. Andrews is definitely below it in quality (and well below Oxbridge and the London universities). McGill, on the other hand, is slightly below Toronto as the best university in Canada.</p>
<p>To which university of London were you admitted? Imperial has good science and engineering programmes, but UCL and King's are better in the humanities.</p>
<p>Have you ever been there? Try living 45 minutes away and driving up there to drink and try reading the signs in french when you're drunk.</p>
<p>I lived there for 3 years!!!!</p>
<p>yeah, what is up with all those americans at St. Andrews????? I mean, why do they like them so much. In UCL I got a 32 in the school of eastern european studies because they didn't offer russian literature/language/history in the regular UCL. Is it worth it?</p>
<p>I went to St. Andrews one year for grad school. The town is VERY isolated, and boredom is a problem. But it is right on the water and is old and charming. The university is scattered around town, and isn't very impressive from an architectural standpoint (in stark contrast to Oxford and Cambridge, which are architectural nirvana). Some of the academic departments are in old beat-up houses. The town has a lot of great pubs...so if you like drinking beer on cold and rainy days, it can't be beat. Winter in St. Andrews was cold but not bad at all for being so far north. Montreal would be much colder. McGill would probably be a better bet for undergrad, if you prefer the American-style system of courses. The unstructured British system of classes and exams in just one subject (you don't take courses in a variety of subjects in the UK, even as an undergrad) didn't look so good for someone who went to an American high school. British universities' grad degree programs are amazingly streamlined compared to American grad degrees. So it looked to me like going to St. Andrews for a grad degree would make a lot more sense than going there for an undergrad degree. I'm sure you would get your fill of the place doing a one-year grad degree.</p>
<p>McGill is a very good school, so is StAndrews. Choose based on whether you wan to stay in N America or go to Britain.</p>
<p>McGill is 95% english-speaking, Montreal is mostly french-speaking but the areas around McGill are mostly Anglo. You can definitely get by with english at McG but it would be worth studying French.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your advice!!!!!</p>
<p>Now I need to decide if UCL SEES is worth it!!!!</p>
<p>heeeeelllppppp</p>
<p>I think UCL is the best out of the Universities you posted</p>
<p>St. Andrews and McGill are about the same I think, depending on what you want to study</p>
<p>As a frame of reference, McGill is probably in the top 20s-30s in a worldwide ranking (so far, no reliable one exists). St. Andrews would probably be somewhere in the 80s-low 100s. Good, but not on the same level. UCL's SSEES is a <em>very</em> strong program. SOAS is too, for that matter.</p>
<p>Great school, plus it was listed as one of Playboy's top ten party schools.</p>
<p>McGill is an all-English language university, as decreed by it's founder.</p>