<p>Alright dude thank you so much 4 doing this, I really can’t find any answers online, so please bear with me.!</p>
<p>1) I just finished grade 11 first semester and I want to know if grade 11 marks count when applying 2 mcgill. I’m like 73% average and I’m definitely gonna get it up this semester and keep it up next year, but will I be denied access for my bad grades in first semester?</p>
<p>2) I live in BC so I’m not too familiar with housing and stuff. I know first year students get dorms but what does everyone else do? Get a apartment with a friend? How much does it typically cost if you and a friend rent an apartment? And are you allowed any pets in the dorms?</p>
<p>3) I hear the social life is really good at McGill but I’m having doubts since everyone after first year doesn’t even live on campus.</p>
<p>4) What do people do for fun? Is there a lot of school pride there, and is it easy to meet people because I really don’t talk to anyone in high school.</p>
<p>5) How much should I be aiming for to guarantee acceptance. I have no idea what I want to do right now or what I want to major in, but if there’s asian languages/japanese or something similar there, that’s probably my choice. Or possibly physics. Anyways, how much is considered guaranteed acceptance into any field?</p>
<p>6) How many people share a dorm with someone during first year? Do people get single dorms or double?</p>
<p>7) And lastly… how are the girls!!? My friend told me that his brother went to mcgill and that all the girls were stuck-up and didn’t wanna party or anything. Is it true?</p>
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<li> Your average has a long ways to go to get accepted at McGill.</li>
<li> Staying in an apartment is cheaper than dorms. Almost all of the dorms have mandatory meal plans which are expensive. Most dorms are about $7000 to $8000 for 8 months, plus the compulsory food plan of about $5500. You can get a two-bedroom apartment close to campus for about $800 to $1000 per month (so split two ways that is $400 to $500 per month or $3200 to $4000 for 8 months) and your food will be half or less of the mandatory plan. There are tons of apartments with easy access to McGill.</li>
<li> People don’t live on campus after first year because you can’t: McGill does not have enough dorm rooms to accommodate anyone beyond first year. In fact many years, McGill has to rent space to make good on its promise of guaranteed residence for first years. McGill is reputed to have one of the best social scenes of any Canadian university.</li>
<li>School pride isn’t really a Canadian university thing the way it is in the US, so by American standards, school spirit is low (i.e. not tons of people at games etc.). However, by Canadian standards, McGill does have a lot going on. The residence staff plans a lot of activities. Most residences are quite social (Greenbriar being a notable exception). There are tons of clubs and bars close to McGill so drinking is a large part of the social scene (and the age is 18).</li>
<li> Some residences are mostly single rooms (Royal Vic, Molson, McConnell and the other upper rez) and some are almost all double (New Res, Carrefour).</li>
<li> Everyone has their own opinion and your friend’s brother has his which is probably a minority opinion.</li>
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<p>Should I be worried if my application was completed (everything received) on Nov. 24 and my status still says “Ready for Review”?
At first I was like, eh no big deal. But a lot of other people who submitted have had theirs changed to “Further Review Required” already and it’s making me nervous…</p>
<p>"7) And lastly… how are the girls!!? My friend told me that his brother went to mcgill and that all the girls were stuck-up and didn’t wanna party or anything. Is it true? "</p>
<p>My guess is that the girls didn’t want to party with HIM.</p>
<p>LOL @ they just didn’t wanna party with him xD Yah I had a pretty hard time believiing it too O_o. Anyways thanks for the answers guys I’m surprised at how quickly people respond here. But there’s still a few things I didn’t get an answer for…</p>
<p>1) Can you keep pets in dorms?
2) So when you apply do you pick which rez you go into or do they do it 4 u?
3) Are there bathrooms in dorms or do you have to go out and use them? Also, what about showers?
4) What should I be aiming for in terms of average to have a good chance of getting in?
5) Do they look at grade 11 during admissions?
6) How easy is it to make friends, because if I’m gonna be staying off-campus after my first year, I wanna have a good number of friends so that I have someone to share with.
7) Where do you meet your friends? Is it your dorm mate/neighbors, your classmates? And, what are some fun things to do on-campus?
8) And lastly, as far as partying is concerned, I’ve been getting responses online. Some people say McGill nightlife sucks others say it’s great, some say it’s more montreal based than campus based etc… So I just wanna know which is true. BTW, are there certain clubs that are almost guaranteed 2 have mcgill/uni students at, or do you have 2 go with ur friends 2 meet an university ppl at a club/bar?</p>
<p>One other thing guys I was just looking over dorm costs and wow 6-8k for a year. Do you have to work part-time, and is it easy for s student to get a job? PS: If you can pick 2 go single or with a rom-mate which do you choose and why?</p>
<p>I can speak french pretty good actually. I’m in french immersion. But, if you don’t get employed, where do you get the money to pay for school/books/place to live?</p>
<p>IWannaGo2: You rank your dorm choices in the spring and McGill conducts a lottery to determine which dorm you get into. You might get into your first choice or you might get your last choice.</p>
<p>For New Rez and Carrefour, the bathroom/showers are in your room because these are former hotel rooms. For Royal Vic and the upper res’s, you go down the hall. On most floors, the bathrooms are coed. A couple of years back on April 1, someone removed all the stall dividers in a bunch of the coed bathrooms in an upper rez.</p>
<p>Some people value their privacy or need downtime away from others, so they choose single rooms (or more accurately, they rank the dorms with single rooms high). Others want the built-in friend, so they choose doubles.</p>
<p>@IWannaGo2: Finding a job on campus is actually very easy as long as you do it early enough. I have friends that work in the cafeterias, for the McGill Phone-a-thon, at the Gym, etc. As long as you send your CV (resume) and actively make an effort to find a job, you can do so.</p>
<p>Hi econograd, I am concerned about the giant intro science classes in the first year. Since you were in Life Sciences, have you found it hinders learning greatly? Are there recitation sections with TA’s and how big are they? From what I can tell, the first 2 calculus based physics classes do not have lab sessions associated with them, unlike every US college I have seen. Is this not a big disadvantage? I would love if some science students could chip in here.</p>
<p>It does hinder you somewhat, but I don’t think it is that big of a deal. I actually learned a lot from my science classes. If you go to the lectures, do the problems, you’ll learn a great deal. But I guess a lot of that learning comes from self learning from the textbook.</p>
<p>There are tutorials with TA but they are not mandatory. The TA will just go over the homework questions, nobody I know really bothered attending these.</p>
<p>Now, are you talking about Physics 141 and 142? They definitely have labs in them, in fact you can’t pass the course unless you pass the lab.</p>
<p>Hey guys. I’m sorry about my many posts but it’s really important for me to have an answer. So I received TOEFL results today. My results are : reading 29 listening 25 speaking 18 writing 24 total 96 .The score required is 90 with at least 21 in each section . I wonder if I have to retake it because of my speaking score . thanks
ps: I’m in a french high school</p>
<p>are you allowed to count classes as part of a requirement for two programs?</p>
<p>say i was doing the arts major in math, which has calc 3 as a required course.
but if i did the computer science minor as well, which has calc 3 as an optional course, could i count calc 3 towards the requirments for both programs?</p>
<p>You are allowed a limited number of “double counted” (note the quotes) credits (usually 6 credits, or 2 courses) for a minor, that is something that can count for the completion of both your major and your minor. You don’t get twice the credits with respect to your degree, but the class is counted toward both your programs, thus potentially leaving room for more electives (particularly, out of program ones, e.g. a language course). Only a few particular courses can be double-counted.</p>
<p>Thus, if you need 90 credits for your BSc, 54 credits in math for a major, 24 in CS for a minor, and decided to double count Calc 3, you’d be left with 51 credits in math and 21 in CS, but still 87 for your BSc. However, Calc 3 is a waste for CS (in the sense that there is no real computer science element to it), and usually, you’d double-count courses like Numerical Analysis instead (as opposed to the Numerical Methods offered by the CS department). I do remember having to fill a form for getting the minor/double-counting credits. </p>
<p>Also, you don’t have to double count anything if you wish. You’ll just get less room for out of department electives that way. So, in theory, you could count Calc 3 only toward your CS minor, but would need another 3 credits in math for your major. In my case, I completed a CS minor with the minimum 24 credits, including 6 computer science courses and 2 (double-counted) math courses, but had plenty of other math courses so that I actually didn’t need to double-count anything (I had more credits than needed in math). </p>
<p>Note that it could be the other way around too, you could take 2 computer science courses (such as CS 202 (intro to programming) and Numerical Methods instead of Numerical Analysis) and double-count them (as elective from the list) toward your major, but that is if you wish to keep your major credits to a minimum.</p>
<p>Are there any writing courses in McGill? Not just at the intro level, but also at the advanced level that one can take as electives to improve his/her writing? US colleges have/require plenty, but I seem to be having trouble finding any at McGill.</p>
<p>It is very easy to not pick up any French if you stay on campus. </p>
<p>If you have no French, then it would be easiest to pick some up if you take a French course as an elective and then make an effort to leave the McGill bubble and to use your French whenever possible.</p>
My friend told me that his brother went to mcgill and that all the girls were stuck-up and didn’t wanna party or anything. Is it true?</p>