<p>Are the honors program at McGill worth it? What are the benefits to this program? Also, since I'll have to replace MATH 122 with Math 139 or 141, can I still get credit for MATH 122 since I took AP Calc AB in high school?</p>
<p>Thank you for your help!</p>
<p>People who take 122 arn’t allowed to take 139/140 series anyway so no I dont think you would get any credit. Tbh I dont see why you would even want credit since it does not help you for the honors anyway?</p>
<p>1) Certain Canadian grad schools make an undergraduate Honours degree a requirement for admission considerations. </p>
<p>2) It looks mighty impressive on your CV/Facebook or during dinner party conversations.</p>
<p>3) You get to take a greater number of courses in an area that interests you.</p>
<p>4) You have the opportunity to take 500-level honours seminars and/or write an honours essay for course credits.</p>
<p>@bubu111 I’ve looked at some courses for the joint honors program in econ & finance and some require MATH 140 and MATH 141. I was just wondering if my exemption from 122 would make up for 140 and 141…</p>
<p>@HieronymusBosch Does the program in any way give you an advantage in finding jobs, particularly in the US? Do you know what’s the acceptance rate of those who apply to the honors program?</p>
<p>And of course, thank you both for replying!</p>
<p>Calc BC gives some exemption for 140/141. 122/AB give none. The only education systems that give full get full credit for 140/141 are the IB and the british Advanced Levels as far as I know.</p>
<p>That program in particular is quite intensive in quantitative econ and is preferred if you plan to go to grad school for econ. Other then that, if you plan to go to do law or finance for example its not really an issue. </p>
<p>There might be some advantage but then again the same could be said for people who do the normal major and graduate with a very high gpa. Sky is the limit for both pretty much, no reason why one is better. There are people with history majors who still break into finance and there are people with who didnt take honours who still got into harvard for grad school. Basically, base your decision on what interests you, not what looks good.</p>
<p>There’s no application to the honours afaik. You just select it on Minerva at the end of U0. Everyone can take it provided they pass the prerequisites ofcourse.</p>
<p>^ Not at the end of U0. You enter at the end of U1. Requirements are mostly a GPA and/or CGPA. </p>
<p>I can’t say for certain what kind of advantage it provides for those entering the job market straight after undergrad. Presumably, it’ll give as much an advantage as having “Honours” on your resume will :p</p>
<p>^
Really, I’m quite confused then as most people I know entered directly in U1 and started taking some of the courses part of the honours already. Econ 250/257 and some of the 200 level finance courses to be exact. They took the linear algebra math class aswell, not sure of the number but its a pre req or coreq for some other honour class.</p>
<p>No acceptance rate for the econ honours, just need to pass the pre reqs afaik and anyone can get into it. Question is more of if you can handle it rather than how hard it is to get in as most drop out from it anyway.</p>
<p>The only real advantage is for econ intensive grad schools which require something more then the normal major in econ. Even here, the advantage isnt much as most grad schools offer a half year/one year catch up course to bring you up to speed anyway. McGills grad school itself offers such a program for its grad.</p>
<p>Sky is the limit really for whichever course you take. You can pretty much go into law/finance etc with a major aswell as a honours. The advantage for majors would be that it is generally easier to maintain a higher gpa there. People break into finance etc with history majors so anything is possible really.</p>
<p>My advice is choose something you actually enjoy rather than trying to hope for the best with it as it looks good. There really is no such thing as a advantage, both have their ups and downs at the end of the day.</p>
<p>I speak only for the econ honours program by the way. The other mcgill honours like investment etc have a acceptance rate and take very few from what I hear.</p>
<p>^ You formally enter Honours in U2, but just like how as a first-year student you (presumably) planned your schedule somewhat before stepping onto campus in September, students going into Honours will also be making sure their U1 courses will allow them entrance. The concept of “program planning” doesn’t change whether one’s pursing an Honours or a Major. The statement “you just select it on Minerva at the end of U0” is most definitely incorrect.</p>
<p>Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up.</p>