<p>Hi folks.</p>
<p>I applied to McGill for physics and was rejected. I got in for 'arts - undeclared', my backup choice. Ew.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how difficult it would be to take science courses with a view to switching major? I don't really want to study arts but I'd love to go to McGill.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t have an answer to your question, but were you a transfer?</p>
<p>I’m applying for a physics transfer today. My GPA is 3.5 from 1 year of university but high school transcript was kind of lame. This thread has got me thinking I better put a backup, like chemistry, and try to switch once I get in lol…>_<</p>
<p>Yes, I am transferring from a UK university. I don’t have science A-levels but I have at least the equivalent in university courses and yet they rejected me through supposedly not having the minimum admissions requirements. My first step is to argue with them that I do.</p>
<p>Well, good luck to you! Their admissions to science are 1 year of bio, chem, physics, and calculus right? I think I read that.</p>
<p>Switching major within a faculty isn’t too difficult (though a pain to schedule). Switching from one faculty to another is more complicated. You can certainly do math (or maths since you’re from the UK) in the Arts faculty (it’s the closest major to physics that can be done in arts, math is also offered in the science faculty, the program requirements are slightly relaxed in arts), and register in a few courses in the science faculty (not entirely sure about the details). Presumably, if you take the right courses, you might be able to switch to physics in science, though good luck with the red tape.</p>
<p>Blobof- I still haven’t submitted my application…so far it has my first choice (physics) but I haven’t picked a backup. Is there a backup in science you’d recommend or should I put arts- undeclared like the original poster?</p>
<p>You get accepted to a faculty, the major on the application is practically irrelevant (it’s only a matter if places in the program are limited, but that’s not the case in science or arts). As far as I know, undeclared is fine, and whatever second choice you have is of little importance.</p>
<p>If there aren’t limited spots in science or art why did the original poster get rejected for science but not art?</p>
<p>Because you still need to have the required grades/courses (and there are soft limits on the number of people to be accepted from different applicant pools). But within a faculty, like arts or science, there is not limit on the number of say, physics major or English majors. So the major you put on the application does not make a difference. The faculty does.</p>
<p>sorry to change the topic here, but I applied to the same faculties an programs as vizivi, but I was waitlisted from physics and still waiting on a decision from arts. What would my chances be for getting into arts, considering i was waitlisted for science-physics? Seeing that someone was rejected from science but got into art gives me some hope</p>
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<p>Why were you waitlisted? Vizivi didn’t get in because they said he didn’t have the science prerequisites, he said he’s gonna try fighting that because he did though. Are you transferring? From where? and what GPA?</p>
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<p>I don’t know why I was waitlisted. I have all the prerequisites, but there must have been a number of applicants with stronger numbers than mine. And no, I am not transferring, I am a high school senior</p>