<p>going into arts. senior year gpa was a 3.65 with five As and three Bs. How bad would one or maybe even two Cs be so that I don't get my admissions revoked? these grades were Bs to begin with. Thanks!</p>
<p>you have to be failing to loose your offer of admission. Either failing, or accepted with a history of A's and a final record of ALL C's and D's (aka a visible discrepancy in performance).</p>
<p>anyone else want to support this statement? if it really is all Cs and Ds, things would be so nice...</p>
<p>I thought you said McGill was a stankhole and you'd rather go to Rutgers in Newark! I'm not gonna B.S. you, if you just barely got off the waitlist into arts, you'll probably fail out after u1 if you have trouble making C's in high school. I really encourage you to reconsider, or at least defer for a year and get some perspective. McGill is so broke their letting in too many students, many who are really not qualified for the workload.</p>
<p>since when was a 3.65 equal to trouble making Cs? and why are you arguing? if you're not going to post any info related to the thread, then don't bother.</p>
<p>hmmm u can drop pretty low...i guess</p>
<p>but y would u risk it?</p>
<p>To answer that question: I dunno about you, but I stopped doing work and started smoking pot 5 days a week the instant I got into McGill. I'm still pulling A's and B's, but I can see how someone would want to go the extra mile with C's and D's. High school just takes a back seat to everything else, you know?</p>
<p>bump. what happens if i get a c in one of my classes?</p>
<p>^^nothing...even if u had a 4.0 gpa before</p>
<p>and anything above an overall gpa of B- is fine...going below that would be risking ur acceptance</p>
<p>god damn, kids get dumber each year...</p>
<p>I'll recant my near 1 year old post, and say this:</p>
<p>unless you don't get your diploma, or fail 1+ classes, you won't get your admission offer rescinded. </p>
<p>1 D is bad, but I doubt they'll rescind. Don't you think the people that'd know best are the admission people themselves?</p>
<p>Just pick up the phone, and roll your fingers over them 7 (or 10 if your international) digits. Wait 10-60 minutes, and roll away. It's just that easy. </p>
<p>p.s. I understand how unnecessarily weird this post was...</p>
<p>drmambo, i actually did ask them this question today when i called them to ask if i needed to send in my AP scores thru collegeboard.</p>
<p>and I think this is a valid question if u r taking classes like Calculus BC or AP Physics C....</p>
<p>and its so frustrating that I am the only one here who hasn't found out...</p>
<p>...I'm not saying you should be getting A's in your AP's but if AP is any model of college intensity, and you're afraid you're going to fail your AP's...</p>
<p>They didn't give you an explicit answer over the phone? Email someone.</p>
<p>people, even in a class like AP calc or physics, it's only logical to not get a D in the class. if you couldn't take the load, you would have dropped it first semester (several people also transferred mid-semester). otherwise you're just slacking off too much.
post 12, hasn't found out about what?</p>
<p>i was saying that I still have decision pending and havent found out yet unlike everyone else on CC
and by bad grades I didnt mean a D. In my school you, really need to try hard to get a D..lol...I was talking about going down from straight As to straight Bs which is fine cause u need to get below a 3.0 gpa to get rescinded.</p>
<p>Just a note for future reference B's DON"T EQUAL BAD GRADES. Get some f!*$ing perspective. There were plenty of kids in my high school who would've killed to get A's (for them, B's were sometimes the best they could do), and I came from one of the best public high school's in IL. </p>
<p>Here's the universal grading scheme: A = excellent, B = good C = satisfactory, D = conditional pass (aka bad, but as long as you don't continue in that course scheme, ok) E = unsatisfactory (you shouldn't have been in that class, or you should've gone to class...).</p>
<p>If anything, enjoy your A's while you can in high school, because if you go into the Arts, you won't be getting as many of them. I don't know of any upper year students with 4.0's in the Arts. The highest I've heard of is a girl with a 3.98 who atop of being accepted to every grad school she's applied to, is a Rhodes Scholarship finalist (something most of you won't be).</p>
<p>A 4.0 in the sciences/engineering faculty is impressive, but possible; I'm not so sure about that in the faculty of arts though. There are enough kids iat McGill to make it reasonable to assume that there's always someone better than you at what you do, and seeing as they grade relatively here that person will get the A while you might get the A- (if you're lucky).</p>
<p>Oh and if you go into engineering, classes like thermodynamics work the same way. You get a "z-score", meaning you get a grade that's based on where you are in your class. If you're average, you might get a B-. If you're good, a B. Only the top 5% of the class are allowed A's. </p>
<p>^^ I haven't confirmed this information, a friend of mine in chemical engineering told me this, so take it for what it's worth...</p>
<p>yea ur right, but all colleges use z test statistics in grading to make it fair(not just mcgill). Its basically ur average subtracted by the class mean divided by the standard deviation for the class test scores...usually these things help u
and they never curve u down....so if by chance the whole class gets a 100, it doesnt mean that everyone will be curved down to a B.</p>
<p>So they only use this system to help us and not hurt us...and btw its not that hard to get above a 3.6 gpa..In fact, if ur premed, then that is the minimum gpa u can get before applying to med schools. I have heard from a friend that at McGill, most premeds get around 3.7s and McGill has literally thousands of premeds...</p>
<p>Two statements of interest: "all colleges use z test statistics", and "they never curve you down"...I can personally comment on the latter. You can easily get curved down here if you do too well. If you got an 85, and the average was a 60, after curving there's a high possibility that you'll be brought down closer to the new average (I've seen it done before). </p>
<p>I love how you're telling me it's not that hard to get above a 3.6. Maybe in U0 it's not that hard, but I'd like you to PM me at the end of your junior year and tell me what your GPA is. Then tell me the gpa's of your five closest friends. </p>
<p>I never said a high GPA was impossible in the sciences, I just said it wasn't easy. I doubt most "premeds" (what ever that even means) have above a 3.6 GPA. There's no specific "premed" track at McGill, making that term very broad. A "premed" student could be majoring in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, physiology, mathematics, etc. (to illustrate how many different majors you could take and still get your premed requirements out of the way). Hell, and english student could be premed, for all you know. </p>
<p>I guess what I'm saying is: good luck with your 3.6+ pursuit.</p>
<p>if the class average is 60 and u got an 85 that ll easily get u an A...I am a 100 percent sure on that. If u knew how the statistics of this works, then u would know that they try to get a bell curve for test scores. So getting 20 points above an average puts u on the right side of the median grade...close to an A
Could an actual McGill student please comment on this topic??</p>
<p>and I am not saying that getting a 3.6 is a joke. But if ur doing premed( with any major) , getting below a 3.6 simply means that u ll most prolly be rejected from most of the medical schools on this continent.</p>
<p>and I know for a fact that McGill's premed students' medical school acceptance rate is above 50 % which means that at the very least more than half of McGill premeds have above a 3.5 gpa...</p>