<p>the acceptance rate listed on various websites for mcgill is on the higher side (46%), but does anyone know what the acceptance rate is for american students? is it similar, or is it far more difficult for an american student to be admitted?</p>
<p>More admission stats than you probably want to see;
<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/files/scap/Fall_2009_SZRAADS1.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mcgill.ca/files/scap/Fall_2009_SZRAADS1.pdf</a>
You may need to click “refresh” to see the pdf.</p>
<p>Last year, my friend’s son, who had a 740 on his math sat, did not get into mcgill.</p>
<p>floridadad, any idea what his uw GPA was? That seems to be a very important criteria for McGill.</p>
<p>floridadad55: What was the verbal sat? If it was 600, then I can understand why he didn’t get in, but if it was 800, then his gpa was probably low.</p>
<p>Here are the admissions standards from last year. Note that the standards vary from faculty to faculty. </p>
<p>If a student was interested in the biological sciences in the Faculty of Science, and had lower than an A- in one of the prerequisite science courses, the student would be automatically disqualified and not even considered. </p>
<p>[Admissions</a> standards (US)](<a href=“http://www.mcgill.ca/applying/standards/unitedstates/]Admissions”>http://www.mcgill.ca/applying/standards/unitedstates/)</p>
<p>tuttopassera: I wouldn’t confuse selectivity statistics with the difficulty of acceptance. Some countries regularly have 0% of their applicants accepted–this doesn’t mean that McGill is harder on those applicants, but rather that those applicants are underqualified. Quebec students have a high admission rate, but that does not mean the bar has been lowered for them–most McGill students note that Quebecers are the best-prepared for university studies of any of the major sources of students. </p>
<p>As a world-class university, McGill wants the best-qualified applicants, regardless of where they come from. To maintain its reputation and to enhance the education of its students, everyone benefits from admitting only the best applicants. Hence there is no geographic preference. McGill already has a higher percentage of international students than any of its American competition (i.e. HYP etc.), so it doesn’t have that motivation to lower the bar for internationals the way the Ivies do (since in the US the presence of a large percentage of international students helps a school in rankings).</p>
<p>One frequently reads comments on this board McGill lowers the bar for non-Canadians because they pay more tuition–the stats do not appear to support this (nor does logic nor financial comparison). Those paying the lowest tuition (Quebec students pay a fraction of what other Canadians pay who in turn pay a fraction of what internationals pay), have the highest rate of acceptance among major student sources.</p>