<p>Hi. I am a first year student in the Mcgill Biological, Biomedical and Life Sciences program. I just finished my first semester here and I am thinking of transferring out after first year.</p>
<p>My reasons for this are not marks or academics as I think exams and midterms here are conducted reasonably. </p>
<p>My reasons are mainly non-academic. The campus is depressing. I live in the first floor of Greenbriar Apartments. A bunch of bloody bushes are blocking my view outside the window. I feel so isolated as if I live in a dungeon. My room is dark like a prison cell. It is so sad and depressing. </p>
<p>It is winter and I hate the weather here in Montreal. It adds to the depression how it has been cloudy for weeks now. I cant take the snow and how they never clean it up.</p>
<p>Despite the amount of the student diversity here, they do not offer halal or kosher food in the cafeterias so I cannot buy a meal plan. Im sick of thinking about what to eat everyday and the frozen food that I buy is unbearable anymore!</p>
<p>They kick you out of res after first year. OMG I cant cook for myself for 3 other yrs.</p>
<p>Please suggest a university for me to transfer where I will fit in better and where I wont feel depressed, where I can live in res for all 4 yrs, where I can eat in the cafeteria. Thank you. I hope I am not asking for too much but it should preferrably be in the same league academically as McGill. I was thinking of UTSG but I thought against it because of grade deflation. Please help me.</p>
<p>If you transfer to a top private in the US it will probably be around 60k per year, if that matters at all (I’m assuming you’re Canadian).</p>
<p>i was thinking of transferring within Canada. Does anyone know about UBC?</p>
<p>I can speak for UBC, if your looking at to apply as a transfer the deadline is JAN 30th. UBC’s is usually ranked pretty high for sciences but they have a lack of housing (mostly only available for freshmen). If you looking for a college that has a campus life that allows students to live in rez for all 4 years you may want to look down south in the use because they may have the “college experience” that your looking for. If your looking for a life science program that is up to par with mcgill in canada that may be hard because mcgill is at the top.</p>
<p>Winters in Montreal are long, cold and snowy. That should have been obvious before you enroled. They are not much milder in Toronto. </p>
<p>The McGill and Montreal experience can be wonderful if you get into it. Bushes in front of your window? Can’t cook for yourself? Come on. It sounds like you are suffering from a case of freshman homesickness.</p>
<p>collegedreamin1- I thought you could stay in res for all 4 years at UBC. I dont really wanna think about going south. I think it is too late to do the SATs, not that I want to do them anyways. I dont understand why people from Vancouver still come all the way here.</p>
<p>tom- I know it is my fault. I underestimated the non-academic factors and now I am in this deep quagmire.</p>
<p>A popular college guide book says that “McGill requires its students to grow up quickly. For some it is just what they are looking for. For others it is terrifying.” </p>
<p>No large Canadian university provides four years of on campus housing. I think Queen’s and Western provide some later years student housing. Even many American residential universities, like Cornell, do not guarantee four years of on campus housing. </p>
<p>You need to get out or your rez room and get involved with campus activities and city life (which is NOT necessarily limited to the bar scene). You also need to learn to cook!</p>