<p>Well, tough choice
I would like to study math and psychology.
and I think I prefer graduate school after graduating~~
you know, the cost really matters
also the weather</p>
<p>so, what's your opinion???</p>
<p>Rice is the coolest place you could ever go ever.</p>
<p>^^(but only in you are in Hanszen (jk)) </p>
<p>I would lean towards Rice although my info on McGill is not as complete. Rice offers about the best college experience I could imagine.</p>
<p>Rice due to size. unless you like cold. Then Rice is not for you.</p>
<p>What about math and psychology in Rice?</p>
<p>Definitely go with Rice unless you love harsh winters.</p>
<p>Weather is a problem if you intend to go to McGill, but they have a very good Psychology program. It’s very competitive though, something like 5-8% get in and you have to have a 3.8+ GPA to be competitive. Their math program is also strong, especially for grad. If you’re into Mathematical psychology Thomas Shultz in McGill is really one of a kind. The cost of living in Montreal is very cheap compared to similar cities in the US, but even though I’ve lived there most of my life, I can’t handle the cold. 
If you can’t stand living in Upstate NY, don’t move to Montreal. It isn’t that big of a problem if you live downtown (you can go almost anywhere through the underground network) but if you like sunshine and greenery, you won’t be getting a lot of it there.</p>
<p>Montreal is a fabulous place - it clearly trumps Houston for college student attractions - and McGill-Rice comparisons can certainly be made in the classroom, but I can’t imagine two more dissimilar out-of-the-classroom cultures. Rice is small, personal, and student-centered, built around active, involved residential colleges. My understanding of McGill is that despite its huge size, its extracurricular life isn’t of the same scope or intensity as top American universities. McGill campus housing is available for the freshman year, and scarce or non-existent thereafter. I would think that those attracted to McGill would be attracted as much to its host city as to their college experience, much like NYU students are in NYC. After researching McGill as a possibility for our second D, we decided that it just didn’t have the richness of campus life that we and she were seeking, so we struck it from her list but kept Rice on it.</p>
<p>I spent the coldest weekend of my life in Montreal, and I live in the Rocky Mountains. Cold doesn’t begin to describe it. Deep, penetrating, bone-numbing cold. </p>
<p>On a very different note, my sister went to McGill, and one of the surprises she had was the significant difference in how McGill operated vs. the US universities with which she was familiar. I’m not sure if this applies to every course, but I know that her courses were year-long with a comprehensive final at the end that determined the course grade. She had more big writing assignments and fewer tests. McGill seemed to have less organized for students in the way of social events, but it is in the heart of Montreal, which is an amazing city with an enormous amount going on all the time. Montreal is also an expensive city, and at least with the exchange rate at the time, purchases and eating out were very, very pricey. She took extensive French classes, but the French spoken in Montreal uses some significantly different vocab, and certainly had a very different accent. Montreal at the time was emphatically French, and there was a fair amount of anti-American sentiment, but that may well have changed.</p>