<p>I was recently accepted into Trinity College at the University of Toronto. I'm still waiting to hear from McGill.</p>
<p>However, assuming I do get into McGill (perhaps a dangerous assumption), which should I choose? I am interested in the humanities (poli sci or English) and am considering law school in the long-term. I am American.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Hello. let me preface this by saying i did not get in to Mcgill, but i’m going to concordia next fall. I live in america, about 15 mins away from the USA/CA border and about an hour and a half from Toronto. Having been to both cites multipul times I’d say HANDS DOWN MCGILL!!! Toronto is fun, but very very expensive! If you go to montreal you will learn french and that is very valuable in today’s world!! Montreal is just a better city in my opinion. Good luck where ever you go!!</p>
<p>A friend’s son went to both, and preferred McGill.</p>
<p>Trinity College is definitely the best school in U of T, especially for humanities.
Both schools will offer you a very, very good education.</p>
<p>If cost is important, McGill hands down. The tuition about CAN$5-6k cheaper for Arts students ($14000 vs $19500), and Montreal is a much cheaper city than Toronto.</p>
<p>If cost is less important, remember that even at U of T, you will be paying much less than at a US school. Trinity has a smaller-school atmosphere compared to McGill, and it really depends on what you prefer.</p>
<p>Hey, from what i heard from my councellor at my school, she says that McGill is a more internationallly well-known and has stronger academics than Toronto. And it does seem that Toronto is a bit more expensive than McGill.</p>
<p>Basically, if you intend to pursue medical school, go to McGill; if you intend to pursue engineering, go U of T. Other than that, differences in the quality of education (professors, class sizes, student body, rigour) really depend on the major you choose.</p>
<p>Other things to consider: If you like the idea of a residential college system, go to U of T. If you are crazy about clubbing, go to McGill. If you like the idea of living in the most multicultural city in the world, go to U of T. If you’re concerned about tuition and residence costs, go to McGill. If you like Gothic-style architecture and a campus that’s integrated with the downtown core, go to U of T. If you want to go to a school that has fewer first-generation immigrants and more Americans and Francophones, go to McGill.</p>
<p>That is all I can think of for now.</p>
<p>^ That was just general advice; for you in particular, jotc, I would recommend Trinity College. First, it’s affiliated with the Munk Centre for International Studies, which means you get a lot of top-notch scholars stopping by who specialize in international relations and comparative politics; that, in turn, means more research and extracurricular opportunities. </p>
<p>Second, check out the Trinity College Literary Institute and the Trinity College Dramatic Society; one of those might be for you if you have a passion for Literature. </p>
<p>Third, U of T offers a unique major in Ethics, Society, and Law that might woo you if you are interested in interdisciplinary study. </p>
<p>Finally, U of T’s Faculty of Law is generally considered the best in the country, and you might be able to take courses there as undergrad or do a research/independent study course with a law professor.</p>
<p>Mustafah, thanks for the info. Trinity is definitely throwing another complication in the question - sometimes I wonder if I am choosing between McGill and Toronto or McGill and Trinity. </p>
<p>My big worry with either of these schools is that I’ll get lost within 800-person lecture halls and have very little interaction with my profs, etc. I hear that this is a problem at both schools but esp. Toronto. On the other hand, though, the collegiate system and Trinity specifically might be much more intimate than McGill as a whole.</p>
<p>AHHH! Continued thoughts would be helpful in preserving my sanity.</p>
<p>^Lots of comparative data onlne (sorry I don’t have a ready link handy) that shows class sizes are not that large. Some perhaps but no the norm and in the upper level classes you’ll have plenty of opps to know your professors. This whole class size thing is way overrated (esp. by those who think comparable US schools don’t have the same issue…most do in freshman year).</p>
<p>I rejected UofT Rotmans for McGill managment solely due to Montreal/McGill’s international reputation.</p>
<p>Are you considering the TrinityOne program?</p>
<p>Speaking of
Munk Centre,
[Reports:</a> Cyberspy network targets governments - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/29/ghostnet.cyber.espionage/index.html?section=cnn_latest]Reports:”>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/29/ghostnet.cyber.espionage/index.html?section=cnn_latest)</p>
<p>Yes, I am considering applying to Trinity One.</p>
<p>Well, I found out that I was waitlisted by McGill today, so perhaps McGill versus Toronto is a moot point.</p>
<p>You won’t go wrong with Trinity.</p>
<p>…And now I was accepted by McGill off the waitlist.
(So I guess this is a bump).</p>
<p>What have you decided?</p>
<p>I still haven’t decided - even after touring both again I’m about fifty-fifty right now, which is a problem because I have to decided FRIDAY. </p>
<p>A lot of factors (cheaper tuition, better reputation, possibly better city, and the opportunity to learn French) bode better for McGill. However, something about Toronto (specifically Trinity) intrigues me at a gut level…</p>
<p>Toronto is a much better city, but that aside choose McGill for undergrad and Toronto for law, as the latter has the best law school in Canada and you Americans seem to love Montreal, somehow french is exotic ( which I cannot for the life of me understand), so you will love the undergrad experience at McGill.</p>
<p>Jotc, if French is a factor, go to Toronto, take some french classes and join the french club. You’ll make a lot of friends that way as both Mcgill and u of t can be isolating. that said, nationally Toronto has a superior reputation. Not that, that matters to you, but it’s something to consider that Canadians know their own schools better than Americans. As for better city, I don’t like Montreal, it’s boring, same five people at the same five clubs. Toronto has more nightclubs per capita than New York city, Broadway shows, Opera, the ballet, world class restaurants and Irish pubs, museums and art house movie theaters and Hollywood multiplexes, amazing shopping from vintage to high fashion, all within a walking distance of campus. I know I recommended McGill earlier but it seems to me you are undergrad focused right now and I was factoring grad school before. If that’s the case, I’d go for Toronto and make sure you do Frosh week. it will be the best time of your life. </p>
<p>BTW, I am surprised you never considered Queen’s. It’s the most Ivy feel over both Toronto and McGill, smaller close knit campus and large community spirit and it’s reputation in Canada is higher than McGill’s and just as high as Toronto’s.</p>