<p>anyone here?</p>
<p>do you guys know if they require term 2 grades or just term 1 for senior year?</p>
<p>It appears to vary. Use your number and password to log on and look at your file. If they want it, it will say. Some have been asked to send them, others not. There is a thread on McGill under the "university" section that talks about it a bit.</p>
<p>They want all marks from Canadian students, but I don't know about American applicants. Offers of acceptance from Canadian universities are conditional on final marks to a higher degree than they are in the US, which means we don't have as much of a senioritis problem.</p>
<p>UT, McGill gives 2nd to all non-Quebec people(in other words, they don't really like outsiders).</p>
<p>If you can get in, MGill is better.</p>
<p>Both are excellent schools. Have you visited both of them? The campuses and atmosphere are very different. My D applied to both, in addition to Queens and UBC and will be going ot U of T (not UT, they get touchy about that ;)). What you want to study may make your decision a different one from someone else's. U of T was my D's first choice and she's very excited about attending. One thing to keep in mind if your decision is between those two is that U of T has an enormous endowment, rather unheard of at Canadian universities, and thus has more $$ to spend than does McGill. Funding in Quebec for universities and colleges has been so reduced for the past several years that it has become obvious when you tour the campus and have a look at the facilities. If you want a large urban university experience, you'll probably be fairly happy at either one. Good luck.</p>
<p>If you live in Toronto, then McGill is better
If you live in Montreal, then U of T is better</p>
<p>I'd like to get out of the city for 4 yrs!!!</p>
<p>hey a-bomb, are you Alvin Ho from Mississauga?</p>
<p>hahaha this is the second time i got asked that question...no i'm not alvin ho</p>
<p>Personally, I'm Canadian, and I went to Columbia in New York, I'm currently at the Bartlett [UCL in London] for my graduate architecture degree, and was recently accepted to Princeton's Masters Program, nonetheless, I would still pick McGill over UT. I definitely think it's considering the location of where one wants to live, and the lifestyle they'd like to live, and also placing the importance of the program they're going to complete. If one doesn't mind the dispersed Toronto lifestyle then go for UT, but I personally think that the location of McGill [right in the centre of Montreal around the Saint Catherine area], is a great way to be acquainted within an urban Canadian setting, and be located in a city with far more culture. Maybe it was b/c I lived in Montreal, been to Toronto, and lived in Vancouver. But I've been in New York for the past five years of my life, recently in London, and I still think that Montreal will win my heart over living in Toronto. Good luck with your choices, wherever the road may lead.</p>
<p>ive lived in toronto for 3 years and have been accepted to u of t and mcgill..</p>
<p>and ive chosen mcgill over uft..</p>
<p>the point of u of t having better funds than mcgill is a valid one but not valid enough to change the decision considering mcgill's EXCELLENT int'l reputition which is, in my case v.imp since i have future plans of working in the sub continent (pakistan)</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>Well, Mcgill's "EXCELLENT" international reputation may not be as hot as you make it sound. Yes, in Canada, Mcgill is sometimes ranked the number one university. But the latest international ranking only has three Canadian universities in the top one hundred. U of T was 27th, U of British Columbia was 35th, and Mcgill dropped down to an astonishing 79th. Of course, these rankings are based much more on research than anything, and U of T and UBC are much bigger research institutions than is Mcgill. Still, what should matter is what program YOU are going into, and what school would best suit your needs and your legitimate goals. One more thing... Mcgill is ranked VERY high by Canadians themselves. As a UBC student, I am familiar with the way Canada ranks its universities. A company goes around and asks students about their schools. UBC students, who make up one of the most critical universities I've ever seen, consistently talk bad about their university, dropping its Canadian ranking. Mcgill, with a rather prideful French population, tends to do the opposite--or so I hear. I would take Mcgill's "EXCELLENT" Canadian (NOT international) reputation with a grain of salt. Canada's top two research institutions are U of T and UBC respectively. On a more pleasant note, academics have coined U of T, UBC, Mcgill and Queens as Canadian Ivies, which means the prestige of all of the above has risen dramatically. I would still choose U of T for myself. But once again, you have to examine what school best helps you "achieve, with increasing facility, the legitimate goals of YOUR life" (MLK).</p>
<p>Noripj, McGill is not a french univeristy even though it is in Quebec... why do you say it has a proud french population?</p>
<p>"But the latest international ranking only has three Canadian universities in the top one hundred. U of T was 27th, U of British Columbia was 35th, and Mcgill dropped down to an astonishing 79th" -- noripj</p>
<p>is this released online somewhere?</p>
<p>"Mcgill, with a rather prideful French population, tends to do the opposite--or so I hear"</p>
<p>McGill does have a large French student population who do their studies in English-- However, the Quebec Student movement frequently calls it Anglo, White and Elitest because the school isn't that politically active.</p>
<p>how "hard" or "rigorous" is ut considered? (or have you heard)</p>
<p>I'm sorry to hijack this thread, but I have a question. Do U of T and McGill send out admission offers for A-level students? I did 9 O-levels and an A-level, and I'm currently doing 4 A-levels. Will they send me a conditional offer like English universities?</p>
<p>What about Waterloo? I heard it has the best math/science program.</p>