<p>I'm considering going to McGill for undergrad because the tuition is really cheap since I'm a canadian citizen, the city is pretty nice and the academics are good. My parents are really supportive of this and they said they'll pay for everything, so I can graduate without any debt and have internships instead of paying jobs over the summer. The only problem is that I might decide to go to Law School later and I've been hearing that with McGill's grade deflation, it would be practicaly impossible to go to one of the top law schools in the US. But I also don't want to enter Law School with debt from undergrad and have to take out loans on top of that. Is there any way to get into a good law school form McGill, or would it be better to just take loans out and go to an Ivy for undergrad??</p>
<p>McGill's grade deflation?? enlighten me as to that...I've found it as hard or harder than my friends in the states to get good grades here, including my friends in the ivy league. but I am in science, not in arts, so you should definitely research McGill graduate's placement into ivy league and compatable law schools.</p>
<p>I think it's a good choice, although no Canadian school has nearly as high the placement rate of ivies. When I looked at Harvard/Yale law school's placement rates, McGill/Toronto/UBC were all tied for the highest placement from international schools. Dalhousie was the only other Canadian school to send someone to Yale law apart from these 3. For Stanford only 1 Toronto student got in. I forget the other law schools but you get an idea. If you do get accepted to any ivies, I would go. Only 3 people in my graduating class got accepted to ivies - MIT, Princeton and Cornell. They all got full scholarships to every Canadian school, but still chose the ivies.</p>
<p>Where do you look up the placement rates?</p>
<p>You'll have to search for it going through their websites.. here's one (changed a bit from last year):
Harvard 2004 law school admissions for their J.D. program:</p>
<p>(Number of students placed)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/admissions/jd/colleges.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.law.harvard.edu/admissions/jd/colleges.php</a>
University of Toronto - 3
McGill - 2
Waterloo - 2
Western Ontario - 2
Cambridge - 1
Oxford - 1
Tokyo - 1
University of British Columbia - 1
Alberta - 1
Ottawa - 1
Sydney - 1</p>
<p>Wow, Stosj, thats very interesting information. Do you know of other law schools that also do that listing like Harvard?</p>