<p>Hello,</p>
<p>How is the McGill undergrad bus school rated? Is it good for landing jobs in consultancy or IB?
How is the college for international students?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>McGill is arguably the best known university in Canada, which helps when speaking to recruiters. It is also notoriously difficult to get into for US students and it is also very difficult to get good grades (which may make a difference if you are planning to do an MBA). You need an A- MINIMUM average for grades 10 thru 12 and you need a MINIMUM 650 on EACH of the SAT sections. It does not matter if you took easy courses, honors, or AP. McGill does not weight your grades. So if you want to get into McGill, take the easiest course offered by your school and ace the SAT. Nothing else matters to them.</p>
<p>Also see this post from a current McGill student in business.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11240636-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/11240636-post5.html</a></p>
<p>thanks.
I am an international student, so i guess they’ll only look at my A-level grades.</p>
<p>consulting and IB are always hard no matter where you go. Harvard kids are falling left and right this year due to high return rate of interns. Don’t pick college based on your dream job, be practical. If you go into business school and don’t get into one of those elite jobs, you’re stuck doing finance for some start-ups in Saskatchewan (do I spell that right?) and forget about doing MBA. Finance major is like gambling, go big or go home.</p>
<p>Totoro:</p>
<p>You say McGill is notoriously hard to get into if you are an American. </p>
<p>That being said, if you have the stats you just mentioned, is it harder for an American to get in than a Canadian?.</p>
<p>My son has very good SATs:</p>
<p>800 CR
800 writing
700 math</p>
<p>But only about a 3.6 or 3.7 unweighted gpa.</p>
<p>And not much in the way of ECs.</p>
<p>So what should i do?
Should i look at other schools like Schulich and Queens??</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>There are more opportunities at Ivey, Queens or UofT. But that in no way means you will have an easier time getting into consulting or IB. Networking is important, I once got an offer by winning squash against a MD. You should start from the first day you set foot on college.</p>
<p>Btw, this is not really the right forum for career advising.</p>
<p>I came across yet another ranking. Interesting considering the source though:
[Education</a> - Image - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Education - Image - NYTimes.com”>Education - Image - NYTimes.com)
Business leaders ranked McGill 19th worldwide as a source of recruited students.</p>
<p>McGill is a big name. McGill management is not. Bain and most BB banks don’t have OCR at McGill. BCG only started this year. Anyone applying for ibanking should know that OCR is a mega-super-duper-huge help when it comes to nailing an interview. I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’ve seen people done it. But going to the three I mentioned will at least improve your chance of getting an interview. Whether you ace the interview or not does not depend on which college you go to.</p>
<p>Also OP, getting into consulting and IB have more to do with networking than your choice of college. One downside of McGill is that it’s located in Montreal, which is also a financially dead land in a financially dead province. All banks’ headquarters are in Toronto and it’s very hard to network with the decision makers there if you’re 6 hour drive away.</p>
<p>Okay thanks for all that info.</p>
<p>I was looking at other unis in EU such as Erasmus Rotterdam, Bocconi, SSE and maybe University of Amsterdam. </p>
<p>Are those unis any better than McGill/Schulich/Queens with job placements and overall standard(kind of a vague question, sorry)?</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone can have an answer to that question. They’re just in different continents. Even the recruiting procedures are different. Europeans are big on grades and standardized tests. Americans like down-to-Earth people. You definitely have more choices in NA, and competitions are hell everywhere anyway, so it might be a plus.</p>