<p>Hi! I'm going into grade 11 this sept. and I've been interested for a while in attendin McGill for their dietetics program...
I have a few general questions that a current student from McGill or someone who just knows a lot about McGill can answer...</p>
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<li><p>The Entrance Scholarship is 94% minimum for all 3M, 3U, 4M, and 4U classes... Does that mean 94% Overall average of 94% per course/credit? (By the way I'm a Ontario High School Student)</p></li>
<li><p>Since I'm entering "Freshman Year" at McGill, do I still pay the same tuition price as a normal student would? (For the Fall/Winter term) or do out of province/US/international students pay a different price?</p></li>
<li><p>Are "Freshmans" considered first year?</p></li>
<li><p>Do Scholarships cover the cost of summer courses too? (The Dietetics program has summer co-op which is 3 and 5 credits each then a 14 credit co-op placement from sept-dec)</p></li>
<li><p>What is a 3.7 GPA standing?!?
I supposedly need 92.5% every year to keep renewing the entrance scholarship but i think getting 92.5% average is really hard... My friend who got the presidents scholarship (At York) only has to get 87% to keep her scholarhip :S</p></li>
<li><p>McGill's social life?
I've been hearing from people that McGill is a "party school" because the drinking age in Quebec is 18 and supposedly they go party often...</p></li>
<li><p>Which Rez should I go to?
(craziest/best social life, single room, no meal plan, not too expensive...etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>How many people actually graduate?? Is McGill a hard school to survive in? I know that for my program you need to get a GPA of 3 or CGPA of 2.0 to "pass" or continue with studying</p></li>
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Yup! I’d recommend being as far above this cutoff as possible, as you’ll only get the lowest (i.e. non-renewable) scholarship otherwise (at my school we had a much lower minimum cutoff, and the renewable scholarships started at about 95%!).</p></li>
<li><p>You will pay out of province fees no matter your year.</p></li>
<li><p>Yes.</p></li>
<li><p>If there is extra left over, they will likely be usable towards summer courses. As you will pay out of province fees, you probably won’t have extra unless you obtained other outside scholarships.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s 3.85 at my school (about 87% as well). Granted, my school is probably easier, but I managed it for all 3 required years. Make sure that you maintain a 3.7, not 80-84%, unless you verify that it’s the percent average and not the GPA average that is required. (I’m not sure how you got 92.5%, as McGill’s site says 80-84% is an A-, unless the grading scale is different for your major.)</p></li>
<li><p>It’s what I’ve heard too, but I have no first-hand knowledge of it. :p</p></li>
<li><p>No idea!</p></li>
<li><p>[RETENTION</a> AND GRADUATION - MCGILL](<a href=“http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/educq/Per04Dip99McGAngl.html]RETENTION”>http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/educq/Per04Dip99McGAngl.html) It looks pretty good. And don’t worry about it too much – going below 2.0 usually just puts you into a probationary period where you take fewer courses for a semester or two to get your grades up again.</p></li>
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<p>Good luck – my friend says it’s a great school, and she loves it there. :)</p>
<p>Note regarding the retention data above: those numbers only reflect students entering McGill through the Quebec CEGEP system (i.e., students who have completed two-years of “college” courses), which is why those numbers are so small (in fact, even for they’re just Quebec students they still seem small :p)</p>
<p>Whoops. Thanks, HieronymusBosch, I really ought to have read that a bit more closely! I found a pdf from McGill that said that their undergraduate graduation rate was 83.1% vs. 75.4% on average for other Canadian universities (within 6 years for a 4-year program). That’s not too shabby.</p>
<p>Cool! That is indeed pretty good; thanks for letting us know.</p>
<p>AHH! thanks so much:)
I’ll be going to McGill in either 2014 (I decided to not go to a CEGEP and get quebec residency status) or in 2016 (if i do)
I couldn’t sleep last night because I kept googling stuff…hehe</p>