<p>Hi, sorry for another chances question. i've posted a thread earlier but no responses :S
i live in Calgary AB, and will be admitting to McGill with an average of 87.4%
I was wondering if i had any chances of receiving early acceptance? I won't list any EC's because it's useless.. :S:S:S
It is said that the entrance average was 89.3, but considering my school is in Alberta, as my councellor informed me, that our marks would be raised and reviewed easily??
Anyway, any feedback will be helpful thank you
P.S. diploma exams are just awful up here</p>
<p>I'm pretty much sure that you can't receive an early acceptance just from your marks. I'm on a scholarship here and got my acceptance later than everyone else.</p>
<p>Maxi, you are on scholarship? Could I ask what your stats were in high school? I've applied for one and I am curious!</p>
<p>well my stats might be kinda hard to translate to your high school system as I did the British A levels, so I managed to skip the first year too. For the A levels, the scholarships aren't solely based on your average for the last year but also on our last major exams the O levels which are in the 10th grade. If I could convert it to an overall percentage I guess a 90+.</p>
<p>hey i've been admitted to arts, but it says decision pending on final results. when i looked at the requirements it said that i needed to send them my ap scores and proof that i receive a diploma, so is that the only liekly reason why they didnt just say admitted? the only thing that may be weird about my senior grades is that i got a B- in government, but would that constitute a decision pending?</p>
<p>doriselin, McGill gave me the same message and from what I understand they said the same thing to everyone else too. Basically the only way McGill would rescind your acceptance is if you really had a significant downfall from your latest grades before they accepted you. For example, if McGill accepted you with a 92 overall average, but then your average falls down to a 78... well, it's not good to test fate. But generally speaking it's rare that colleges rescind their admittance unless you truly do a lot worse. Surely one B- is not nearly enough to constitute that.</p>
<p>thanks. i was afraid it meant something else because i know some people have been given just an admitted.</p>
<p>Pending final results just means they won't accept you if you don't get your diploma (who knows, you could get sick and not finish your year). And yeah, you also have to keep your grades up to something acceptable (so one B- is no problem, but if everything drops to B- then it might be another story).</p>
<p>is anyone currently writing about McGill??</p>
<p>if you have any specific questions, ask away.</p>
<p>What is the better program here, economics or business? As in easier to maintian a better gpa and prestige (job/grad school) prospects.</p>
<p>From what I heard, management is a joke when it comes to workload compared to other faculties. So business is definitely easier than econ.</p>
<p>But also, think about it?
Economics is a liberal arts subject, where not only do they teach you about the economy, in much more depth than a business major would, but because it is a liberal arts degree, you will likely be doing a way more significant amount of reading and writing in comparison to management.</p>
<p>Business=business. It is not a truly academic skill, moreover a vocational skill. It teaches you how to do, not to think.</p>
<p>Economics teaches you how to think, and in doing so should teach you to think well enough to do on your own.</p>
<p>And if you plan on going to any graduate school besides business school, economics is the way to go for sure. Any top grad school would be much more delighted to take a 3.3 from McGill econ, than a 3.7/3,8 from McGill business, simply because economics is academic and Business is not.</p>
<p>Also, as you might be able to tell, I am not a proponent of business for undergrad. It is not intellectual, so you arent really learning to think, just how to do business...only most people (assuming they have decent social skills) can do just fine with a little bit of business training.</p>
<p>So why waste time learning to do business, when you can develop your intellectual mind?</p>
<p>That's just me though, and I will always debate the superiority of liberal arts, humanities, and sciences, over business till the day I die.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about the joint Management(Finance) - Economics thing? Would you be taking economics from the Arts school? Also, how rigorous is the program?</p>
<p>will somebody please help me out with chances on getting into mcgill?? i keep hearing so many different replies and i just want to settle it once and for all 
currently i am a junior in highschool (i am international, but i am studying under the american program) and by my 12th grade year i will have a total of 4 ap’s. My current gpa is around 3.4-3.5 because the only grades that are NOT A’s that i have are Physics(damn yuuuu) which is a C and Pre-Calc which is a B. I have an SAT score of 1780 and im realllyy involved with many extracurriculars like model united nations and student council. I also want to apply into the management program at Mcgill.
so can someone tell me what are my chances of getting in?</p>
<p>very slim. sorry</p>