<p>McGill's final testing atmosphere is incredibly intimidating...900 desks spread out in the gym in rows...and a scary woman with a loudspeaker at the front.</p>
<p>Calc didn't go terribly, but it didn't go great either. Sigh....ah well. it's over. Now to physics.</p>
<p>College finals really suck hardcore.</p>
<p>god bless the glory of humanities, the thoughts of taking more math and science would turn me green</p>
<p>this not exactly on topic, but i see no other better place. what do you, being harpgirl27, or others who are knowledgeble, of concordia u. and more, what of thier dorms, do they even exist?</p>
<p>Residences at Concordia are really limited...i believe they only have one rez and it's at Loyola campus, not the downtown campus. Not that the two are really far apart, mind you, but still Concordia is very much more a commuter campus. They have their own student ghetto...located to the west or east, i forget, of McGill. Out kinda by Solin only a bit further. The student ghettos are the places with a lot of cheap apartments where many many students live..they're fun places :) </p>
<p>you'd probably find a lot of answers to questions about concordia at <a href="http://www.concordia.ca%5B/url%5D">www.concordia.ca</a> . I don't know much about it but at my church and in the McGill improv troupe there are some people from concordia who i could ask questions of.</p>
<p>harpgirl,
which state/province are you originally from?</p>
<p>I'm from the Seattle, Washington vicinity :)</p>
<p>On a side note, what faculties are you guys applying to?</p>
<p>hi, i applied to mcgill wayy back in september.</p>
<p>i'm looking into business... specifically marketing. how is the business program there? also, do many students have internships during the summer/school year?</p>
<p>i took french back in 4th - 8th grade... lets just say that I can't say much. i've read that i should be fine with english, but i may get some cheek from the natives... that scares me a bit, but i intend on learning french when in college (or even beforehand, if i get in/go to mcgill).</p>
<p>anyhow, could you assess my chances?</p>
<p>i have a 700v, 710 math on sat i, 760 math sat ii c, 660 writing, and 620 us history... i've taken 3 ap tests so far (two 5's, one 4). </p>
<p>i really hope i can get in... its absolutely beautiful up there, and mcgill has an amazing rep as far as academics go.</p>
<p>also, i read in princeton review's best 351 colleges that mcgill has a lot of "long lines and red tape" regarding administration, registering for classes, etc. would you agree with this?</p>
<p>thanks for your help.</p>
<p>you have excellent chances at getting in :)</p>
<p>regestering for classes wasn't hard....their old system was a nightmare but minerva works fairly smoothly (though when you go to register i know a nifty trick with it that will let you log in even if you get an error message saying that the system is full). As for the admin, don't run afowl of them. Pay your bills on time, make sure your requirements are in good order, basically just be accountable for your choices and stuff and you should be fine. For me administration hasn't been bad at all since the application debacle ;)</p>
<p>two finals down, two to go, home on tuesday! now to the overpriced mcgill bookstore to buy christmas presents for the g-parents....</p>
<p>Update McGill rezes....went out to Solin with my boyfriend tonight--very very nice! though they need some serious decorating, perhaps a project for me to undertake later. Nice high ceilings, a common room and a kitchenette, closet space, a lot more like an apartment. Not to mention you have a bathroom and a half--two showers for a three person apartment. Close to the metro, but the ride is a pain. coming back I just missed the train and had to wait 20 minutes for the next one. Anyway yeah, it's nice and I would recommend it for anyone who doesn't mind cooking or a bit of a commute. It gets you out of the McGill bubble for sure, and the metro pass is a necessity. seems like a pain but in reality i think it's a good thing because it gives you access to all of Montr</p>
<p>metro passes get more expensive by the year. It gets so depressing in the winter too.
A couple of times I just got on the metro before the announcer announced some guy jumped in front of a train to commit suicide...and once I saw a deranged woman walk on the tracks before getting arrested and another billion strange events.
I just never liked metros (gloomy experiences, and I didn't like the weird expo 67 themes)
But in montreal its a necessity. I believe McGill is on the blue line? it's been so long...
and did they finally extended the orange line to laval?</p>
<p>McGill's on the green line :) And I still think that the metro is pretty cool because where i come from there is no metro, and the only other time i rode a metro was when I spent a week in London and commuted via the "tube". And still no metro to Laval yet...it's in the works, i hear, and I see a "projected extension" on my metro map, but i have no idea if it's even under construction yet. That'd be pretty cool though.</p>
<p>But yes, if metro isn't really your thing, than Solin is probably not a great rez for you. it's about a 20 to 30 minute walk i've been told, but in winter that equates with being pretty miserable. The closest residences to campus are Greenbriar and RVC. BMH is also pretty close. New Rez is about five blocks away, but it's not a bad walk at all. I'd take it over having to climb the hill, personally. it's all flat to new rez. Solin is the one that's in the middle of no man's land, out by Atwater Market. It's on both the green and the orange lines though, so you can get from there out to Jean Talon market or just walk to the Atwater market.</p>
<p>harpgirl: do they place Freshman in Solin? (The rez are all freshman, right?)</p>
<p>Do you know if there is a way to <em>not</em> get assigned to Solin if you don't want it?</p>
<p>lol, if you think montreals is bad, im from new york, personally, i think the subway system is easy and rather self explanitory, but ive met people who think its worse then hell, mostly because of the smell which i happen to enjoy
yeah thats random, but im blazed, and i like this paticular line of posts</p>
<p>sure, the best way not to get into any rez is to put it at the bottom of your list. When you're registering for housing they ask you to rank the residences in the order that you would prefer. Then they basically do by random lottery to decide the order in which applications are viewed. So if by the time they look at your app, all the spots in your #1 rez choice are full, they look to your #2 rez choice, and so on. Keep in mind that they differentiate between single and double rooms and such, so you end up having a choice list that's like 15 choices long. So it's highly, highly unlikely that something you put as your last choice you'd get placed into. If that happens there's a room switch form you can fill out after the start of school and you're pretty much guaranteed of getting in to SOME other rez :)</p>
<p>this is an odd question, but are people at solin like like hang out with each other, does anybody know what life is like there?</p>
<p>I've heard that Solin forms a pretty tight community because they're so isolated from the rest of the school.</p>
<p>I'd love to go to McGill but i'm not sure if my stats are high enough. I'm applying in Arts/Sciences Faculty i think:</p>
<p>-Iranian living in CA
-SAT I: 1380
-SAT 2: French: 720/ Math: 720/ Writing: 670
-GPA: 3.2/3.6W
-I speak 4 languages and have taken 5 years of language in HS.
-5 AP's/5 Honors w/ 4,5 on all AP tests and the rest are all advanced courses.</p>
<p>What do you think my chances are?</p>
<p>i think u'll get in for sure.</p>
<p>ich habe eine frage, i have a question. what are the numericle equivelants for the letter grades in mcgill. like is an A an 85-100 like B+ 82-83? because in america to me a 90 and above is, which if the former is the case, my 86 would be an A, and that would be wonderful</p>
<p>i took a nice little visit to the mcgill website, and i must say i'm quite into Solin. from your description, it sounds exactly like what i want... would you say it is one of the more desired residences? "more desired" meaning harder to get into...</p>
<p>(thanks for answering my other questions)</p>