question to McGill applicants

<p>can anyone give me the cutoffs for mcgill's management faculty for the british system for year 1 bcomm program</p>

<p>mcgill's prob #1 on my list after i got deferred from princeton. parents rather i go to an ivy if i got in but i love mcgill so much!</p>

<p>Don't let your parents determine your choice of college. My daughter is a sophomore at McGill and she loves it. It's a big school and you have to make your own way. It has a wide variety of students from many different cultures and countries - something that you won't find at Princeton. Going to Princeton won't make a bit of difference to you - your opportunities will be just as great graduating from McGill. I went to Dartmouth and I can tell you that an Ivy League education doesn't guarantee anything. Finally, there is nothing in Princeton, except Princeton. Montreal is a whole universe.</p>

<p>thank you bondnj0! i wish my parents can see it this way. what's ur daughter's major?</p>

<p>My daughter is majoring in Geography and Latin American Studies. She's learning a lot about Geographic Information Systems - a growing and important field vis-a-vis economic development, public services, agriculture, etc. </p>

<p>Make sure your parents know that William Shatner - aka Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise - attended McGill. What more could they want but for you to explore other universes! Really, it's a great school - have them come up with you to Montreal for a weekend - they'll fall in love with it. And the money they'll save between McGill and Princeton will pay for grad school.</p>

<p>haha...william shatner...my parents immigrated from china and they have no idea who he is. lol. we went to visit mcgill this summer and it was right during frosh week. so our guide was like "and if ur 18, please help urself to some free beer." ....awkward silence. anyhoo i mean they loved mcgill too, especially my dad because it's cheap. my dad's pretty much for cheap places. but my mom is like the stereotypical chinese lady. "u have to go there...u have to do this...and so on" i think she's worried that i'll have too much fun and never come home. </p>

<p>is ur daughter finding the courses difficult? i went to school in canada until 9th grade. i was in the gifted program and got straight B's. but once i got to the US, i got pretty much straight A's. i'm afraid that i'll go back to canada and not do as well, especially when med school puts so much emphasize on GPA.</p>

<p>Frosh week = not great time to visit McGill w/parents!! haha mine left before frosh kicked off, a fact I was very grateful for. </p>

<p>I hope you don't mind if I comment on McGill classes...I'm in the freshman program for science, and I've found them to be difficult but probably not moreso than united states schools. I was a 4.0 student at a lower-end public school, and then came here and got a 3.4, but I probably could have done better and will aim to do so this semester. I had two friends get 4.0s this past semester. </p>

<p>anyway I've learned a lot and had a really positive experience at McGill and in Montr</p>

<p>so many distractions in montreal...lol i doubt i'll be able to get a lotta studying done...stupid self-discipline. anyway..wow i've heard so much positive things about mcgill...actually no negative remarks except sometimes the classes are too big. but whatever, that happens at most places. urgh mcgill needs to adopt early decision or action. this waiting game has to qualify for some kind of torture.</p>

<p>yeah, there are distractions, but keep in mind that they do cost money ;) so you can only do a certain number of distractions, and stuff. It gets easier, i guess, to study once it turns freezing, because the idea of wondering around the city is much less appealing when it's -40 outside.</p>

<p>omg...i love how i would be freezing my butt off, and my american friends are like "u can't be cold! ur from canada." tsk tsk tsk...it's not like i don't feel the coldness piercing my face when the wind blows.</p>

<p>hahaha, there's a temperature point where even eskimos are freezing their butts off ;)</p>

<p>my point exactly!!!</p>