<p>I was just recently accepted to McGill's life science program. I think that I'll be happy in either city, but in terms of academics: Which one has generally better professors and research opportunities? I'm looking at graduate school in microbiology-related work (not med school), and I want to go to a uni that prepares me well for it. I need to respond to McGill's offer in 4 days, please help me out! Thank you!</p>
<p>I’m going into 11th grade and my choices for undergrad are similar to yours (like U of T, UW Madison, and McGill) so I was wondering where did you decide to study?</p>
<p>@TheHobbit98 I ended up going to University of Toronto. If you want I can talk to you in detail about my whole decision process.
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<p>Is there grade deflation at McGill?</p>
<p>Yes. There is also grade deflation at Toronto as well. I have been to both (undergrad at Uoft Life scie and masters at a Lab at McGill) and both rarely have class averages that are never above a C+/B-</p>
<p>@thewaffleman</p>
<p>In first year it isn’t too bad in Life Science at UofT, just be prepared for many of your classes to be with hundreds of other students at the cavernous convocation hall. People who are able to adapt to learning in that environment usually do alright, as first year material isn’t too difficult and rehashes a lot of grade 12 stuff in the beginning although some people have had trouble with the two introductory physics courses you have to tke. However that all changes in second year so don’t be caught off guard by the increase in workload. Of particular note BCH210 in second year is pretty challenging. In third year you have the two physiology courses as pre-reqs for most of the interesting final year courses and my only advice with those is study hard, because they are PUNISHING ( they are referred to as “weeder courses” because a big chunk of the class drops out after the first test). When i took PSL300 a few years ago the class average was a 52 after the first exam and the final course average was a C-. Its companion course, PSL301 was similar. </p>
<p>In short if you work hard in first year you can banks some easy grades which will be a boon in later years when you start running into the weeder courses and it becomes very difficult to get a lot of As in second and third year. </p>
<p>What about Queen’s, Western, U of Calgary, U of A, UBC? Do all of them have deflation too? Which of them give better grades in general?</p>