<p>I have narrowed my college choices to UVA and McGill. I live in Virginia so the in state tuition is roughly equivalent to McGill's non resident tuition. I have visited McGill several times as my sister attends and I absolutely love it, whereas while UVA is beautiful and warmer, I prefer McGill's socially inclusive atmosphere and urban location to UVA's relatively segregated one and Charlottesville. So basically I have chosen McGill, but I keep coming back to the schools' respective academic reputations. My feeling/understanding is that McGill is primarily interested in research while UVA focuses more on education. I plan to study Econ and political science, and desire to work for a few years in management consulting or something similar before going to law school. So I suppose my question is how would consulting firms (American) and law schools view a degree from McGill compared with one from UVA? Thank you!</p>
<p>UVA is “meets-full-need” as far as in-staters are concerned, whereas McGill has poor international financial aid. If you want to attend law school, you might want as little debt from undergrad as possible. Plus, getting a job in management consulting would prepare you for B-school on top of law school (most likely business law)</p>
<p>You’re most likely full-freight at McGill and, given your intended major, that costs $17k + R&B while UVA may cost a little less if you’re not in-state full-freight.</p>
<p>McGill totally! Its actually known as the Harvard of Canada. Most of its programs come in the top 30’s or so. It has a lot more recognition. UVA is also good but just doesn’t have that name (though Its business school is well known) overall McGill is better generally but its possible UVA has a better business program. You might wanna check out school rankings by business programs</p>
<p>@Catria wait so if you’re out of state it wont meet your need? Im living abroad (though I ain’t an int’l student) so im OOS, is there a possibility that they dont meet your need?</p>
<p>What I do know for a fact that UVA is better at is business: Desautels isn’t that great, undergrad or grad. McIntire/Darden are better. (I would recommend UVA if you wanted to study social work or pedagogy, McGill for pre-med or BiomedE)</p>
<p>For Polsci? You can’t go wrong with either. I don’t know how grade-deflating is UVA in that regard; else I hope you like NWU as a law school…</p>
<p>mcgill kid here.
im from a prepschool in vancouver and i was admitted to uchicago, cornell, which are arguably on par with uva if not better. I chose mcgill for family/personal reasons and regretted it ever since. go to UVA. mcgill is a dead end. </p>
<p>heres an example.
ive interend at Accenture (Management consulting), PwC (Audittign), and F100 corp strategy. while it is not impossible for you to break into the consulting scene; it would be damn nearly impossible for you to get the nice gigs (say mbb, ow, parthenon, etc) coming otu of mcgill as ocr at mcgill is mostly for Tdot. Im not sayign it doesnt happen, but its most definietly rare.</p>
<p>go to UVA where all teh MCs recruit from.
not going to cornell or chicago, even ucb was the worst decision i have made yet.</p>
<p>@harrebear: Is your inability to get good consulting gigs due to McGill’s limitations or the fact that your GPA is 2.5/4.0 (from your posting history).</p>