<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>I was just wondering if, in your honest opinions, students who applied to McGill from Qu</p>
<p>Well, for one, if you did that you wouldn't be losing a year because your CEGEP year replaces your U0 year at McGill. And, no, I don't think you would have it any easier because no matter what you apply as a Quebec resident, which automatically gets you a higher chance of being accepted (ie, they accept more QC residents than any other pool). I would just go to McGill for U0 because you will have a greater experience (and especially if money is not an issue).</p>
<p>Well, pool-wise it doesn't make a difference as mcgill? mentioned. I guess it depends on whether you want to do a U0 or you don't mind taking the slower cégep route which could make you better prepared academically, at least in science. Course-wise if the same class is offered in cégep and U0, the cégep version will be better (smaller classes with time to work in class, for example, my calculus classes covered more than their McGill equivalent). But if you completed highschool in the US then there will be some overlap in what you've done vs what's given in a 2 years program, and I'm not sure how much cégeps might transfer credits from US highschools.</p>
<p>I am presently in Cegep and I am telling you go directly into University. Cegep is the biggest waste of time you will ever, most of the stuff we learn we already know or we'll be learing again in university. If I would have been given the option I would have skipped Cegep it's basicly a continuation of high-school with a couple of courses that relate to your field of study.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice everyone!</p>
<p>I was really considering CÉGEP as a serious first option, but rather as a extreme fallback option just in case my first 3 choices in Montréal (McGill, Concordia, and the Université de Montréal) didn't except me.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>Spiter_01, what program are you in and where are you from? There is no overlap between cégep and U1 for most people (though I should mention I did math...). And there was practically no overlap between Sec 5 and cégep.</p>
<p>@blobof. I'm presently in commerce and I am from Quebec. I think the courses to be extremly repetitive, Quantitative Methods is High-School math, Accouting is stuff that ill have probably have to re-do in university. To me it just seems like a big waste of time. Since we only get 1-2 courses/semester that are related to our program.</p>
<p>Ah, accounting is a different beast. A friend of mine did such a program at Concordia, they had her retake some calculus because it was required for their stats class, which, actually, didn't use any calculus...</p>
<p>So glendalais89, what field are you going for?</p>
<p>PS: Just for fun, a classic joke. A man doing interviews for a job has 4 different applicants for the same position, an engineer, a physicist, a mathematician and an accountant. To each of them he asks one single question: what's 2+2?</p>
<p>The engineer's answer: It's 4, that's what they taught us at school and that's what it's always been.
The physicist goes off to do an experiment, comes back and says: it's 4 plus or minus 5% experimental error.
The mathematician says he'll work on it, goes off for the weekend and comes back answering: OK, I don't know the answer but I have proof it exists.
Finally, the accountant says: what do you want it to be?</p>
<p>Me? I'm going most likely towards Political Science.</p>
<p>Then yeah, I don't think c</p>