<p>I'd seriously appreciate some advice/insight on my situation.</p>
<p>So one of my safety schools was McGill, and I found out Saturday that I was denied admission.</p>
<p>Before anyone dismisses me as cocky or anything, McGill is maybe more of a high target than a safety. Okay, I admit that. But on a technical level, I'm in the higher levels of their admissions standards, if not higher in certain areas.</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 W/3.4 UW
Class Rank: 130/620
SAT I: 700M/690W/640CR/9 Essay
SAT II: Literature (650), Math I (660), Spanish (660), French (800)
ACT: 34E/28M/29R/24S/11 Essay
Other factors to consider:
- Legacy
- Part-time student at Northwestern while still in high school since junior year.</p>
<p>Based on the information you provided, you have a 3.4 UW GP and you aren’t in the top 20% of your class. Your test scores look like they would place in the bottom 25% of the scores of students admitted to McGill. Putting it bluntly, McGill was never a safety school for you and, in fact, was a reach. Having the minimum requirements for a school does not make it a safety.</p>
<p>A piece of advice: don’t call and ask for an appeal because it would make you look really desperate and would show some real immaturity. From personal experience, I can tell you that the best way to deal with rejection is to suck it up and look at all the opportunities available at your other schools.</p>
<p>^Totally disagree, the appeal system is in place for a reason. You’ll never know until you try. The appeal system would not exist if schools just though all appeal-ers were “desperate” and “immature.” In fact, appealing the decision shows determination, drive, interest, and confidence.</p>
<p>You are the 25th percentile in CR (75% of students admitted have better CR), 50th percentile in writing, and a little over 50th in math.</p>
<p>3.4 GPA is below their average.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but this was a reach for you (or at least a high match). Getting into college isn’t meeting “minimum requirements,” except for some state schools, which may have led you to believe all colleges were like that.</p>
<p>How will it sound when you call and complain that you met the bare minimum and didn’t get in?</p>
<p>I hope you applied elsewhere, and I hope you find the place for you. Good luck.</p>
<p>I’d agree that a 3.4 GPA is really low for McGill. Your SAT is nothing spectacular and slightly below the median as well.</p>
<p>“Minimum requirements” is a poor basis to use as admissions standards. The median admitted GPA and SAT are the admissions standards. </p>
<p>I would not bother appealing given your stats. Even if you do, please do not bring up anything about the “minimum requirements” for your own sake. </p>
<p>Hopefully, you’ve picked out other, more reasonable “safeties”.</p>
<p>Fitting squarely in their 25th percentile – means you’ve misjudged your likelihood of getting admitted, frankly. The majority of people who would have similar stats as you are also getting rejected. The ones who slip in just above the minimums are not a pool you want to be counted among</p>
<p>all the previous posters pretty much nailed it. Mcgill wasn’t a safety for you, it was a reach. I hope you didn’t mess up like this with the rest of your college list…</p>
<p>The same situation happened in our house with DS1 - in 09. McGill does not look at rigor, only GPA in some cases - accepting from our HS a non-honors track student with better grades in much easier classes. It also admits by major, and the one you selected may have been tougher…</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents. DS1 had similiar stats - slightly higher rank too - it may be the rank that does you in as well.</p>
<p>hiii ppl, i am new to this forum, i am not able to figure out where to start a new thread to ask my question, can anyone out here help me out pls. </p>
<p>i apologise for interupting in this discussion.</p>