What are my Chances at Mcgill and other big schools.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am currently a sophmore in an extremely elite subarban public school in Minnesota. There are 840 students in my class alone. Top 10 percent at my school consists of students all with 4.0 gpa's, and a few 3.9's. My GPA is roughly above 3.7. I am ranked barely above the top 30 percent. At my school, an A- GPA makes you top 50 percent. These are the classes I have taken, and will be taking, (at my school, taking 3 AP's is a big deal because you have 4 classes a day and you get 2-3 hours of homework a day from each AP class).</p>

<p>Freshman year:
Semester 1:</p>

<p>Phsyical Science- B+, B
Gym (required)- A, A
9th grade Communications-A, A-
Introduction to Debate for Competition-B, B+</p>

<p>Semester 2:</p>

<p>Civics- B+,B
French 1- A, A-
Math 2x- A, A-
Intro. to Business- B
Keyboarding- A</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
Semester 1:
Honors Debate for competition: B, A
World History: A-, A
Math 3x: A, A-
Biology X: A, A</p>

<p>Semester 2:
Math 4x (Precalculus): A
French Continuing: A-
Chemistry x: B
AP US Government and Politics (1 term:hardest AP class available in my High school): B
Health (1 term)</p>

<p>Junior year:
AP Calculus AB:
AP Bio (3 term):
AP Calc BC:
AP US History (3 term):
French 2x:
Grammer and Usage (1 term):
Genetics:
Modern American Literature:</p>

<p>Senior year:
Modern Problems (required):
AP Physics:
AP Statistics:
French 3x:
French AP:
Philisophy in Literature:
Anatomy:
AP Chemistry:
Journalism:</p>

<p>I want to study microbiology or anything biology, and maybe medical. Theses are my afterschool activities which I will stay in for four years each:</p>

<p>Quiz bowl: several awards
Knowledge Masters of the Open:
Science Olympiad: 2 1st place awards
Freshman and Sophmore soccer team- team scoring leader freshman year.
Will join JV and Varsity Football:
Math team:
Debate: 2 years. Several awards.
Speech: 2 years.
Intramurial Basketball: 3 years starting this year.</p>

<p>Will have 150+ hours community service by the time I graduate. I have taken summer courses at the University of Minnesotta twin cities. </p>

<p>Please tell me what my chances are for Mcgill and other top schools.</p>

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<p>Could someone please post anything that can help.</p>

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<p>please. Anyone</p>

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<p>schools like wisconsin, washington St. Louis, purdue, anything.</p>

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<p>any school. Mcgill is my first pick because I used to live in Montreal for 5 years and I am a Canadian citizen. My dad was enrolled there and studied there for a year, but then transfered.</p>

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<p>please post soon.</p>

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<p>anyone please. You can also ask me questions if you want and if you have any. I could answer a lot of questions.</p>

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<p>I'd say you have a good chance at Mcgill. It's alot easier to get into for canadians and its not even the best canddain school (western ontario). If Your looking at Sciences and engineering more look at Waterloo. That's like the best engineering/sciences school in Canada compared to the more classicish Mcgill. Both my parents went there and their really successfull engineers</p>

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<p>Maybe if you stopped begging every 5 minutes people would answer...First off, you are only a sophmore, and you are asking people what your chances are at McGill? C'mon, no one is gonna be able to give you any clue about your chances based on your marks and ec's. SAT's are gonna be a big factor in getting into McGill. Plus, being top 30% is not gonna get you into McGill. You could try explaining your situation but I seriously doubt that you are at a genious school or something...It could just be ridiculous grade inflation, cause there is no way a normal school will have the entire top 10 percent with 4.0's...3.7 coming from America, (where the standard of education is lower than Canada) is not gonna help at all. You haven't really even got into the courses McGill looks at, as McGill looks at Grade 11 and 12 marks. So take it easy, keep working hard on your GPA and ranks, do well on the SAT's and you'll have a decent shot at McGill...you still have two years...but if you were to ask me if you would get in now...its still way too early and there isn't not enough significant information that counts in the admission process...But the best University in Canada by far is the University of Toronto, ranked 24th in the World...McGill is in the 60's...I think Queen's is actually ranked ahead of McGill as well...</p>

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<p>thanks man. I'll check out those schools.</p>

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<p>anybody else.</p>

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<p>what other canadian schools are good. Assume that I do a little above average on the Act like a 30.</p>

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<p>University of Toronto is good. Look at Western Ontario, Waterloo, and University of Alberta</p>

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<p>I'm a current McGill student. Your grades loook promising for McGill just so long as you don't apply Arts and Science.</p>

<p>I might have missed it, but what is your SAT/ACT score or projected score? </p>

<p>feel free to contact me or drop by the McGill forum for any questions on McGill (or for that matter, any canadian school, our forum has sort of become the hotbed for all matters concerning canadian universities)</p>

<p>noelle</p>

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<p>your chances look good now...might change over the years u have left</p>

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<p>As for the top canadian schools, the ones I'd name off the top of my head are</p>

<p>U of T
McGill
Queens
UBC</p>

<p>then
UWO
U of A
Waterloo
UVic</p>

<p>Though it depends what you want to study. McGill/UBC/U of T are the best for premed or science, imo :)</p>

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<p>those are pretty good schools but I still prefer Mcgill over them.</p>

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<p>funny, i went to high school in minnesota, never heard of an "elite suburban public school" around them parts......just call it a good high school.</p>

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<p>does Mcgill look at freshman year at all, or do they recalculate your gpa without counting your freshman year. And do they use 4.3 for an A+ and 4 for an A for gpa.</p>

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<p>Mcgill looks at all 4 years of H.S.
U of Toronto looks only at 11/12 th grade.</p>