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Anonymous
| PP, thanks for your offer to talk about McGill. Is admissions like US admissions, or is there a different timeline/set of entrance exams? Thanks! |
Anonymous
I should preface this by saying that I completed my secondary school education outside of the country, in the British school system (in one of the former colonies). We had to complete "A" Level exams, and McGill used my results to assess me for admission. I suspect that they do the same with US high school results and SATs. I do recall several of my fellow American classmates (I was born in the US) said that they did submit their SAT results as part of their admission packages. The timeline is similar. I started at McGill in late August 1993, so it was not too different from the US system in that way. There is no specific entrance exam, as far as I remember. My impression was always that McGill does a lot to attract international students (and US students are considered "international"). We paid tuition of a non-Canadian, which in 1993 was the equivalent of about USD 7000 a year (I'm sure it's more now, but much, much less than the cost of college in the States). |
Anonymous
| Thanks, McGill poster. |
Anonymous
|
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2010/results
2010 rankings out now. |
Anonymous
Sorry, but it's hard to take seriously any scheme that ranks BU #64, Purdue #87, U-Maryland #104, Pitt #119, UVA #130, and Georgetown #155. (And that's just mostly-local domestic. It looks even worse internationally. The Sorbonne at #186? Are you kidding me? 99 slots behind Purdue?) |
Anonymous
For a perspective much more closely tethered to reality, see http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp (with only #5 Cambridge, #10 Oxford, and #20 University of Tokyo breaking the U.S. stranglehold on the top 20 worldwide). |