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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd always heard that McGill was the most prestigious university in Canada so I was surprised to learn that it has an admissions rate of 46%.  [/quote]

Different model.  Have high/clear/objective standards for admission, no arbitrary cap on enrollment (often driven by dorm capacity in the US), and then use the whole grading scale (not just B- and above).  So fewer lottery ticket applicants, everybody who has done the groundwork and can afford not to work FT post-HS gets a chance at a high quality education, and students get judged/sorted based on how they perform in college (HS achievements have little lingering impact).  Seems like a pretty sensible approach to me.  Would be similar to the top UCs if the system had kept pace with population growth.[/quote]

Not sure where this myth of B- being the floor started. Just not true. I have four in college at a wide range of schools and we’ve seen grades below that. Not many, but they happen. We have one at an “unselective” school and the work he’s doing is definitely not as demanding, but they will happily hand him a C when he doesn’t study or submits a crap paper. [/quote]

Elite privates in the US pretty much have this floor.  Less selective schools (especially public) don’t.  Again, a different model. [/quote]

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