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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]McGill has a great reputation and would be a plus in my workplace. McGill is a serious place.

Saint Andrew's grads likely wouldn't get interviewed.  Rick kids going on an extended field trip.   Doesn't seem serious at all. [/quote]

I really like McGill.  I lived in Montreal and have friends who went there.  Really good place.  Toronto, Queens, and UBC are solid, too.  St. Andrews seems like a finishing school for kids who want to make study abroad their entire personality; I haven't been very impressed with the people I know who went there.  That's doubly true for grad programs in the UK, even LSE; it seems like they'll take anyone who can pay in full.  Now, if you're an American who was admitted to Oxbridge directly as an undergrad, that's really impressive![/quote]

Yeah, McGill is great! But not sure why McGill being great has to include a denigration of St Andrews.

Having toured both, McGill felt more like SUNY Buffalo-- modern and uninspired with teaching delivery consisting of hundreds of kids in lecture halls, whereas St Andrews was centuries of history and inspiration, with a close knit academic environment and superb student experience, rigorous with support.[/quote]

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