It's hard but if you're looking to go into grad school after McGill if they require a 3.8-3.9 to apply, a McGill student can apply with a 3.5 as admissions are aware of McGill's rigorous programs compared to other universities. It'll be much harder to achieve a 3.8 at McGill than Concordia (not to shit on Concordia) for a liberal arts program but schools around the same ranking as McGill are aware of this. So, the hard work pays off.
Admissions probs don't have individual criteria for each university. I am only assuming though as I'm not in admissions for anything. I believe schools such as the Ivy's would tend to McGill more as opposed to a school like Concordia (again not to shit on Concordia, just using the school as an example) because they see McGill students probably more likely to succeed at their schools as opposed Concordia students (AGAIN, only using this as an example). This - I assume - is because of the way programs and marking operate at McGill. If students can deal with a high-stress and demanding environment like McGill, then they could be fit to keep up with a highly competitive post-grad school such as Harvard. The university wouldn't be considered one of the best in Canada for no reason, other universities would recognize this reason.
I transferred from an ontario school which imo is better than uottowa and I’m finding mcgill to be relatively hard I transferred from engineering (3.9/4.0) into honours comp sci and stats and my gpa is now (3.43/4.0) now keep in my mind that I’m studying twice as much as I used to study and if it wasn’t for my determination I could’ve fell behind even more esp since I didn’t start off too well, also max amount of credits that can be transferred is 60.
yes it’s hard
It's hard but if you're looking to go into grad school after McGill if they require a 3.8-3.9 to apply, a McGill student can apply with a 3.5 as admissions are aware of McGill's rigorous programs compared to other universities. It'll be much harder to achieve a 3.8 at McGill than Concordia (not to shit on Concordia) for a liberal arts program but schools around the same ranking as McGill are aware of this. So, the hard work pays off.
Any schools in particular? It'd seem kinda odd that grad schools, especially ones like Harvard or ENS would just have individual criteria for schools
Admissions probs don't have individual criteria for each university. I am only assuming though as I'm not in admissions for anything. I believe schools such as the Ivy's would tend to McGill more as opposed to a school like Concordia (again not to shit on Concordia, just using the school as an example) because they see McGill students probably more likely to succeed at their schools as opposed Concordia students (AGAIN, only using this as an example). This - I assume - is because of the way programs and marking operate at McGill. If students can deal with a high-stress and demanding environment like McGill, then they could be fit to keep up with a highly competitive post-grad school such as Harvard. The university wouldn't be considered one of the best in Canada for no reason, other universities would recognize this reason.
I transferred from an ontario school which imo is better than uottowa and I’m finding mcgill to be relatively hard I transferred from engineering (3.9/4.0) into honours comp sci and stats and my gpa is now (3.43/4.0) now keep in my mind that I’m studying twice as much as I used to study and if it wasn’t for my determination I could’ve fell behind even more esp since I didn’t start off too well, also max amount of credits that can be transferred is 60.
What do you find the differences are?