Highly recommend applying to McGill

Overall, I was really satisfied with my college experience. It was some of the best years of my life and expose me to some of the best friends I’ve ever made. It also jumped me onto a path of life long learning, which was very valuable.

It was a very nice program with a variety of courses and offered exposure into broad bases in human biology. They were actively making changes to the curriculum and finding new ways to improve the coursework. In terms of research the program was heavily designed to be research focused and allowed multiple support for research opportunities and students with novel ideas or looking to join labs.

Faculty was esteemed and within the faculty of medicine. McGill is comparatively a smaller university compared to other universities in Canada, and so classes tended to be more intimate, which allowed students to interact with professors in a more meaningful way. I found all staff to be very impressive and intelligent. I also found professors to be welcoming when it came to their office hours and to answer questions and to support students with their goals or their ideas. Specifically professors, Dr. Ken Ragan and Dr. Mandato were notably close to me.

There was a lot of opportunities on campus that were engaging and made campus. Feel very homely. There was always events going on, and students had multiple opportunities to be active or to participate in a number of different events. Any type of extracurricular activity that you would’ve had interest, and you would have an opportunity to participate in, and there was never any barriers to participate. SSMU or the student society was very well organized and the spaces for student clubs and events was central which allowed exposure to almost all students about all kinds of things that were going on. From academic clubs to sports to recreation in terms of dance, and other hobbies, like theatre were vibrant and active. There were a lot of set clubs who’s focus were to help students with career growth and research opportunities. And shared spaces such as libraries or teaming with students, and most bulletin boards recovered with information on upcoming opportunities for all kinds of things. All areas had access to Wi-Fi and the gym facilities were busy but had everything you could hope for from a university gym.

There are a lot of research opportunities available through the University. As for post study placement programs, it would depend on your field of study, but they tend to be more available for engineering or business students. Major companies take a lot of students from our graduate pool and they offer a number of students with intern programs or entry-level opportunities. Most of our students are able to find placement with good companies good jobs And good placement overall. Salaries will depend on field of study as well but overall McGill graduates would have an opportunity to be offered the higher range of entry level salaries.

I do not live on McGill dormitory facilities, but there were a lot of private student dorm residences and I did live in one of those. Companies such as campus one and Evo are some residence providers that had accommodations only for students which allowed you to have that exposure and that experience to living with students, but having the luxury of having a new clean facility and space for yourself that was similar to an apartment. Those were on the more expensive side, but there were options to share with roommates, or to live in group shared spaces, which would have brought your cost down for a single room, or a single board by quite a bit. For an equivalent experience to the private residences if you were to gather that with university, it would’ve cost a lot more mostly due to lack of supply. On average, they were the rentals at that time which must’ve gone up now we’re about two grand.

Ave 97% scoring average; some A levels or AP credits of 4/5 on exam or IB credits. Only transcripts and exam scores were submitted. Letters of reference were not requested. No interviews, applications are based off score merits alone and no written responses.

$32000 CAD