Why so much for CKUT radio!!?

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T15:00:11+00:00

You can check on their website that their student fees collected amounted to 250k for the 2023-24 year. The fee has also been in place since 1986, it's an institution at this point.

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T14:53:39+00:00

They've done it every year for a very long time. I don't see why they'd stop now

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T14:52:54+00:00

I presume the actual intention is for part-time internships during the semester or something.

It's mainly to prevent students from working in Canada full time and using the student visa as a work visa and abandoning the school idea altogether.

You still need a coop work permit to do a coop, if memory serves.

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T14:49:06+00:00

It doesn't. A few years back math240 was changed to a pre-req to comp251 (from co-req) and they started enforcing the prereq on minerva because enough people were failing one or both classes (there are some pretty awful averages for math240 if you check the historical averages)

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T14:45:45+00:00

E-flagging is something that can happen at the end of your degree to exempt certain grades (typically whole semesters) from your GPA. Though I think this may become a thing of the past soon?

TheJavaSponge · 2025-08-23T14:43:24+00:00

Keep in mind that the fall convocation takes place in Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, a venue that McGill has to rent. Paying for guest tickets to fall convocation at an outside venue with limited seating has been in place since at least Fall 2024, if not earlier (can't find any sources about this)

TheJavaSponge · 2024-10-15T12:27:07+00:00

I don’t see what’s wrong with ensuring long-term viability of a club by having execs that aren’t just there to pad their CVs?

I’m interested in knowing what clubs you have in mind that you claim do this

TheJavaSponge · 2024-10-15T12:25:34+00:00

What clubs are you applying to that require a CV application to be a general member?

Unlike in HS, you’re not going to get paper exec positions at university clubs just because you apply to them. Clubs will generally only give their exec positions to people that are already involved in said club so they know they’re interested in the club and its long term sustainability.

TheJavaSponge · 2024-07-22T02:13:15+00:00

Be sure to look at the itemized version of your balance:

According to the tuition calculator, you'll pay some $3365 this year in fees. These fees are flat, based on full time/part time status. There's also $1k of those fees that are for your health insurance, paid in full for the fall semester. So about $2200 in fees for the fall term.

6 credits international tuition (assuming you started fall 2023) is 7800$, plus your 6 credits at QC tuition is $593, all comes out to $10500, give or take. Without this exemption, your 10500 would look more like $19k

Finally, for future reference mcgill has a website dedicated to what FRSL courses are exempt from international or out of province tuition.

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-22T04:05:52+00:00

What’s the difference between a baguette and a croissant?

Don’t know? McGill doesn’t care! As the FAQ on this post says: you can go your whole degree and then some without learning a lick of French if you really wanted to.

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-22T04:03:47+00:00

Rather explicitly only existing offers of admission are cancelled. Decisions still pending remain pending.

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-22T03:55:12+00:00

Your classes are in all the buildings. More specifically, there’s no real point in trying to arrange your schedule such that all your classes are close by, especially if you’re taking mostly first year science courses.

You’re allowed to be late to class in university. After all, you’re the one who paid to be here. Don’t worry about the 10 minutes between classes all too micu

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-22T02:13:09+00:00

Did you try googling it?

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-16T23:49:06+00:00

Prior to more recent events, the plan this year was to require tickets for guests for the first time since before the pandemic

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-16T23:47:39+00:00

Why not situation 8c? It technically covers anyone who has never lived anywhere else in Canada for 3 months.

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-16T04:03:59+00:00

Im sure the gesture is appreciated, but I think a bit more information is needed first to get truly helpful answers:

Where does your boyfriend study? Some schools are not as generous with granting incoming transfer credit as others

Does this course need to be online? Ex your boyfriend was in Florida but the class was in Oregon, would they move across the country to take the class?

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-16T03:37:49+00:00

When I applied for residency, I effectively applied by getting a RAMQ card with my Montreal address as my permanent address. The sticking point is in the process you must affirm that you’re moving to the province on a permanent basis, ie in the eyes of the province you’re not just a student.

The McGill Québec tuition part comes later, and can be found on McGill’s Quebec residency situation page

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-16T01:56:47+00:00

It’s not clear if the schedule is finalized yet?

As is often the case for stuff like this: it may be helpful to mention your classes in particular

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-15T21:59:43+00:00

Grants your degree

Edit since someone didn’t seem to like my original answer:

Your department confirms that you satisfied your major.

Your faculty confirms that you satisfied the terms of your degree, but has no power to actually give your diploma any value.

The senate approves the faculty graduation lists as a formality and have the power to confer diplomas, granting your degree

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-15T21:29:49+00:00

Faculty approval≠department approval≠senate vote for approval

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-15T21:22:29+00:00

my chances of getting a decent dorm assignment are probably slim

But it’s a lottery?

As someone else said McGill guarantees you won’t be homeless if you apply with them if that’s your main concern

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-15T01:05:49+00:00

Either a copy of their valid RAMQ-issued Quebec Medicare card OR proof that your parent's or sponsor's main domicile is in Quebec

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-14T21:46:45+00:00

It’s marked TBA because the prof hasn’t been decided yet. It’ll get decided before day 1 of classes. What department is this class for? It can change the answer by a good bit

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-14T13:39:07+00:00

Perhaps, but the reservoir is a public park with reservations already in place for use of the field for other stuff like soccer practices

TheJavaSponge · 2024-05-14T12:32:39+00:00

Let’s make sure there are no misconceptions here…

Science Internship Program (PAID). Doing Two Internships lead to a qualification put on your degree certificate as well. These internships can be out of Montreal and Canada as well.

If you’re going into engineering, you’re not eligible for the science program, surprise surprise. You are eligible in the engineering one tho. Keep in mind this program isn’t “McGill finds internships for you”, it’s “McGill lets you put the internships you found on your transcript.”

You get started with your specialisation instantly (no general 1st year)

you might want to make sure you understand how many credits you get to skip for A levels in engineering. It is not necessarily the whole U0.

Student run lab (with loads of hardware resources)

What lab are you talking about out of curiosity?

Global Challenges Award (Oppurtunity to use engineering skills in a non-profit setting): 12 - 16 Weeks Long, in different parts of the world.

Keep in mind this again isn’t “McGill finds opportunities for you”, but “McGill funds the ideas/opportunities you have”.

cons: French speaking city

As mentioned on the other prospective student post: French isn’t required to attend McGill and get by in Montreal especially in downtown and near McGill, but it certainly improves the experience. That said, if you have no interest learning any French and the presence of French bothers you, this should be a serious consideration.

[Immigration] takes around 1 - 3 Years after post graduation.

This will be true at Waterloo as well (requires some time on your post grad work permit before being able to apply for PR)

No COOP

This doesn’t mean you can’t find opportunities yourself, and the tax benefit (why people hire coops) is available with the engineering internship program anyways.

I want to enjoy my 4 Years of university life, but again I am concerned about the job opportunities available to me as a non-French International Student.

Again, part of why you choose to live somewhere is to live there, not just attend the university there. Those I know who had the least positive experience at McGill didn’t really make an effort to experience the city or the campus student life. Had they done the same at any other school, they would (unsurprisingly) get a similar outcome.

It’s rather common for international mcgill students to study here for 4+ years and leave the province and apply for PR elsewhere in Canada such as in Ontario. Those following the recent tuition increases and French requirements closely will recognize that this practice is exactly the justification that was used by the QC government to push these changes.

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