text: So you are looking for a university on Yelp My my how can I know what you are looking for Do you seek knowledge about the student life the academic standards the buildings or the crowdnnWell let me beginnnI had the honour of studying and graduating from McGill with a Masters This university seems to have a policy of snapping the best professors from all over the world I kid you not the genius density at McGill is off the chartsnnYour professors will as a standard be quite demanding and expect you to rise to their challenge Considering the high admission standard universitywide you should be more than a match for whatever they throw at younnUseful tip if you graduate from their law school you should be immediately eligible for admission to both the CanadaQuebec and New York State Bars Apparently only York uni can boast the same privilegennI have to take care in maintaining fairness while making this criticism being such an enormous and multidisciplinary university combined with a wide range of activity focuses beyond the academic McGills bureaucracy can be bothersome to deal with For your own benefit please assume that the right hand will not know what the left is doing Your departmental policies may not match the universitys official and sometimes obscure regulations There may be small print that has not made it into the tons of handbooks you are showered with nnI cannot emphasize this enough take control of your degrees admin Ask which courses exactly are needed and whether everything you have done are doing and plan to do is kosher with the uni Having obtained such answer ask again later For added surety phone the relevant Dean in the central offices Do itn nSo you are in and moved to Montreal Your international tuition compared to US fees is laughable Costs of living in Montreal amaze you for their awesomeness The drinking age is Time to make some friendsnnWell undergrads are normally welcomed hotly by the city sweltering August heat and the students association guzzling beers during Frosh During the year they can join a swathe of student societies ranging from cultural to athletics via politics and pure outlandishnessnnIf you are not from Montreal proper you may feel like an international student The McGill International Students Network is at your service wherever you hail from They organize tons of meetandgreet events in the first weeks of term so you can begin establishing networks outside of your departmentnnThe Student Society building is a spacious but unsightly dwelling for undergrads looking for a hangout You are treated to an array of function rooms and commercial catering outlets MehnnGraduate students on the other hand possess their own separate society and their own Grad Club Thomson House It is a classy members club arranged on four floors with a great and cheap restaurant in the basement a bar and several lounges on the ground floor and a massive ballroom on the first If you are an undergrad befriend a grad student and enjoy Thomson House hospitality and great beer selectionnnLocationwise it could not be better The city has a ridiculously low cost of living and rent Ghetto excluded is really great Electricity is at its cheapest in North America and many apartments come with this included in the rent If you know your farmers markets grocery shopping is a breeze nnSo overall McGill combines the best of most worlds It is an Anglophone university in the most European city this side of the Atlantic Everything is within walking distance including some of the worlds best nightlife The high proportion of international students makes McGill an eyeopening experience for many while its academic and teaching standards are amongst the highest in the worldnnWell my suggestion is to come here and have a blast