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Arts
BA
McGill’s published cut-off, Sept 2025 entry1
min 90typical 93
no safe grade published
confidence: official
McGill’s cut-off, by year
McGill’s cut-off is the lowest average it admitted. It is an absolute minimum, not a target. Aim well above it. Cooking means at least 3 points above the 2025 cut-off — the biggest one-year rise McGill’s own table shows.
Required courses
ENG4U
What each rating means here
- cooking (definitely getting in)
- Your average clears the latest cut-off by at least as much as this university's cut-offs have ever risen in a single year.
- slightly cooked (borderline)
- Your average clears the latest cut-off, but by less than this university's cut-offs have risen in a single year, so a rise like that would put you below it.
- cooked (not getting in)
- Your average is below the latest cut-off, the lowest average admitted that year.
Programs like this, hardest first
- mcgill/arts ← this program
- mcgill/arts-science
- mcmaster/humanities-1
- queens/arts
- toronto/economics
- toronto/social-sciences
- western/social-science
- mcmaster/arts-science
- carleton/journalism
- carleton/journalism-health-sciences
- carleton/public-affairs-policy-management
- guelph/arts
- guelph/psychology
- mcmaster/social-sciences-1
- ottawa/criminology
- ottawa/economics
- ottawa/psychology-ba
- ottawa/social-sciences
- ottawa/sociology
- toronto/humanities
- western/mit
- tmu/journalism
- queens/economics
- western/psychology
- brock/arts
- guelph/arts-economics
- guelph/criminal-justice-public-policy
- guelph/international-development-studies
- york/liberal-arts
Sources
Every number above comes from one of these. We quote the sentence we read it from, and when we read it.
- [1] web.archive.org/web/20260211211438/https://www.mcgill.ca/undergraduate-admissions/apply/requirements/ontario — McGill University, Undergraduate Admissions (via the Internet Archive): “Listed below are the lowest grades used for admission for September 2025.” (read 2026-09-27)
- [2] web.archive.org/web/20250826071754/https://www.mcgill.ca/undergraduate-admissions/apply/requirements/ontario — McGill University, Undergraduate Admissions (via the Internet Archive): “Minimum grades over the last three years” (read 2026-09-27)
- [3] web.archive.org/web/20210305193922/https://www.mcgill.ca/undergraduate-admissions/apply/requirements/ontario — McGill University, Undergraduate Admissions (via the Internet Archive): “86.8% overall 85% in the prerequisite English or French course” (read 2026-09-27)