Do not consider the Cégep programs if you want to enter pharmacy. What it really is really is just that here in Québec we only do 11 years (from elementery school to high school) compare to 12 in the rest of Canada and we have one year less of university. Those lost year we do them in Cégep.
As you are coming from USA, you will need to "catch up" on Québec students. That is why they will make you do a "transition year". It is call a Bacc 120 at Université de Montréal or a U0 at McGill.
Really is just a year where you do the class we did in Cégep. As all the foreign student do that transition year. For the fees, here in Québec we pay extra low rates.
For example, a whole university year cost around 3 000$. For people from other provinces, it is the double (around 6 000$) which is about what it would cost them in their province of residence anyway as Québec as the lowest rates. For an international student, it goes around 16 000$ per year.
Their is the page for foreign student from Université de Montréal website : http://www.futursetudiants.umontreal.ca/... Their is no Pharmacy at Bishop neither at Concordia. Your only pics in Québec would be Université de Montréal, Université Laval (it is locate around Québec city, as a great reputation and is in french) or McGill (in english). Mcgill though is known to be super hard to enter in for is medicine programs because it is known to be the best university for medicine faculty in Canada.
It actually rate among the 15 best university in the world for the past 2 years... Finally for your question about the grades it take to enter pharmacy, usually they are pretty high. It is hard to give you a idea because the university's grid are usually made in function of the way Québec students are grade in Cégep which is different from USA and Canada. Most people have a Cote R between 15 and 36.
Average marks will give you a cote R of about 20-26. For medicine, the last person to be accept had a cote R of 33.8 For pharmacy it was 33.5 Other way to see it, among the people who where not coming from Cégep, 953 peoples applied and their was 111 places available. http://www.etudes.umontreal.ca/programme... Fro the language question, you could easily live in Montréal with speaking no french even though I would strongly recommend you to come here with the mind open to learning it.
If you do apply to a University that is french (like UdeM), all the class will be given in french, all the exam and all the paper will have to be submit in french. But if you want to be able to keep up on the class, you will have to have some bases. Let me finish by telling that if you do get accept in a university in Québec, mostly in Montréal, you will never regret your choice.
I went to Université de Montréal 3 years I am now at McGill and I met plenty of student from all around Canada, USA and France. Most of those at McGill where speaking no french at all as they are mostly from Calgary and Vancouver and they are learning really fast and they all enjoy the opportunity to learn a second language.
Contact the admissions office and apply. They will guide you through the process. After you have been accepted by the school, you need to apply for a student visa.
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