Apply to Canadian schools?

[brianmartin]

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I'm currently a dual US/Canadian citizen, because both my parents are Canadian. However, I now live in the states and have not actually lived in Canada for many years.

Would I be considered a "Canadian" in the applications process? As in, would they discriminate against me because I'm not actually living in Canada? Or would I even have to tell them that?

 

[umza]

where did you complete high school?

 

[MeowMix]

I was in the same position: dual citizen, lived in the US for past many yrs.

All schools that I looked at consider us to be Canadian applicants. Some will consider you to be in-province and local; others in-province, not local; others classify you as out-of-province.

Of the schools that do accept US citizens, e.g. McGill says specifically that you MUST tell them if you are also a Canadian citizen (i.e. you cannot slide in under their US student quota).

I don't know whether we get discriminated against if we're living outside Canada, but it is already very hard to get into Canadian schools, and your chances are much better in the US. I found that there were many things about the Canadian app process that I really had no clue about (found it out AFTER the fact), like exactly how difficult it is to get into McMaster, for example, and that really I had almost no chance with a 3.5 GPA; I would have been much better off with more background info. Also, the Can schools are very discriminatory about any kind of part-time course work that you want to count towards prereqs or GPA. This is particularly difficult for the non-trad student.