<p>I am an american student wanting a fresh start. I was hoping to attend a canadian university, apply to an allied health program with the intention of earning a BA and applying for permanent residency. I cannot transfer my extensive academic, and mostly negative history. Hence, I will start as a freshman. I will not state my past academic attendance, degree conferred.
From my understanding there is no Canadian equivalent to the National Student Clearinghouse, that tracks all academic history for a fee and sells it to universities? Furthermore, is it a policy of Canadian licensing agencies to demand credit report history in the hopes of uncovering past academic history.</p>
<p>I'm looking for the feasibility of this solution. I am much older than you, have been abused and scammed by higher academia, and do not need further Victorian sterness from the peanut gallery. I need a career so I can responsibly support a family. I feel I have to leave the country for this due to the Clearinghouse and my loan history (all paid) with the U.S. federal government.</p>
<p>Canadian universities also receive information from National Student Clearinghouse.</p>
<p>Bah, you’ll get your dose of Victorian sternness from this whippersnapper anyway. Responsibility is owning up to past mistakes and showing how you’ve learned from them. Academic dishonesty isn’t the best way to start fresh, and is probably one of the more irresponsible things you could do. I almost missed out on graduating on time (or at all) because my university wanted a transcript for an online course I took elsewhere (and had told them about), in case I was attending the other school as an excuse to mess up there and come back scot-free. I can’t imagine the repercussions for what you’re proposing, should you be found out.</p>
<p>Why would you want to start out in a new country by completely jeopardizing your academic future before you’ve even begun? Just start out (honestly) at a community college, where it’s cheaper, and transfer after. Done. No risk, and you graduate in roughly the same amount of time, with less cost. Plus, if you start at year one anyway, there’ll be more time between you and your bad grades, so master’s programs will be within reach, if you want them. I know it seems like a challenge to “cheat” the system you’ve been screwed over by, but the only one who could be hurt by it is you (and your potential future family). You really don’t have much to gain, so much as you do to lose, with your proposed idea.</p>
<p>From my understanding the clearinghouse has only a few relationships with Canadian universities and it is for loan reporting only. I can’t imagine the clearinghouse’s federal loan program would be popular additions to canadian students and their universities.
Bah, I’ve already contacted hundreds of admissions people and their B.S. facade says I wont be admitted. I’m having trouble even with undergrad programs, much less graduates. It’s not a fair system. It’s worse than the legal system. </p>
<p>I’m looking for practical, constructive comments.</p>
<p>Bad grades aren’t the problem. At the graduate level you can be academically dismissed with a B- average.</p>
<p>can you specify the business relationship the clearinghouse holds in Canada. As of 2010 only a handful of schools did and it was for the basic contract of schools reporting information (I assume of U.S. students seeking U.S. federal loans) in exchange for the clearinghouse doing the loan paper work.</p>
<p>feel free to contact me by messaging if you prefer.</p>