<p>My family and I don't want to give up our Chinese citizenship, so umm, even though we've been here for 9 years now, we still haven't gotten Canadian citizenship.
I emailed Brown a couple of weeks ago about their FA policy, and they said that I should do whatever is required of Canadian students as long as my parents pay taxes.
Do you guys know if this is the same with all the other unis?</p>
<p>I have no clue, but some Ivys need blind for Canadians. I would think that this refers to Canadian citizenship. So, if you don’t have Canadian citizenship, then I’d find out if you’d be considered in the need blind process or not. If you are not, then to have a good chance, you’d need to not apply for FA, which would suck a$$.</p>
<p>yep, that’s what i was thinking too…but brown’s answer kinda made me hope that by canadian, they just meant paying canadian taxes.
i mean, pr status in canada is basically the same as citizenship, the only dif would be that we can’t vote…whereas in the states, pr and green card are pretty dif, right?</p>
<p>pr and green card in US should be pretty similar. I mean a lot of schools say “Permanent residents or citizens”. PR means that you do intend to get citizenship/are in the process of, so uni’s in the states should, and i think all do, recognize them as equivalent (for admissions at least).</p>
<p>And Brown isn’t need blind to Canadians (wait, is this an idiom? is it need blind to or need blind for?). So, i don’t think it would even matter in the end for brown.</p>
<p>Brown will take your financial aid status when making your decision even if you’re Canadian…It’s only need blind to Americans.</p>
<p>IIRC, Columbia and Penn do not consider landed immigrants as Canadian citizens. You’ll be treated as a non-Canadian and will not be considered under their need-blind system…The other ivies are need-blind to everyone.</p>
<p>yea i know that brown isn’t need-blind, it’s just that canadians have to complete a profile thingy that US students complete too. i’m not sure why.</p>
<p>^oh shoooooot, columbiaaaaa T-T aww man, i don’t wanna lose my chinese citizenshipppp, but then columbia’s nice too. - -|||</p>
<p>wait, idk about Cornell though…are they need blind to Canadians (this is really bugging me…is this idiomatically correct?..need blind towards vs need blind to vs need blind for…which is right?)</p>
<p>eDIT: i didn’t know you lose your chinese citizenship when you get your canadian citizenship…thought you kept both…confused right now</p>
<p>nope that’s just china, they don’t do dual-citizenship, and once you are “not chinese”, you’re never gonna be “chinese” again…= =
canada doesn’t care one way or another. xD</p>
<p>and the idiom thing, iunno either…my grammar is kinda sad, so i have no idea…= =</p>
<p>oh, and i dont want cornell anyways…(not that ill get in if i applied, but you know what i mean. xD)</p>
<p>^yea lol, but i wanna apply to cornell…gotta find out if they’re need blind. then i gotta focus on nailing this SAT…pretty stressed</p>
<p>good luck!
wait you’re applying this year too right? so we’re going to be in the same “class”.
=D</p>
<p>Does Canada not allow dual citizenship anymore? Or am I missing something?</p>
<p>^not sure…i’m pretty sure im still an indian citizen still as well as a canadian citizen, but i don’t know.</p>
<p>and hinderpanda, yea, im applying next year…so i’ll be class of 2015.</p>
<p>China doesn’t recognize dual citizenships. Canada does.</p>
<p>^ yep. sorry for not being clear.
it’s just that once you lose your chinese citizenship, they won’t ever give it back to you unless you win the nobel prize or something…><</p>
<p>^ah that sucks. well, really, the Canadian citizenship would only do:
a) apply to a couple more schools that are need blind
b) maybe less competition? not sure, but wouldn’t you be competing against other CHinese people since you aren’t a citizen of Canada? correct me if i’m wrong. (fewer Canadian applicants to top schools…i think)</p>
<p>also, this may be wrong as well, but I would think more Chinese people apply to Ivys than Canadians…maybe? But, I would think Canadian applicants are more well rounded, so in that sense, if you are considered in the same pool as Chinese people, if you are really well rounded you may stand out. not in any way is this stereotypical, etc. hope this doesn;t sound offensive to anyone…</p>
<p>EDITl or does it even matter? is international the same thing regardless of where you’re from? i’d think that getting into a top school as an Asian applicant is harder…like India, China, Korea, Pakistan, etc. etc., have lots of applicants…and i’d assume they only want so many from each country.</p>
<p>All internationals are considered under the same pool. Canadians may be given preference as we have a similar school system (hence the higher percentage of internationals being Canadians).</p>
<p>^ T0T
omggg
i wanna stay “chinese”, but columbia’s needblindedness to canadians is swayinggg me T-T</p>