As a Canadian domestic student with a U.S. diploma, do I apply for a Canadian university based on provincial or international requirements? I spent my first two years of High school in Canada, then last two years of High school in the United States. My answers are all mixed on quora and many are saying you apply based on the last province you were in while many other say to take a sat and fulfill AP requirements. Can someone please give me a straight-forward answer, I am super confused and really don’t want to take SAT?
Sigh. Why are you mucking about on Quora when the universities tell you directly what they want? For example, UT:
Ditto for McGill, McMaster, UBC, etc: it’s not about your citizenship or where you started secondary school, it’s what credentials you are applying with- which for you is US High School. It’s really not complicated- it looks more like you just don’t like the answer.
Why don’t you want to sit the SAT or ACT? You have already graduated? How did you not sit the tests at all?
If the Canadian university requires SAT/ACT for American applicants then you must take and submit those scores.
For application requirements, you will follow the USA requirements for the program you want to apply to (which will require ACT or SAT and possibly more standardized tests).
To find out which application form you fill out, follow the instructions for a Canadian citizen living abroad. For example, for Ontario universities, that would be the OUAC 105D form.
To find out where to get financial aid from the provinces, you follow the instructions for the last province you lived in.
Taking the SAT is really not all that bad. A little bit of preparation would be helpful. We found SAT preparation courses both at our local high schools and also at the local community center.
I would be inclined to ask admissions at some universities that you are interested in, for example perhaps from the last province that you lived in. We found admissions to be quite helpful at a range of universities in Canada.
My daughters both applied to some universities in Canada as dual citizens who had gone to high school in the US. They submitted all of the information that was required for US high school graduates. For the large well known schools this included the SAT. For small schools (Bishop’s, Mount Allison, Acadia, St Francis Xavier) the SAT was optional, except for Acadia which will not consider it at all. Generally the process was quite straightforward. They did not apply anywhere west of Quebec but this was mostly just due to geographic proximity.