US undergrads -> impossible to go to Canada?

Pre-Med & Medical School Foreign Medical Education
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<p>Is it true that once you had an undergraduate degree in the US it is virtually impossible to go back to Canada for medical (or graduate) school?</p>

<p>My dad's friend told him that a friend of his had a daughter who had a 4.0 gpa at John Hapkins University (majored in biology) undergraduate and was rejected by both McGill and Toronto's medical schools. (She's a Canadian, by the way.) This seems impossible I know but this is what my dad was told. The girl eventually ended up in UPenn med (which is also great,) but I just want to know if such thing is true?</p>

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<p>1.) I can't answer your question, but...</p>

<p>2.) If the answer to your question is "No, it's possible," then the question becomes, "So what about this girl?"</p>

<p>The answers are multiplefold, but the most likely one is overqualification. McGill might well have looked at this girl and felt that she was going to:
(a) Get into a school like Penn
(b) Go to that school</p>

<p>And so McGill didn't want to waste their time and yield rate on this girl.</p>

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<p>well...she wanted badly to go back to Canada is what I heard</p>

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<p>Yeah, but they might not have known that.</p>

<p>This is one of the reasons it's v. important to express interest in medical schools while you are applying.</p>