<p>Most of what is written is wrong. In graduate admissions process your application will be evaluated against Americans, not students from Canada. </p>
<p>A lot of the reason its more difficult for international students to study in the U.S is not just the U.S, but difficulties associated with evaluating their application. Generally recommendation letters of graduates from international schools are not as credible, because their researchers are not well known. So raw measures like rank of the applicant and the reputation of their university become criteria. That isn’t true of OP.</p>
<p>There generally isn’t funding differences for American v.s. foreign students. There are usually funding differences for instate v.s. out of state students. The thing peach so is talking about is probably specific to health sciences. Most hard sciences, applied sciences, social sciences are dominated by international students.</p>