<p>is it true? I’m talking about Canadians if it matters</p>
<p>That’s a really vague question. Define “your level”.</p>
<p>Two remarks:</p>
<p>You forgot the part about financial aid, and you should know by now that Canadians are treated differently from other international applicants. (Just look at the number of Canadian applicants/students vs the number of other international applicants/students.)</p>
<p>No. Unless you need financial aid or are canadian you can probably get in to a school above your level. Oh and if your from an underrepresented international country like Azerbaijan you will have a good chance. But if your from S Korea or China or any other asian country that sends a significant number of people to American universities I wouldn’t count on any better of a chance.</p>
<p>B@r!um : differently? im canadian too and so like to know how so? 
are canadians considered almost like us citizens
i know that some provide need-blind to all north americans but other than that how are canadians treated differently</p>
<p>They don’t treat you as internationals. Basically you lose all of the benefits of being an international and don’t gain any of the benefits of a national.</p>
<p>which means…</p>
<p>yea,</p>
<p>I’m Canadian too and i want to know…</p>
<p>
That’s basically the extend to which Canadians have privileges. Isn’t that enough?</p>
<p>The question is quite blurry. (In the sense, it is not complete)
But as for now, the answer, IMO, is false.</p>
<p>The answer is yes for people who need financial aid at schools that are not need blind which means most. In this situation it would work like merit aid where you will only get aid from schools where your stats are at the top of the pool.</p>
<p>And, frankly, in this economy, just about everyone is going to have to settle for a school that is “below” their level, because they are going to settle for the place they can pay for. Which means that there will be plenty of other folks as “smart” as you (not to mention a whole lot who are even “smarter”) wherever you end up.</p>
<p>im a canadian international in the states, applying this year. i think what it means to be an international canadian is that some schools treat you as if you were a us citizen and judge your application on a need-blind base, like UPenn, but otherwise, we’re just a bunch of foreigners who probably won’t get any aid, or really accepted anywhere…</p>
<p>lol
that was really optimistic…</p>