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Hey guys,

 I heard that professional school of a certain institution does not have a preference for students who went to undergrad in that institution, is this true? As an example, if I am currently enrolled as an undergrad at Mcmaster. Will I have an equal chance against everybody else, despite of where they acquired the bachelors?

 I heard that schools outside Ontario DOES differentiate.. Anybody know why as to why such discrepancy exists?

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no one cares where you went to university, some provinces do have an in province bias for students who are from the province itself. for instance if you are from AB (lived here for a certain number of years) that is the only thing they care about to determine if you are an IP (In province applicant) not which university in AB you went to. Provinces have these in providence biases (slightly lower admission requirements) because they want to make sure that the medical students who graduated from that province stay in that province to work as that would be beneficial to the citizens of that provience as medical education is highly subsidized by the provincial government. For instance, they don't want the entire Manitoba class to be made up of people from Ontario as they most likely will want to leave back to Ontario after they finish their medical degree. Manitobans are more likely to stay and serve people from Manitoba after they finish their degree than to leave. Ontario does have an IP bias to an extent (McMaster has an OOP quota to get an interview (10%), Western has SWOMEN bias, Ottawa has Ottawa region bias I think, NOSM has a bias for people from Northern Ontario/Rural, Toronto does not care, Queens does not care)

Oh wow. I see- Thank you for the thorough input!! 

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