Choosing the university you want to attend as an undergraduate student can be a very long and difficult process — international students, such as myself, face a much longer process.
We have a lot more requirements to fill in comparison to domestic students. First and foremost, we have to worry about our home countries’ education systems being structured differently than the Canadian system, subsequently requiring us to take the appropriate courses to be eligible to apply to universities abroad. In some cases, we aren’t aware of these many unspoken requirements until we are in our upper years and it is ultimately too late. Quite frankly, the university does not do a good job in communicating any of this to international students, many of whom have language barriers to overcome on top of navigating a website that is already frustrating in English.