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Germany. It's really hard to get good grades in the state examinations though. I feel like I would have achieved much higher grades if I had done a bachelor in health sciences (there, all of the marks count, not just three big tests). Do they take into consideration that it is harder to achieve high marks in certain degrees than in others? I just found a thread with stats about application numbers and intakes of internationals and sometimes there were 200 international applicants and only 7-15 internationals accepted :0 Apparently, I also have to take an additional class because I didn't have a pure statistics class included in my studies (only one called epidemiology, medical biometry and IT, but I don't know if that counts). Thinking about taking an online one at Athabasca university or the Summer class at the University of Ottawa which will be online due to Covid. Could you share your stats and experiences, please? Are you a domestic or international applicant?

Hi, I intend to apply for a MPH in Canada. I am an international medical student and working on my thesis at the moment (in cardiology), so I do possess experience in research, I even presented a poster at a meeting of the national cardiologic society. However, we don't have something like GPA in my home country. For medicine, we only have three state examinations after years 2,5 and 6 which make up the final grade. We do get graded from years 3-5 on course work but that doesn't count towards the final grade, however I have a transcript with these marks. I did well on the first state examination, not so well on the second and still have to pass the third one and I had really good marks during the courses. I wonder whether Canadian universities will take the final grade or the grades of the last two years of course work? Do you think I should contact the faculties directly and ask them? Our university system is not like the Canadian one at all. I also don't know whom to ask for the second reference. I am going to ask the supervisor of my thesis for the first one but I don't know any professors well enough to ask for the second one. Apart from working in the hospital, I don't have experience volunteering in the public health field. I am going to look for opportunities to do so. In general, I plan to apply to universities where lower GPAs are accepted (due to my not so good mark in the second state examination). Do you know if the international students who are accepted normally have Canadian undergraduate degrees? I feel like the chance of getting accepted as an international student is already lower than a domestic applicant's one and if you look at student profiles at Queens or Guelph, the internationals who did get in normally have undergraduate degrees from Canadian universities. I still hope that I have a chance though, I don't know about many students with MD degrees applying.