Whats the deal with getting a creative writing MFA from an American school, as a Canadian?
Hi, skwt. I’m also a Canadian in Toronto and I went to Brooklyn College for an MFA program (not writing). If you are admitted to an American school, you get a student visa pretty much automatically (assuming there’s nothing that would bar you from entering the country altogether). A student visa does not allow you to work off-campus and you have to show that you have financial resources to last for the school year. There are different types of student visa, which I don’t know much about (I had the advantage of being married to a citizen) so perhaps there’s some option I don’t know about that will work for you. You should talk to the school(s) foreign students office for details. When I went (in 95), I could apply via OSAP for Canada Student Loans, but study outside Canada did not qualify for Ontario Student Loans. At the time (I don’t know if this is still the case) if you got over a certain amount in OSL, the amount over that threshold was forgiven — but the number that was measured
