Students with deficiencies in these areas are required to devote part of their program to removing them. Foreign students are normally admitted to full graduate status, but may be required to take certain specific courses in order to rectify deficiencies in background, either as part of or in addition to their regular graduate program. From a Canadian General B.A. or Equivalent Program. Students admitted with the three-year Canadian general B.A. degree or its equivalent will be enrolled either as transitional or as qualifying students. A transitional student is admitted directly into the M.A. program and is eligible for financial assistance.
Transitional status is granted only in cases of exceptional merit.
A qualifying student is admitted to graduate status but not to a degree program. The qualifying year is a year of work approximately equivalent to the fourth year of an honours program. Students who do well during that year will then be admitted to full degree status. From Other Graduate Programs. Those applying with such degrees should submit theses or other major research papers to the Department as soon as convenient, to assist in placing them in the Waterloo program.