Ashley had already paid her registration fees and booked her flight from Punjab, India to Toronto when she found out just over a week ago that she was no longer accepted to Ontario’s Northern College.
“It was very heartbreaking for me. It was a huge impact on my lifestyle,” Ashley, who doesn’t have a last name, told CBC Toronto.
Ashley received her acceptance letter in February to study health care administration at Scarborough’s Pures College of Technology, which is an affiliate of Northern College. She applied for a student visa, quit her job in health care, found a place to live in the GTA,