How does a student from a non-target school break in?

I'm a first year student from McMaster University and I know that McMaster is not a target school at all for IB. But any advice for breaking in would help, thank you.

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This entire site is built for kids trying to break in, if you cant figure it out then you dont deserve to break in.

 

The target schools in Canada are Western Ivey and Queens. Get good grades in first year and transfer. From what I know there are only like 1-2 kids every year who break into IB from McMaster. If you aren't able to transfer, there are plenty of resources on this site on how to go about recruiting as a non-target student.

 

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