I am a Sri Lankan. I applied for a business management two year diploma bcz I have work experience related to that. I explained how I did my GCE OLs and ALs well and then immediately after started working. I did not have an environment to study specialy when I was working in UAE. so I saved money hoping to persue my study dream one day. Then I moved to Italy and started a family so I became a stay at home mom. I explained why I couldn't work in Italy, I am not fluent in Italian and my education is not sufficient to compete in european job market. Then I showed them that I applied to a university in Italy but they have very few courses for my level undergraduate studies in English. I got accepted but it was not for my choice of program while having ot in hand I applied to Canada. I basically covered all the questions VO might think to him self. Why I want to study now? Why not Italy or Europe? Why Canada? Will I come back? I applied only for my self first, my daughter and husband after I got visa. Also how me and my husband invested in property back in Sri Lanka a joint account in Sri Lanka we maintained online from Italy a history of a couple of years. In order to show ties. SOP matters a lot. Explain everything in SOP provide evidence to each fact in supporting docs. Thats what I did. I did eveything on my own without any agents. I did a lot of reasearch though.