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myUface will accept students with US passports, and will share their information with U.S. universities.  It will be up to the universities how they want to handle U.S. citizens living abroad.

Your academic record does matter.  However, most universities will also consider your work experience, recommendations, essays, test scores, and other factors.  Just because you don’t have perfect grades does NOT mean you won’t be of interest to U.S. universities.  At the same time, you may want to work extra hard on the other aspects of your application in order to compensate for an average academic record.

That depends on the student and the university.  myUface simply facilitates a connection between U.S. universities and students.  If a student is very appealing to a university, there’s a good chance they will offer the student a tuition discount of some kind.  If, on the other hand, a student is not a great fit for a university, the university might not accept the student at all, and probably will not offer any financial assistance.

So by using myUface you’re not guaranteeing yourself financial aid.  HOWEVER, by increasing the number of universities who see your application, you do increase the chances that at least one of them will be interested enough to offer financial assistance of some kind.

Here at myUface we just announced that we would send the information of students who finish their myUface application by December 31st to U.S. universities, for free.  This is an excellent opportunity for you to market yourself to a number of U.S. universities, and we encourage you to take advantage of it.

But this is not the only deadline that matters for international students, of course.  Every scholarship program, every university, every consulate has hard deadlines that you as an international student must meet, or your dream of studying abroad may not occur.

Tragically, every year hundreds – if not thousands – of talented international students miss out on great educational opportunities for the simple reason that they wait until the last minute to fill out their applications.  As a result, they miss deadlines, or submit poor application materials.

Conclusion?  One of the most important pieces of advice we can give you is this:  DON’T PROCRASTINATE.  “Procrastination” means putting off doing something important and doing something frivolous instead.  Generally speaking, we procrastinate because we feel nervous about a particular task, and rather than face that nervousness, we find something “easy” to do.  We tell ourselves that we can always do the more difficult task later.

Of course, the truth is, every day we wait to do that important task, it becomes harder and harder.  Soon, we find ourselves running out of time, and a task that would have been easy is suddenly difficult – or even impossible.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!!!  In May, we posted a list of some online information about procrastination and how to fight it.  You may find these resources useful now, as you look ahead to approaching deadlines.  Most importantly, realize that the easiest solution to procrastination is to JUST DO IT – just start working on what needs to be done.   I know it can be hard, but the results of hard work are worth it!