myUface Blog

Over the past few weeks we’ve made some pretty major changes to the myUface application.  The purpose of these changes is to provide you with more opportunities to share meaningful information with U.S. universities.  Our new application sections will make the myUface application much more useful for our university partners.

For those of you who have already filled out most of an application, don’t worry, you don’t have to start over.  You simply have a few more section you can now fill out.

Those sections are:

• Testing information – we’ve given you a place where you can input your standardized test scores.  We have listed pretty much every conceivable test, but don’t worry – you don’t need to fill them all out.  You only need to fill out the tests required for the program you’re interested in.
• Attach Files – here you can attach a Resume / CV, recommendation letters, and a writing sample / essay.  Do you absolutely need to do these things? Well, no.  Should you do these things if you want universities to get a complete picture of who you are?  Yes.

For those of you who’ve been using the application for awhile, you’ll also notice that we’ve changed the look and feel of the site a little bit.  As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us via this form, or send us an e-mail:

blog@myuface.com

We are constantly seeking to improve this service, so please let us know if there’s some changes you’d like to see.

In the “Academic Questions” section of the myUface application, question #4 asks, “Please describe your professional or career plans (300 words or less).”  Many students struggle to answer this question.  Here are a few hints about completing this section of the application:

1. You do not have to know 100% what your career will be. Most students aren’t certain what they want to do as a career, and that’s fine.  Tell us what you’re interested in as of now.
2. Your career plans should fit with the field of study in which you’re interested. If you listed “Physics” as the field you’d like to study, and then you write “I’d like to be a poet” under you career plans, it will seem a little odd.  So make sure that the fields of study you’ve chosen link to your career plans.  Or, if they don’t explain why they don’t.
3. Be concise. 300 words isn’t a lot.  This isn’t the place to tell a story.  Use simple language to tell us what you’d like to do.
4. It’s OK to dream. If you hope to be the president of your country one day, tell us!  Don’t be afraid to share your ambitions.  On the other hand, if you have modest goals, that’s fine too.  With this question we want an honest idea of where you see yourself ten or twenty years from now.

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