We take every aspect of your personal profile into consideration when calculating your admissions chances.
How do you expect to grow while you are at the University of St. Francis?
What do you want to get out of a college education besides a degree?
What do you want to learn while you are at USF?
What can you offer to the University of St. Francis?
What abilities do you believe you have, that you would want the admissions committee to know about?
In addition to better time management, what can you do to achieve success in college?
Share any challenges (health, family, personal) that may have hampered your performance in school thus far.
If you have been out of school more than a year:
What have you been doing during your time away from school?
Can you tell us about why you are deciding to come back to school? Why now?
Explain what circumstances or challenges prevented you from doing your best work in your prior courses.
The committee members will be looking for self-reflection, professionalism (ie: accepting responsibility), and most of all, what has changed that will make you more successful.
The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full range if you need it, but don‘t feel obligated to do so.
Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?
Reflect on something that someone has done for you that has made you happy or thankful in a surprising way. How has this gratitude affected or motivated you?
Discuss an accomplishment, event, or realization that sparked a period of personal growth and a new understanding of yourself or others.
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?
Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you‘ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design.
