How to Increase Your Profile Completeness

Increasing your profile completeness percentage is easy! This quick guide will lead you through it step by step.
How It Works
There are 3 main sections of your profile that you’ll want to fill out: Top Summary, About Me, and Life Story.
Your profile completeness is not determined by how many activities you do. Instead, it’s based on how many details you share for each of the activities you enter. So whenever you add a new entry, make sure to fill out each field, add an external link, upload a PDF or Word file, and add an image to that entry.
Let’s take these 3 sections one by one.
- Top Summary This is where you can upload a series of pictures and write an introduction about yourself in your own words. The Top Summary is the first thing about you that reviewers see, so spend a little time here thinking about the message you would like to communicate. Share your hobbies, your passions, your dreams and goals, and something you recently accomplished, created, or made an impact on that you are proud of. To increase completeness, you need to add at least 3 images and a few sentences into each of these fields:
- Images (at least 3)
- Who Am I
- Hobbies
- Something I’m Proud of
- About Me The About Me section is designed to help you get connected with colleges and universities who are looking for students just like you. Colleges and universities are interested in creating well-rounded freshman classes which include students from many different types of families and backgrounds. Therefore, filling out each field in this section helps colleges find you. Enter your information in each of these fields: Basic Info There are 8 fields to complete in your Basic Info section.
- Contact number (this is your telephone number)
- Address
- Birthday
- Gender
- Languages Known
- Race/Ethnicity
- Religious Affiliation
- Citizenship
- Life Story Your Life Story is where you get to share all the skills and experiences you’ve had that make you the special person that you are. This section is designed to encompass your whole life, both inside and outside of school. Recruiters, admissions officers, and hiring managers really want to know who you are – authentically and holistically. This is where you tell them! There are 7 categories within your Life Story:
- Academics
- Supplemental Learning
- Summer Activities
- Music & Arts
- Sports
- Volunteering
- Internship & Work Experience
- Attach at least one document (such as a PDF file of an award you won, a Word document describing a project you did or a paper you wrote) and one picture for each entry.
- Here’s a great way to increase your score: receiving recommendations from teachers or coaches gives you a big bump up. These can be your teachers at school, or private teachers or coaches. Receiving a recommendation is also a great way to validate the skills and experiences listed in your profile.