PS Your personal essay is intended to give you the opportunity to submit a narrative discussing your past education, experience, and current professional career objectives. Your statement of purpose should describe your: Reasons for interest in your application degree (public health, biostatistics, epidemiology) Your specific area(s) of research/professional interest in your application degree Career goals including how you hope to contribute to public health Reasons for interest in the University of Miami You are encouraged to compose your statement in a text-only word processor such as Notepad or TextEdit, review your statement for errors, then cut and paste the final version into the text box on your SOPHAS application. The word limit is 1,500 words. CV All applicants must submit a complete, up-to-date resume / CV that includes all employment, activities, community service, education and academic or professional honors. Be sure to detail all experience related to the discipline you are applying to (public health, biostatistics, epidemiology), including field experience, training, education or other related qualifications with bulleted summaries. Fee All applicants are required to pay a fee for use of the SOPHAS application service RL All applicants are required to submit three letters of recommendation from those who are best able to assess your ability to be successful in a graduate degree program. Ideally, your recommenders are recent professors, researchers or employers in a related field. Applicants should request that their recommender write a letter that is specific to the discipline that they are applying to (public health, biostatistics, epidemiology). Form letters and recommendations written for medical school applications contribute little to your application and are strongly discouraged. You will be asked for your recommenders’ contact information on the online application. They will be sent an online form to complete via email. Applicants must submit a minimum of three to a maximum of five recommendations. Applications are not reviewed until this requirement is met. Transcript All non-US transcripts must be evaluated by the World Education Service (WES) using their ICAP Course-by-course evaluation service. For further instructions, visit the WES-SOPHAS website at www.wes.org/sophas/. Non-US transcripts are evaluated exclusively through WES. Make sure to enter your SOPHAS ID on your WES evaluation request so that your evaluation electronically matches to your application. In addition to submitting your transcripts to WES, all international applicants are required to submit an additional set of all official transcripts, mark sheets and a photocopy of their diploma(s) (with English translation when applicable) at the time of their application to: University of Miami, Public Health Graduate Programs 1120 NW 14th street, R-669, Room 905, Miami, FL 33136 Chinese transcripts must be submitted with two original verification report in addition to original copies of the transcript and diploma with English translation to both WES and directly to the University of Miami. Contact the China Academic Degree and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) at cqv.chinadegrees.cn/cn/. Both reports must be mailed directly by the CDGDC.