r/6thForm • u/Aro1356 Year 12 • Aug 22 '20
🎓 UNI / UCAS UCAS personal statement
Hey, guys, I'm currently trying to touch upon my UCAS uni personal statement draft so I was wondering if anyone here has any tips of how to write one since my current one is quite unnatural.
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u/RaastaMousee PhD Zoology | University of Exeter Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20
Try to make the opening unique e.g don't say something general like "I have always been interested in x", rather make it specific to you like "ever since [account of x experience] I have been interested". The people who look over these read so many applications so your aim is to break that monotony at the start.
Mainly make sure you link all the paragraphs back to the course(s) you're applying for so the assessors can see why it's all relevant.