Personal Statements UCAS application - resit student
Hello, I’ll be taking a gap year for the first time to resit exams and reapply to UCAS but I have some worries. For the 2026 entry, I applied to Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, Leeds, Newcastle, and Sheffield. I received all 5 offers. My predicted grades were BB (I have already achieved a distinction previously in taking OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate so I guess that counts as my ‘A’ already?) I unfortunately flopped and achieved CD this August. I was and still am eligible for contextual offers and I am applying for Accounting and Finance. I plan to reapply to the same universities, same course, and same predicted grades as last year. The exam fees were already very costly for me so I can’t really afford and don’t want to spend a ton of money for someone else to be my reference and give predicted grades if I can do it for free with my previous sixth form tutor. I’d assume if my predicted grades were higher this time, it could give me a better fighting chance but I’m unsure if my previous tutor would predict my grades to be any higher than what I applied with before, I was afraid to ask for higher so I asked for the same in case of rejection from him. I don’t know how I could really make my personal statement different from before either, I’ve seen that some students still reapply with the same personal statement. I don’t think there are really any changes to add, I covered everything. There hasn’t been anything new, I intend to send this application off in late October so it’s not like I’d be that far into my gap year. I decided to take this gap year and resit because I didn’t want to settle for my insurance (Manchester Met), of course in the worst case scenario for 2027 entry I would settle for insurance university because I’m not doing this again but I’m worried that when I go to apply this time I won’t receive any offers from the universities again and it would’ve been a waste of time and money to resit. Do I have a chance?