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When writing your personal statement, you want to show the universities that you have researched them in addition to the course you are applying for. Furthermore, you want to make it clear why you want to be...

For this, I have a whole lesson prepared. I think firstly, I always go through UCAS with them. Then, I run through past personal statement. I picked real personal statements of people who got into Cambridge ...

Write everything that you know about yourself. How detailed or polished it is, that doesn't matter yet. Why? It's easier to trim down and polish than to come up with the perfect phrasing from scratch. After ...

Universities get a huge amount of applications each year. Each one will contain a person trying to explain to them why they should be let into that specific university. What they are really interested to see...

A personal statement, no matter where you apply to, is a chance for you to show off intellectually and prove to the reader that you are curious, ambitious and daring. At Oxbridge especially, supervisors and ...