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The trick to personal statements is not in beginning with some incongruous quotation, or writing a pretentious essay, but rather in showing what you're really like in an interesting way - not just listing yo...

As well as the typical answers to this: 'say what you love about the subject', 'make sure your personality comes across' etc, the main way in which I believe a personal statement stands out is by demonstrati...

The key to writting a good personal statement is to use your own ideas and come up with your own ways of expressing them. There is very little point to writting what you think Universities want to hear as mo...

Get student to say the hobbies they do and what skills they believe they have developed from taking part in the activity to show admissions what key qualities make them suited to the course they have applied...

Writing a Personal Statement is never a simple task. You are (usually) limited to 4,000 characters in which you must convince the admissions tutor that you are worthy of a place at their institution or, at l...