-
Junior Member
- Join Date
- Nov 2009
- Posts
- 10
What Is The Point in Personal Statements?
I am unsure why we need to do personal statements? I would understand if medicine was an English or writing based course, however although a fair bit of writing is entailed, it is not the paramount focus throughout! So why do we need personal statements? Also is it possible to get over the 4000 character limit by having each new word starting with a capital letter but avoiding spaces LikeThis?
-
Junior Member
- Join Date
- May 2008
- Posts
- 60
Maybe because there are thousands of applicants and they need to decide who is worth interviewing!
YesYouCouldGetAFewMoreCharactersButIsThisEasyToRea d?
One of the skills being tested is communication so that suggests it should be written to a high standard. Selectors will discard applications where the personal statement is not easy to read.Applying 2010:
UEA: 5yr - interviewed 7th January
Sheffield: 5yr - anticipating rejection :-(
Barts 4yr - interview 25th March (at WMS)
Warwick 4yr - interview 25th March
Grad applicant just about finishing a PhD
UKCAT - 732.5
Similar Threads
-
SGUL read UCAS personal statements?
By Love in forum St George's, University of LondonReplies: 16Last Post: 31-12-2009, 03:10 PM -
Advice on constructing a Personal Statement and Referee info
By Kev in forum Personal Statements and UCAS formsReplies: 73Last Post: 06-12-2009, 11:45 PM -
words that look good on your personal statements
By rafer88 in forum Personal Statements and UCAS formsReplies: 1Last Post: 03-09-2006, 04:19 PM -
Personal Statements
By Bethfarr in forum Personal Statements and UCAS formsReplies: 1Last Post: 27-08-2006, 11:33 PM -
Example personal statements
By medschoolsonline.co.uk in forum UK Medical School AdmissionsReplies: 0Last Post: 27-11-2005, 03:32 PM


LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With Quote



Bookmarks