Need help with my accounting personal statement

Original post by Junaid12

Hi

I am struggling to merge "accounting and finance" and "accounting with management into one personal statement". can anyone offer me some advice and help?

I just talked about accounting in mine even though applying to similar degrees as you.

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Original post by dom117117

I just talked about accounting in mine even though applying to similar degrees as you.

Ooh. I thought i would have to talk a bit about management. But you never mention a specific degree name like accounting and finance in it right?

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Original post by Junaid12

Ooh. I thought i would have to talk a bit about management. But you never mention a specific degree name like accounting and finance in it right?

I was told not to be too specific as you could alienate certain universities. If the running theme in your choices is accounting it would be fine just to talk about accounting. If you talk about management and one uni course doesn't have that as a module they may not think your equally committed to them.
Even though most my choices were accounting and finance I only spoke about an Accounting degree. You could talk about business and your interest in it as that's in all accounting degrees. Hope this helps 😄

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Original post by dom117117

I was told not to be too specific as you could alienate certain universities. If the running theme in your choices is accounting it would be fine just to talk about accounting. If you talk about management and one uni course doesn't have that as a module they may not think your equally committed to them.

Cheers mate. I was thinking if i did it might mess things up.
thanks for the help. BTW which universities are you applying to?

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Original post by Junaid12

Cheers mate. I was thinking if i did it might mess things up.
thanks for the help. BTW which universities are you applying to?

Warwick, Bath, Loughborough, Reading and Kent. My applications already sent so I'd cry if I did my personal statement wrong. What universities u applying to?

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Original post by dom117117

I just talked about accounting in mine even though applying to similar degrees as you.

But for accounting and finance, aren't there lecturers for both, and so the subjects are different, requiring you to focus on both in the personal statement? If you get offers, than I suppose it doesn't matter.

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Original post by Ze Witcher

But for accounting and finance, aren't there lecturers for both, and so the subjects are different, requiring you to focus on both in the personal statement? If you get offers, than I suppose it doesn't matter.

yeah but each course differs such as one of my choices is accounting with business so talking about finance wouldn't work.

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Original post by dom117117

yeah but each course differs such as one of my choices is accounting with business so talking about finance wouldn't work.

Oh fair enough. What sort of variations of accounting courses are you applying to?

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Original post by idr335

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sure, just submitted it.

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Original post by dom117117

Warwick, Bath, Loughborough, Reading and Kent. My applications already sent so I'd cry if I did my personal statement wrong. What universities u applying to?

Nice, I'm applying for Uni of Birmingham, Uni of Nottingham, Aston Loughborough and Coventry and dont worry. it will all be good. Hopefully bump into each other at a uni lecture or something lol :smile:

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Original post by Ze Witcher

Oh fair enough. What sort of variations of accounting courses are you applying to?

Accounting with business, accounting and finance, accounting and finacial management. What are you applying for and which uni?

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Original post by Junaid12

Nice, I'm applying for Uni of Birmingham, Uni of Nottingham, Aston Loughborough and Coventry and dont worry. it will all be good. Hopefully bump into each other at a uni lecture or something lol :smile:

haha imagine doubt we would know we talked on here though😄

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Original post by dom117117

Accounting with business, accounting and finance, accounting and finacial management. What are you applying for and which uni?

Not finalised but this is what I am considering...
Warwick and lse (accounting and finance)
Queen mary, surrey, kent, loughborough (econ)
Bristol (econ with finance)

I've been lucky enough to be able to send an additional personal statement for the econ course so theres no issue there :h:

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Original post by Ze Witcher

Not finalised but this is what I am considering...
Warwick and lse (accounting and finance)
Queen mary, surrey, kent, loughborough (econ)
Bristol (econ with finance)

I've been lucky enough to be able to send an additional personal statement for the econ course so theres no issue there :h:

Nice choices yeah would of been a nightmare if you had econ, accounting and finance to talk about😄 U gone to any open days? Warwicks is in 2 weeks and I've just been to Loughboroughs

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Original post by dom117117

Nice choices yeah would of been a nightmare if you had econ, accounting and finance to talk about😄 U gone to any open days? Warwicks is in 2 weeks and I've just been to Loughboroughs

Possibly might go to warwick, only issue is that it is relatively far away for me for a days travel. So far I've only been to Queen Mary and i've been invited to some student shadowing at lse. Is loughborough a nice uni?

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Original post by Ze Witcher

Not finalised but this is what I am considering...
Warwick and lse (accounting and finance)
Queen mary, surrey, kent, loughborough (econ)
Bristol (econ with finance)

I've been lucky enough to be able to send an additional personal statement for the econ course so theres no issue there :h:

LSE are very particular about their PSs. It will be difficult to write PSs for those courses (and the OP's choices), as altho they have some similarities, there are also distinct differences

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Original post by *Interrobang*

LSE are very particular about their PSs. It will be difficult to write PSs for those courses (and the OP's choices), as altho they have some similarities, there are also distinct differences

Oh I know

. I am sending in an accounting and finance personal statement targeting mainly lse (if i apply there) through ucas, and hope warwick accept it as well. And the econ courses are just additional PSs completely different to the accounting and finance one to lse.

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