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Can you write a new personal statement for clearing?

If you get rejected from all your choices, are you allowed to write and submit a new personal statement for entering clearing, or do you have to stick to your original one?
Original post by Cinqueta
If you get rejected from all your choices, are you allowed to write and submit a new personal statement for entering clearing, or do you have to stick to your original one?


You can, but because you'll be talking to admissions tutors you may not need one if you can be persuasive enough over the phone. I went from maths to optometry with no alternative PS.

If you want to change course, you don't have to wait until Clearing.
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It's a good idea to write one for yourself to refer to when talking to admissions tutors. It doesn't have to be as formal, but you should write some ideas down so when they ask why you want to do the course you don't go blank or say something stupid.

You can offer to email the admissions tutor a new personal statement but they may not want one. With the timescale they don't have time to read hundreds of them.

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