Personal statement for two different courses ?

I've been looking at cardiff's medical pharmacology course and it looks great, but theres not a lot of info about it. it seems there are 13 places?! and roughly 10x as many people applying, so the odds of getting in are slim .

Im not sure what to do now , would i be able to apply for this and biomedical science? or are they too different to write one personal statement for. Would it be worth me emailing them ?

Well, I'm not sure about the science-y side of things, but when I did my personal statement, I had to cater it to five completely different courses! As long as you show that you're passionate about everything you're applying for, it won't be to your disadvantage. Admissions tutors do realise that a lot of people don't apply for the same subject everywhere, you're allowed a broad spectrum of interests.

When applying for two different courses, you must use the same personal statement unfortunately. HOWEVER, you can contact the admin office of one course and ask to write another. I did this, but it turned out I did not need to write any extra.

thank you both for the reply, feel much more reassured about it than i did earlier, just hope im not trying to stretch one personal statement too far, think i will email them

Yeah. I realised that two courses on one statement is virtually impossible. You can only apply once, so that's the problem there. If the courses are similar, you can always give one university the original, and ask to write another based solely on their topic. I recommend ringing their admissions in September and asking them. It's better getting an answer over the phone.

Also, if you can, indicate similarities between courses subtly in the statement. What are you applying for? I'll try and give an example.

id like to apply for neuroscience and medical pharmacology. mm what i was thinking bout mentioning was my work done with the OU, iv completed a course with them which was looking at drug development, receptors and so forth. i guess that could apply to both.
when writing it should i keep slightly open, so that it could apply to both ? im just thinking if i make it seem open that it'll look like im not sure what i want to do

hope that makes sense

Yeah. I realised that two courses on one statement is virtually impossible. You can only apply once, so that's the problem there. If the courses are similar, you can always give one university the original, and ask to write another based solely on their topic. I recommend ringing their admissions in September and asking them. It's better getting an answer over the phone.

Also, if you can, indicate similarities between courses subtly in the statement. What are you applying for? I'll try and give an example.

I have exactly the same problem and am freaking out! I want to do Business and event management as one course and Politics,philosophy and economics as another! Help

how about applying for adult nursing and child nursing..I have experience in both fields ,been working as a healthcare assistant in both children and adults hospitals. I am not sure if its possible to use same personal statement.

It looks really bad if you apply to one uni for all branches. It shows as they have said a lack of understanding and lack of passion as essentially you have applied just to get into nursing.
It shows that you don't have a future goal or that you know where your passion lies essentially.
Google applying for nursing, look at blogs and examples of personal statements and best of luck.

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is it better to just address the fact that i am applying to two different courses or should i just try to work around it?