[Jacob Bolton]

I have just finished year 12 and have started the UCAS process. I have looked at potential Uni's and have put my choices down on the UCAS website. However due to missing the last two days of my College's induction/ UCAS days I'm worried that I don't have a academic reference for my personal statement. I also have no idea when the personal statement should be sent off could anyone help me??

[Vulpes]

(Original post by Jacob Bolton)
I have just finished year 12 and have started the UCAS process. I have looked at potential Uni's and have put my choices down on the UCAS website. However due to missing the last two days of my College's induction/ UCAS days I'm worried that I don't have a academic reference for my personal statement. I also have no idea when the personal statement should be sent off could anyone help me??

You will have to contact one of you teachers / subject heads and ask them to write you an academic reference. This should be sent directly to your admissions officer at your college. Your personal statement is sent off with the rest of the application. After you have completed the UCAS form (includes a section for the personal statement), you make the payment and it gets sent to the admissions officer at your college, who then attaches the academic reference and cross-checks your details, before sending it off to UCAS.

The deadline for Oxbridge & Medical applications is October 15th. You have until January to submit your UCAS form for most other courses.

[maliksajwani]

(Original post by Vulpes)
You will have to contact one of you teachers / subject heads and ask them to write you an academic reference. This should be sent directly to your admissions officer at your college. Your personal statement is sent off with the rest of the application. After you have completed the UCAS form (includes a section for the personal statement), you make the payment and it gets sent to the admissions officer at your college, who then attaches the academic reference and cross-checks your details, before sending it off to UCAS.

The deadline for Oxbridge & Medical applications is October 15th. You have until January to submit your UCAS form for most other courses.

Hi!

I am Malik Sajwani and I have an enquiry which I have difficulty finding on UCAS Website.

My Choices for courses are:



LSE: BSc. in Actuarial Sciences

LSE: Economics

City: BSc. in Actuarial Sciences

UCL: Economics

Cambridge: Economics



My Question is how can I make one Personal Statement using these courses?

I contacted LSE about it and they said both are different courses so youmight get rejected.

What should I do?

Thanks

[roh]

(Original post by maliksajwani)
Hi!

I am Malik Sajwani and I have an enquiry which I have difficulty finding on UCAS Website.

My Choices for courses are:



LSE: BSc. in Actuarial Sciences

LSE: Economics

City: BSc. in Actuarial Sciences

UCL: Economics

Cambridge: Economics



My Question is how can I make one Personal Statement using these courses?

I contacted LSE about it and they said both are different courses so youmight get rejected.

What should I do?

Thanks

You can try and contact the universities asking if you could submit a separate PS directly to them but they under no obligation to say yes, and if they do they can still look at the one you send through UCAS should they choose to.

Economics is offered at a lot of universities so you may be better off subbing in somewhere like Warwick for LSE Actuarial Sciences in order for your PS to work for all your options.

[maliksajwani]

(Original post by roh)
You can try and contact the universities asking if you could submit a separate PS directly to them but they under no obligation to say yes, and if they do they can still look at the one you send through UCAS should they choose to.

Economics is offered at a lot of universities so you may be better off subbing in somewhere like Warwick for LSE Actuarial Sciences in order for your PS to work for all your options.

Thanks it helped alot!! but in your experience is it possible to write a single P.S for both the courses?

[roh]

(Original post by maliksajwani)
Thanks it helped alot!! but in your experience is it possible to write a single P.S for both the courses?

I'm not an Economics specialist so you may want to check with them, but generally it's quite hard. People have done it, but it's not easy and probably still shows up to an extent.

Remember you're sending it to clever people who have seen thousands of personal statements down the years, they will be able to spot if you're being less specific than you should be about the subject their degree is in. In your case because it's 2 courses at 1 uni it may be flagged by some internal system anyway, though I'm not sure if this happens.

Just look at it afterwards and go 'if I were applying to pure Econ would this be different and if it was would it be better for that course?' because you can bet if you're able to spot it so can the admissions tutors.

Also, I see you're going for Cam. You could have a very awkward and uncomfortable moment in your interview where someone who's very clever starts giving you the third degree about your discussion of actuarial sciences in the PS.

In short, can you do it? Yes. Have people got away with it in the past? Yes. Is it advisable? Probably not.