Personal Statement dilemma - different courses, with elements that others don&#x27;t have

What about other PPE courses?

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RibenaRockstar

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If you like Politics and are interested in Economics, why not apply for Politics with Economics at Bath rather than Politics and IR? Nearly all the units are the same and you can still take plenty of IR units.

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Original post by *Interrobang*

What about other PPE courses?

looked at some of them, warwick offer a good one for example that covers a lot of IR based stuff (but I preferred Exeter as a Uni for me), however the majority of other PPE courses don't cover IR in the same depth as I'd like/as is found in IR courses, and since IR is the bit I enjoy the most I wouldn't really want to cross it off unless it was absolutely necessary, thanks though!

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Original post by RibenaRockstar

If you like Politics and are interested in Economics, why not apply for Politics with Economics at Bath rather than Politics and IR? Nearly all the units are the same and you can still take plenty of IR units.

Just looked at the course itself, that doesn't look like a bad idea at all! I'll run through it and compare the 2 courses, although from what I can see the optional modules I'd want to study are all ready options! Cheers

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caroline brady

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Original post by Xavier617

Hi there guys and gals, I'm a little stuck and could do with some advice and/or help.

I've decided on the 5 universities that I plan on putting down in my UCAS application, and am working on my personal statement. I've got a few ideas on what to include and have done plenty of background reading on how to put together a successful personal statement, but...

Some of the courses I'm putting down are slightly different, and so I'm not sure how I should go about putting together a suitable personal statement. Here are the courses I'm looking at (with the respective Universities)

I study in a private international school where representatives from top British universities often visit us in function rooms in hotels and they always tell us the same thing. What matters most are the grades, not the Personal Statement.

So focus on getting the grades.

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If the courses you are applying for overlap in content, but not in name then focus on areas of study rather than subject names when writing your PS

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Original post by *Interrobang*

If the courses you are applying for overlap in content, but not in name then focus on areas of study rather than subject names when writing your PS

Okay that sounds like a sensible thing to do, how about with regards to the economics/maths based aspects being present in some courses and not in others? I still have to address each part of the degree as far as I know :/ Any recommendations on that?

Thanks for the input by the way, fully appreciate it

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Original post by Xavier617

Okay that sounds like a sensible thing to do, how about with regards to the economics/maths based aspects being present in some courses and not in others? I still have to address each part of the degree as far as I know :/ Any recommendations on that?

Thanks for the input by the way, fully appreciate it

That one is more difficult if the elements of economics are completely different, but try and find commonalities and talk about those areas if possible

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Original post by *Interrobang*

That one is more difficult if the elements of economics are completely different, but try and find commonalities and talk about those areas if possible

Okay will do. I've checked some of the optional modules at the universities with the courses that don't immediately involve economics or other related maths subjects and they offer economics-based modules so I'd assume I could use common links between these optional modules and the compulsory economics modules at the other unis?

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