Swansea University Applicants' Page 2016

I initially looked at a few general PS to get into the mindset of what a good PS shares across different subjects

I then went onto the TSR personal statement section and opened every single one for my course. I then opened every single one on studential. I looked at about 60-80 and closed off the ones that I couldn't relate to at all and narrowed it down to about 20 and then looked at those more closely and saw what was good about them, the way they phrase things and their structure - how they address key points etc and used it in mine.

To proof check your PS for plagiarism just copy your PS into google, one line at a time. Mine seemed to be very personal as I couldn't find a single line / phrase on the search engines, but even if some of it is vaguely similar and Google finds something similar, it will be dismissed as UCAS knows that over the years some statements will have similar phrases. Obviously if this happens for more than 3 lines I would change it.

Just keep it short and real concise, get to the main points and do it quick. Admissions look over hundreds of these things in a day and they're not looking for flowery language; they're looking for candidates that are capable of their course, with enough passion and desire not to drop out in the first year.

Also my biggest advice is not to worry yourself to death. Just do your thing and ideas will pop into your head, note them down and take it a bit at a time if you have to. Main thing is to write something that you can later amend, even if it's bad to start with.

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Lovely pictures! I'm guessing you go there...?

Name: Tom
Location: Portsmouth
Course: Law with American studies (with an intercalary year)
Undergraduate/Postgraduate: Undergraduate
AS Level Grades (achieved/predicted): D*BBB
A2 Level Grades (achieved/predicted): AAA
Offer made/rejected: TBC

Welcome to the thread!

Have you submitted your UCAS yet? If so, how are you feeling? Have the nerves gotten to you yet?

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Lost?! Are you sure that the universities you've applied to just haven't sent acknowledgement emails / looked at your application yet?

Haha, I'm been checking Track constantly for the past 2 days it will ruin your life

Name: Emily
Location: Sussex
Course: Sport and exercise science
Undergraduate/Postgraduate: Undergraduate
GCSEs: 1A*, 5As, 5Bs
AS Level grades: CDDD (retaking some modules)
A2 Level Grades: Predicted - BBC
--- had a pretty tough year settling into college, hence why my grades came out rubbish and my predictions are higher. October KA predicted ABC---
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Heya Emily!
How are you feeling about UCAS and the whole process? Have you sent your application off yet?

Name: Niall
Location: Birmingham
Course: Civil Engineering
Undergraduate/Postgraduate: undergraduate
AS Level Grades (achieved/predicted): AABC
A2 Level Grades (achieved/predicted): AAB
Offer made/rejected: TBC

Name: Heledd
Location: North Wales
Course: English lit
Undergraduate/Postgraduate: Undergraduate
AS Level Grades (achieved/predicted): BBC
A2 Level Grades (achieved/predicted): BBB
Offer made/rejected: TBC

Welcome the both of you!

Have you sent your UCAS off yet? Have the nerves officially begun?!

anyone been to any open days?

I went to the one last Saturday, it was pretty good

Did you go through the hsv? I think I saw you

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