Missed a few words in the ending of my personal statement

Hi everyone, I'm applying for Business and Mangenment. I sent off my application already last week and I have already got an offer from Durham. However, I went to my UCAS account today to check some details and I realised my ending sentence of my personal statement is not completed, it goes like that:
"I believe that it will be a challenging yet engaging course to study, which will broaden my perspectives and open up career opportunities for me to manage a company which t"
it should be "which thrives the world of business."
Although I have already got an offer, I'm still panicking. I have asked UCAS for advice, they told me to email my universities and ask for permissions to make a correction. However, I think it will limit my chance for getting an offer from them, especially they are LSE and UCL.

Reply 1

kjames1000

You should be able to change it if it is less that 7 days since you got your track email- if not I would email those universities or call them for advice. Durham is quite a picky uni so it can't be seen as so major if they haven't penalised you for it. All the best.

Reply 2

Lamatata

Original post by kjames1000

Thanks! It's 7 days tomorrow, what should I do now, I don't want to leave it too late

help!

Original post by Lamatata

help!

You can't change your PS and has been demonstrated to you by your offer from Durham, it clearly does not matter.

Reply 5

Duncan2012

Calm down. You've already seen it doesn't matter. Next time learn the lesson of proof-reading anything you submit.

Reply 6

Clearing and Applications Advisor

Emailing your universities will just draw attention to an error that may well be missed or forgiven otherwise. If this was down to an error on the part of someone other than you then it would be worth getting in touch.

The only thing you should do is to learn from this and properly proof read your final submissions.

Reply 7

Lamatata

Original post by PQ

Its obviously my fault not to proof read it before submitting it, as I believed my referee who said it's all fine and perfect.
But the error is too obvious, there is no way that the universities will miss it. If I call and apologise, will it be better ?

Reply 8

Carnationlilyrose

Original post by Lamatata

You've just been told that it won't. Forget about it.

Reply 9

Rorschach II

to be honest, fi the rest is good I doubt they'd care

Reply 10

swanseajack1

Subject area

Economics Total intake (by subject area)

237 (2016 entry) Applications per place (by subject area)

12 (2014 entry) applications per place
I have just taken economics as a random case. This shows UCL has over 2000 applications for economics. They are not going to physically go through all these personal statements with a tooth comb. This has already been shown by you having an offer from Durham. You might or might not get an offer from UCL or LSE but this will be due to the competition you will face rather than a few words missing off your PS, Even if you don't you are still lucky enough to have an offer from Durham. Applying to UCL LSE and Durham is very high risk and some end up with no offers.

Reply 11

Lamatata

Thanks for your replies guys, it really helped a lot. I decided to leave it and not to do anything. It turns out I just got another offer from Manchester yesterday ！

Reply 12

Carnationlilyrose

Original post by Lamatata

Thanks for your replies guys, it really helped a lot. I decided to leave it and not to do anything. It turns out I just got another offer from Manchester yesterday ！