Error in my personal statement?!

You should be really worried. Not because you made a mistake but I picked up on this "I used the same personal statement as last year, but made changes." you absolutely SHOULD NOT have done this. I applied to university before for a different subject that I've applied for this year and my tutor pulled me over to make sure I knew I absolutely could not use my personal statement from 2 years ago, not even part of it because UCAS stores every submitted personal statement on file and every single one submitted is checked for plagiarism, if it flags your statement as having identical sections to another previous one you'll be rejected before it's even sent off, regardless of the fact the original one was your own work. I'd get into contact with UCAS ASAP cause it's not a simple mistake to fix....

You should be really worried. Not because you made a mistake but I picked up on this "I used the same personal statement as last year, but made changes." you absolutely SHOULD NOT have done this. I applied to university before for a different subject that I've applied for this year and my tutor pulled me over to make sure I knew I absolutely could not use my personal statement from 2 years ago, not even part of it because UCAS stores every submitted personal statement on file and every single one submitted is checked for plagiarism, if it flags your statement as having identical sections to another previous one you'll be rejected before it's even sent off, regardless of the fact the original one was your own work. I'd get into contact with UCAS ASAP cause it's not a simple mistake to fix....

You can re-use your own previous personal statement, as long as you haven't done anything like put them on the internet for other people to help themselves to. UCAS don't flag you for plagiarism for it.

They do, my tutor and careers department warned me about it. Because it doesn't categorise by name it categorises by track or personal ID and that changes every time you apply so you show as a different student.

They do, my tutor and careers department warned me about it. Because it doesn't categorise by name it categorises by track or personal ID and that changes every time you apply so you show as a different student.

But if you spotted a mistake like this, would you ignore it if the rest of the application was good e.g. PS and grades?

What other factors would be put at a higher priority in an application than this small mistake?

You should be really worried. Not because you made a mistake but I picked up on this "I used the same personal statement as last year, but made changes." you absolutely SHOULD NOT have done this. I applied to university before for a different subject that I've applied for this year and my tutor pulled me over to make sure I knew I absolutely could not use my personal statement from 2 years ago, not even part of it because UCAS stores every submitted personal statement on file and every single one submitted is checked for plagiarism, if it flags your statement as having identical sections to another previous one you'll be rejected before it's even sent off, regardless of the fact the original one was your own work. I'd get into contact with UCAS ASAP cause it's not a simple mistake to fix....

UCAS made me use a different Personal ID while applying. But as soon as I sent it off, UCAS made me sign into track with the same Personal ID as last year.

Also my friend applied with the same personal statement, but nothing happened to her since they known she cant have plagiarised from herself.

Even if it was a major issue, which it really really isn't, you can't do anything about it anyway.

I know I can't do anything about it. But I'm just trying to get everyone's honest opinion on my error, so I can mentally prepare myself for the worst, without getting TOO disappointed if I get rejected, as I would have been able to see it coming.

Lol. You dont have too worry too much. Trust me in my personal statement i wrote the name of a course i really wanted to study "Korean Studies" and how much i loved korea. But i still got into all my choices even if they had nothing to do with that subject. "International Business Management"

Trust me they wont judge you really harshly for one grammatical error. I must have had 5 or 10 but i still got in to all.

I know I can't do anything about it. But I'm just trying to get everyone's honest opinion on my error, so I can mentally prepare myself for the worst, without getting TOO disappointed if I get rejected, as I would have been able to see it coming.

But I remember that your PS was focused on how much you're interested in the Korean culture and the skills you have for why you'd be suited to study International Business Management. Hence why you got into Korean Studies, International business management and International business management & Korean Language. So you basically killed two birds with one stone.

What type of grammatical errors did you have? Give examples if you can

No that wasn't me! Mine was a medicine application.

Lol the grammatical errors that i made were spelling mistakes. Reallllly Long sentences and just listing without a concluding and. You know how bad my english language skills are. I dont even know how the **** my PS got accepted. Trust me they dont give two ****s about that sentence. Realistically the only reason they could deny your acceptance is for some other reason like not enough experience. Unis dont give that much of a **** about grammer if you are able to get the idea across. Does it make sense for a uni to get rid of an high graded and experienced student because of one grammatical error? No. I understand that you are thinking theres competition it can just give leeway to another student without grammatical errors. But competition isnt that fierce that one grammatical mistake doesnt get you a place.