Personal Statement Help Question Thread

Good afternoon I was just wondering what the upper character limit for posting in the PS help is. I've cut mine down to 4769 and I'm struggling to cut anymore, but am I right to presume that as it's an Oxbridge application then you'll rip it to shreds and I'll lose this many characters anyway?

Thanks guys

PS help is an equal opportunity statement shredder, committed to helping people get into any university. Oxbridge statements don't get shredded more than any others, however much they may need it. The limit is 4000 characters, including spaces and lines between paragraphs.

Good afternoon I was just wondering what the upper character limit for posting in the PS help is. I've cut mine down to 4769 and I'm struggling to cut anymore, but am I right to presume that as it's an Oxbridge application then you'll rip it to shreds and I'll lose this many characters anyway?

Thanks guys

hey,

my ps is written to cater for applications to a politcs course. reckon i could use the same one for a politics and international relations?

thank you

I've decided to re-apply for a different course this September, having completed the first year of my current undergraduate course in June, which means I'll have to take an enforced gap year. This will most likely be spent in a job, if I can find one, and is very unlikely to be related to the course I'm applying for so I would like to ask how I would go about writing a personal statement in these circumstances. The two courses are not too dissimiliar so could I link relevant aspects of the first year to the course I'm applying for? Also, I gather that it's not a good idea to drone on about excuses for the unsuitability of your old course and that it's better to focus on the reasons why you're applying for the new course. Lastly, since my gap year plans are rather uninspiring and not related to the course, is it really necessary to talk about them?

Any help in answering the questions above would be much appreciated!

If i have written my statement but its only 17 lines and 1500 characters is it too short.
I feel i have put everything i need to in there im just worried that it will get disregarded due to its length :/

I want to study maths at university. In my PS I have a whole paragraph talking about why I find maths beautiful and Euler's identity. Do you think this is a waste of space? Am I allowed to post questions like this here, or am I supposed to do it in the PS Helper bit?

Would it look bad if I don't have any irrelevant ECs (e.g. don't play for a team or an instrument, no DoE etc?) I have a job outside of school but that's about it...

I've been working on my statement over the past few days. My original draft was 4400 characters, my tutor said that it needs trimming down but the actual content of the statement is pretty good. I've manged to cut it down to 3800 characters, but the guide on TSR said that the line limit was more important due to leaving lines between paragraphs. However including extra lines between paragraphs it's 2 lines too long. Are the extra lines really necessary? I don't really want to cut much more out as I run the risk of it not making much sense, or at least being not particularly articulate.