Economics applicant thread UCAS 2014

Finished my final draft but it's 47 lines and around 3900 characters. I'm debating whether to just get rid of lines between the paragraphs. Nonetheless, I paid and sent it off so that I can get the references from school.

Odd my school got around 60 to russell groups and 1 of them went to cambridge and a whole lot of medics/dentistry. And my school is on the list.

So first you pay and send application, then the school sends references?

UCAS is a bit iffy with the character limit.

I had 4000 characters on the dot using MS Word, but this was somehow 12 characters too long on UCAS...

seriously ? ffs UCAS , im still 5 characters over the limit

i really want to get this thing done asap and send off my application by the end of this month !! problem is my Econ teacher keeps picking out loads of stuff in my PS and i just keep thinking " well i can't send this now , gotta re-edit haha " :L

yeah i know in my school , we pay and send and it goes to our referee who writes our reference , then we go with the senior management personally through the whole application making sure it's as good as it can be then it gets sent off i believe.

I would advise you to take your time and make sure it's perfect before sending it off. You still have about a month and there is no real advantage to sending it off really, really early. I was lucky that I managed to get personal statement done early so I thought there was no point hanging on to it.

Don't feel pressured to get it done quickly just because of some guys on TSR Good luck!

haha yeah true i guess ! tbh i think im quite close already , by my reckoning 2-3 more good drafts and i should be just about there !

what sort of stuff have you talked about in the academic section of your PS ? ( just really general stuff nothing specific haha )

By academic I'm assuming you're talking about what I say about Economics? That was about 4/5ths of my statement and I talked about what got me interested, books I've read (I mentioned about 3 in reasonable depth) and how I've related to them, my EPQ, my super-curriculars like RES and other things I've done in school etc. My last paragraph was about my other interests and how they've developed me as a person and what I've gained from them (not necessarily related to economics)

ah awesome , ive talked about pretty much the same stuff ( except i haven't got any super-curricular stuff there apart from a job as a Sales Assistant ) and ive talked about 3 books too , but 2 of the books were books i used for my EPQ ( related to economics ) and ive critically analysed a viewpoint that they differ on , is that something good or have i messed up big time there ?

I literally can not comment without actually reading it, but it sounds pretty good. It all depends on how you've written it and whether or not it is engaging. You have the core ingredients for sure though

yeah of course haha - just making sure the actual idea of what i was doing wasn't a recipe for rejection

yeah of course haha - just making sure the actual idea of what i was doing wasn't a recipe for rejection

Of course it wouldn't be

I've included 2 books in my statement but haven't talked considerably much about them. I mean I've talked about 1 or 2 sentences on each. Do you think there should be more books or explanation on them?

I've included 2 books in my statement but haven't talked considerably much about them. I mean I've talked about 1 or 2 sentences on each. Do you think there should be more books or explanation on them?

Statement is 100 characters over!

I'm not sure it's amazing. I mean last year we got 180 to University of which 53 were Russell group. No oxbridge or medics/dentists/vets though.

How's that compare to your school?

And the person that showed me this told me he had an AAB offer but was predicted A*AA. From the website though they sort of place emphasis on the word "may". So I guess even if you are on the list they don't guarantee the lower offer.