Hi All, Finally starting to see the light of day with this application. I have done my 16 days experience, working through drafts of my personal statement and it's just the personal statements to finally get. That is my question - do we need open references (just sent to me to add to my application) or is there an official channel through UCAS that referees need to send it to? Someone mentioned too about personal statements and having gone through loads of examples and run it by recent students and teachers, I think you can over think it. It's only an A4 page long (47 lines of 11 point writing) and realistically how much can you do in that? I also had a bit of an issue with comparing schools as I did 6 days in a Private all boys school to go with my ten in a Secondary school, the classes were smaller, it was more discussion led, more fluid and frankly was a bit more advanced. I know you don't want to appear to be criticising any school (the secondary I went to was excellent also) but it's about showing you can adapt and teach to the class according to the environment and ability is it not?