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Hello, world,

Well, I say world who knows who will even read this. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked, so where to begin well I'm a 17 year old who has just successfully completed As, and is currently doing her A Levels.

I'm studying Maths, Physics and Computer Science and the truth is I really love them, well most of the time but that can be said about any subject. Last year I got a swarm for my As results a swarm of B's that is. (I feel like I should warn any future reader there will be more terrible puns so...) This year I want to do the best that I possibly can but then who doesn't, my dream would be to get AAA which would be incredible but more realistically I will probably get between ABB and AAB at a push but its always good to have something to aim for.

So that's a bit about me, congratulations to making it this far without clicking off! And now we can discuss the more interesting stuff. There are so many choices, good ways to revise, time management, UCAS. But I'm going to start with the thing that is currently most urgent. My UCAS personal statement. I've realised the one thing I haven't mentioned is my future plans, you see next year I would love to go to university to either study Computer Science or Physics.

The problem I am having is that personal statements are designed to be tailored to one specific subject, not two. This means that where others have been able to go into vast detail about why they love there subject and what they find so interesting about it I have had to remain very vague and tried to show my passion for Computer Science while trying not to put down Physics or vice versa. Overall this has resulted in a personal statement which is 30% academic and 70% extracurricular when ideally it should be the other way around.

So there you go that my current problem, I realise reading this back that this doesn't exactly have a lot to do with studying at all oops. More a way of me to express my current problem I'd be really interested to hear how other people have overcome similar issues. I will try to upload again soon especially as half term is approaching,
Thank you for reading all the way to the end xx

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Does your school help with the personal statement?

Hello, world,

Well, I say world who knows who will even read this. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked, so where to begin well I'm a 17 year old who has just successfully completed As, and is currently doing her A Levels.

I'm studying Maths, Physics and Computer Science and the truth is I really love them, well most of the time but that can be said about any subject. Last year I got a swarm for my As results a swarm of B's that is. (I feel like I should warn any future reader there will be more terrible puns so...) This year I want to do the best that I possibly can but then who doesn't, my dream would be to get AAA which would be incredible but more realistically I will probably get between ABB and AAB at a push but its always good to have something to aim for.

So that's a bit about me, congratulations to making it this far without clicking off! And now we can discuss the more interesting stuff. There are so many choices, good ways to revise, time management, UCAS. But I'm going to start with the thing that is currently most urgent. My UCAS personal statement. I've realised the one thing I haven't mentioned is my future plans, you see next year I would love to go to university to either study Computer Science or Physics.

The problem I am having is that personal statements are designed to be tailored to one specific subject, not two. This means that where others have been able to go into vast detail about why they love there subject and what they find so interesting about it I have had to remain very vague and tried to show my passion for Computer Science while trying not to put down Physics or vice versa. Overall this has resulted in a personal statement which is 30% academic and 70% extracurricular when ideally it should be the other way around.

So there you go that my current problem, I realise reading this back that this doesn't exactly have a lot to do with studying at all oops. More a way of me to express my current problem I'd be really interested to hear how other people have overcome similar issues. I will try to upload again soon especially as half term is approaching,
Thank you for reading all the way to the end xx

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I was reading @Chittesh14's Grow Your Grades blog and they said they called up the uni to ask about writing a PS for two subjects - you can find the post about it here, but maybe you should ring the unis you're applying to?

Also I changed the title for you

Thank you Fox Corner for reading my blog lol and tagging me onto this thread! I'm sure I can help @minisarell a lot with this issue as it is annoying and scary! Btw, it's only me doing my blog lol one person haha.

Also, Happy Diwali to you. Hope you have a great day and your life is filled with joy and happiness!

That's alright! Thanks for letting them know about how you handled it

Only put them and they cos I wasn't sure which gender to use and didn't want to assume

Happy Diwali to you as well! I hope you have a great day

I was reading @Chittesh14's Grow Your Grades blog and they said they called up the uni to ask about writing a PS for two subjects - you can find the post about it here, but maybe you should ring the unis you're applying to?

Also I changed the title for you

Hi,

I had a similar issue where I was applying for straight Maths at either two or three of my university choices and then Maths and/with Economics for the remaining two/three universities. I was terrified as students and TSR members had been telling me that I would be put at a great disadvantage if I wrote about Economics in my personal statement when applying for straight Maths and vice versa that if I didn't I wouldn't get into LSE or Nottingham for a Maths and/with Economics degree. So I decided to call up Warwick and KCL and they told me that this is totally understandable as it happens every year - as long as there is passion and interest displayed in the subject for the course that you're applying for, the personal statement is at no disadvantage (assuming you balance it out or talk about each subject a significant amount). So for me, it's either Maths or Maths and/with Economics, so clearly I am applying for Maths mostly so around 70% of my PS will be Maths and the remainder 30% will be about Economics. But even in that 30%, 10% will be about the Maths in Economics (Econometrics).

So, in your case - you are applying for Computer Science or Physics. So, if you are applying e.g. 3 universities to Comp Science and 2 to Physics, you should write more about Computer science slightly maybe in the ratio 3:2 like your university courses. But, make sure the balance is there and that the interest is clearly displayed in both subjects as you don't want to talk too much about one subject otherwise you will certainly be disadvantaged. This is clearly what I was told, I had to talk about more Maths than Economics if applying to straight Maths and that's what I did - but that's also because most universities I was applying to were for Maths. In your case I think you should definitely balance it out and if you need any more help on this, please let me know.

But the best option would be to call each individual university and ask this question regarding the personal statement tailored to their course - e.g. if you are applying to Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, you can call the UG admissions team in general or if you can find the specific one for Computer Science and ask them about how they would deal with this problem of Physics being in the personal statement - if they're alright with it and how they'd recommend balancing out your personal statement between the two subjects. Please tell them about the fact that you are applying to Physicsc at other universities and so it is important you write about it in your personal statement otherwise they'll be confused as to why you'd want to write it and you may confuse them further.

Also, Happy Diwali to you. I hope you have a great day and your life is filled with joy and happiness!

P.S. Do not stress about UCAS!



Thank you Fox Corner for reading my blog lol and tagging me onto this thread! I'm sure I can help @minisarell a lot with this issue as it is annoying and scary! Btw, it's only me doing my blog lol one person haha.

Also, Happy Diwali to you. Hope you have a great day and your life is filled with joy and happiness!

Wow this is some amazing advice thank you so much this has really helped me stop stressing about my personal statement! I will definitely ring up each university I am applying to in order to get there opinion on the matter but its nice to know that as long as I balance my subjects in my personal statement I won't be disadvantaged. It's nice to know I'm not the only one out there that is applying to multiple subjects for university, thank you for helping me out I really appreciate it !

Nice to find another GYG thread for someone who does Computer Science! The more I find the merrier! What exam board are you on and how are you finding it? (Especially the coursework)

Hiya, I'm on AQA for Alevel what about you ? And I'm really enjoying the course but the Course work is so much work I'm currently trying to get my GUI to work and its stressful! What programming language do you learn as we do it all in Python!

I'm on OCR!

I'm also enjoying the course but yes the coursework is driving me insane, I completely broke my GUI last night and I haven't been able to fix my code since! I'm doing my project in Java... I miss Python

Oh no, I was on OCR for GCSE Computing and I just remember it being incredibly painful so I can only imagine how awful it is at A Level! Good luck!

I'd be lying if I didn't say I love python compared to JAVA, and what exactly is your coursework??

It is pretty painful not going to lie!

I'm creating a program which performs Dijkstra's Algorithm (You may or may not have come across it) onto any given network. I honestly regret my choices so much

What about your project?

Yeah I know all about Dijkstra's Algorithm and that isn't exactly a nice thing to program I don't think I would even know where to start with something like that!