Mistake on PS

I made a punctuation mistake on my personal statement and I need to change it. I sent my form on 2nd November, and I haven't received my welcome letter yet, so I'm assuming it hasn't been processed yet. If I contact UCAS will they correct the mistake for me...or not? x

Reply 1

Bdarnell

If your referee has approved your application and sent it, UCAS cannot change your personal statement. Sorry.

Reply 2

bright star

Try, phone them up NOW!!! (or when they open tomorrow moring at least). No harm in asking.

Reply 3

N9ne

If it's a tiny punctuation mistake and you're not applying for English, you should be okay?

Reply 4

Miss_Mischief

I am applying for English though- that's why I'm so worried! :eek:

I put a semi colon when I should have put a comma...argh! I'm so stupid!

I'll phone UCAS tomorrow though and see what they say.

Reply 5

Juno

People have said that the UCAS helpine people sometimes aren't that great, so you;ve got to consider the possibility that they may make it worse.

Reply 6

jb_sweden

OffT:

you should come live here in Sweden and learn Swedish. The punctuation rules are quite liberal. In fact, on a government webpage covering the Swedish language you can read some few rules on comma-rules, but also something like "however, in general, you can use comma whenever you feel like doing so, there are really no specific rules".

And besides, you close-to-never use semi-colon in Swedish!

Reply 7

Knogle

AFAIK, UCAS will not change your personal statement once your school coordinator has approved and sent your application to them. You have to draft a new PS and send it to each university that you applied to individually.

It's hard work, but worth it of course.

Reply 8

fonzievision

The personal statement is not testing how you write. The personal statement is trying to figure you out as a person. While it needs to be coherent, especially for an English student, a semi-colon instead of a comma is not going to make or break it. Don't worry.