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Does Imperial care about your personal statement?
(I originally posted this in applications and UCAS but I thought this might be a better place for it)
I had to write my personal statement in October in order to meet the early application deadline, at which time I wanted to do Philosophy. I only applied to Cambridge at the time, planing to add other choices later. I'm now thinking that I might want to study Engineering instead, and I was considering just putting some applications in even with my Philosophy personal statement. I have A* predictions in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Philosophy, so I was hoping that this could get me considered by some universities, especially having seen a couple of unis that don't seem to put much (if any) weight on personal statements (specifically King's and Cambridge). I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about Imperial's attitude to personal statements (and also UCL), and whether it would be a complete waste of an choice to apply there with a non-Engineering personal statement.
Also, will my lack of work experience or similar Engineering specific 'qualifications' (for want of a better term) affect my application in a big way?
Thanks
I had to write my personal statement in October in order to meet the early application deadline, at which time I wanted to do Philosophy. I only applied to Cambridge at the time, planing to add other choices later. I'm now thinking that I might want to study Engineering instead, and I was considering just putting some applications in even with my Philosophy personal statement. I have A* predictions in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Philosophy, so I was hoping that this could get me considered by some universities, especially having seen a couple of unis that don't seem to put much (if any) weight on personal statements (specifically King's and Cambridge). I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about Imperial's attitude to personal statements (and also UCL), and whether it would be a complete waste of an choice to apply there with a non-Engineering personal statement.
Also, will my lack of work experience or similar Engineering specific 'qualifications' (for want of a better term) affect my application in a big way?
Thanks
Ah. Well cheers anyway. You don't know about any unis that don't care much about personal statements for Engineering do you?
Ok, I might try that then, thanks.
Yeah Imperial definitely does use the personal statement. Some of Imperial Engineering courses are incredibly competitive, others not so.
Original post by The0ne0nTheLeft
(I originally posted this in applications and UCAS but I thought this might be a better place for it)
I had to write my personal statement in October in order to meet the early application deadline, at which time I wanted to do Philosophy. I only applied to Cambridge at the time, planing to add other choices later. I'm now thinking that I might want to study Engineering instead, and I was considering just putting some applications in even with my Philosophy personal statement. I have A* predictions in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Philosophy, so I was hoping that this could get me considered by some universities, especially having seen a couple of unis that don't seem to put much (if any) weight on personal statements (specifically King's and Cambridge). I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about Imperial's attitude to personal statements (and also UCL), and whether it would be a complete waste of an choice to apply there with a non-Engineering personal statement.
Also, will my lack of work experience or similar Engineering specific 'qualifications' (for want of a better term) affect my application in a big way?
Thanks
I had to write my personal statement in October in order to meet the early application deadline, at which time I wanted to do Philosophy. I only applied to Cambridge at the time, planing to add other choices later. I'm now thinking that I might want to study Engineering instead, and I was considering just putting some applications in even with my Philosophy personal statement. I have A* predictions in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Philosophy, so I was hoping that this could get me considered by some universities, especially having seen a couple of unis that don't seem to put much (if any) weight on personal statements (specifically King's and Cambridge). I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about Imperial's attitude to personal statements (and also UCL), and whether it would be a complete waste of an choice to apply there with a non-Engineering personal statement.
Also, will my lack of work experience or similar Engineering specific 'qualifications' (for want of a better term) affect my application in a big way?
Thanks
I do Mechanical Engineering at Imperial, and though it would help to have some reference to Engineering in your personal statement, I think the A*s in maths, further maths and physics will be a big advantage. With grades like that don't be put off applying, just be prepared to explain in interview why you wrote very little referring to engineering.
I think as long as you can explain well during your interview it's all good. I applied to 4 engineering courses and 1 physics course (physics at imperial). So my PS was focussed on engineering so they asked me why it's all about engineering and less about physics when I went for my interview. I just explained to them and I got an offer in the end so 
I think Imperial focuses more on your scores, so with 4 A*, especially in Maths, Further Maths & Physics, you still have a big chance. But you may have to choose the course which you want to study carefully. For example, Electronic & Electrical Engineeing may be more competitve than Materials Science.
UCL may consider both of your PS and A-level result and predicted score. But the engineering in UCL is not as good as Imperial (or even much worse??). Last year, my friend applied for Imperial and UCL for engineering with predicted score A*A*A. He was rejected by Imperial, but accepted by UCL with requirement of AAB or ABB.
So I think you are good enough to get a place in both, but you do need to call or e-mail them and see what they suggest you to do in this situation.
good luck!!!
UCL may consider both of your PS and A-level result and predicted score. But the engineering in UCL is not as good as Imperial (or even much worse??). Last year, my friend applied for Imperial and UCL for engineering with predicted score A*A*A. He was rejected by Imperial, but accepted by UCL with requirement of AAB or ABB.
So I think you are good enough to get a place in both, but you do need to call or e-mail them and see what they suggest you to do in this situation.
good luck!!!
It may vary between departments and might be different now, but when I went to the open day at Imperial in 2005, the physics admissions officer said word for word, "we don't care if you have a black belt in piano playing. We just care that you have excellent grades." Might be different now though as uni places are more competitive.
It's defo worth ringing up your department's admissions team to explain your situation and see if they'll let you attach a supplementary engineering-related statement. You've got good predictions for Maths, FM and Physics; so I wouldn't say you're horribly disadvantaged wrt academia.
But yes, defo be prepared to state your case a fair bit (interviews, etc)...and make the phone call BEFORE you send off your app. Make sure you note which admissions team member you're speaking to, and what they said, so if you do apply and they suddenly decide to turn on you (hopefully they won't though), you'll have solid proof that someone reassured you it's okay/not okay, etc.
I'm sure they'll understand that people do change their minds wrt uni - after all, recently in council we were discussing UCAS' idea of PQA (post-qualification admissions) - one major point that came up was that it's way too early for students to decide what they want to study before they're ready/well-informed/have their grades, etc.
But yeah. Worth a try, phone-call wise first anyway.
But yes, defo be prepared to state your case a fair bit (interviews, etc)...and make the phone call BEFORE you send off your app. Make sure you note which admissions team member you're speaking to, and what they said, so if you do apply and they suddenly decide to turn on you (hopefully they won't though), you'll have solid proof that someone reassured you it's okay/not okay, etc.
I'm sure they'll understand that people do change their minds wrt uni - after all, recently in council we were discussing UCAS' idea of PQA (post-qualification admissions) - one major point that came up was that it's way too early for students to decide what they want to study before they're ready/well-informed/have their grades, etc.
But yeah. Worth a try, phone-call wise first anyway.
Thanks to everyone for their replies, hopefully I'm gonna look at some text books this week to make sure I really like it and I'm not just going to change my mind again later, and then give some unis a call 
How will that be done , I need help on that
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