How many words should a personal statement be ?

Bear_Grylls

19

im just writing mine now

so how many words should it be around/max

cheers

Reply 1

lilmizzflirtie

9

i'm not sure about words but its not meant to be longer than 4000 characters with spaces.

Reply 2

Champagne-Dahling

10

Mine was 613 words, but as said, you go by character count (max 4000), or no. of lines (max 47). Whichever is shorter.

Reply 3

Orizon

Everyone I know in the year did personal statements which almost reached the limits of the number of characters allowed, although we were informed by the head of the sixth form that a good candidate could cut it down to 300 words, but I didn't want to risk not mentioning something important that could benefit me.

Reply 4

Jenii

15

A good candidate has enough to say to make it fill up 4000 chracters!

Reply 5

W0nker

8

Orizon

Everyone I know in the year did personal statements which almost reached the limits of the number of characters allowed, although we were informed by the head of the sixth form that a good candidate could cut it down to 300 words, but I didn't want to risk not mentioning something important that could benefit me.

That is a very general statement. I think it will vary for each candidate- each individual candidate has different circumstances and more may need to be said.