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joint honours personal statement?

i want to do american studies and history at university, but there are only 3 universitys i like that do that course. Therefore, i was planning on applying for BA History in 2 unis, and the other three would be the joint honours course. But, how would i go about tailoring my personal statement to suit both types of course?
Just make a large majority of your Personal Statement relate to History, and then have a second smaller section to do with American Studies (but include a few sentances about how you think the two subjects would be intresting as a combination together).

Lots of people do use combinations like this, so it wont look unusual.
Maybe mention a particular interest in American history?
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mollymustard
Just make a large majority of your Personal Statement relate to History, and then have a second smaller section to do with American Studies (but include a few sentances about how you think the two subjects would be intresting as a combination together).

Lots of people do use combinations like this, so it wont look unusual.


I agree thats what i done. I was applying for international relations and spanish. However only two of the uni's offered this. So i applied for Spanish and IR, IR with Spanish, IR alone (twice), and IR and politics. I got offers from 3 out of 5 (didn't care about the two i didn't get an offer from, i kind of applied to them to fill the space lol)
Hi! Im new to this forum. Working on my PS. I really want to do a combined honours degree with psychology combined with either Linguistics, English language or sociology however not alll universities i like offer the same combo's what shall i do and how shall i write my personal statement? Obviously the majority of it focuses on psych but what about the other two subjects...

BTW Aberdeen said that eventhough UCAS wants u to apply for a specific course, if i get into Aberdeen i can apparently change my subjects in the combined honours degree so if i applied for psych and sociology and dont like it i can change...is this correct for ALL universities....majorly confused!

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