What's your main personal statement worry?

I clicked "something else" (and to be clear, I am parent not the person submitting the statement)

An issue we had was teachers offering conflicting feedback / advice, and sometimes contradicting themselves (and each other) as the Statement iterated in later versions. I suspect a lot of students look to their teachers for help, but I think a lot of teachers don't really know what they are doing.

Hi, there’s no one to offer me feedback for my personal statement, as I’m an independent applicant.

I clicked "something else" (and to be clear, I am parent not the person submitting the statement)

An issue we had was teachers offering conflicting feedback / advice, and sometimes contradicting themselves (and each other) as the Statement iterated in later versions. I suspect a lot of students look to their teachers for help, but I think a lot of teachers don't really know what they are doing.

Generally I would say listen to admissions directors load of information online-on course websites/YouTube & open days, and I definitely agree not all teachers offer good advice (unfortunately they will often say what they think is right but is often just a best guess).

Of course seeking advice from university admissions means you won’t be able to get personal feedback but they will tell you honestly what they want in a statement; parents & teachers can then help ensure the spelling/grammar is alright.

id also say, the personal statement is often made out to be a far more complex thing then it really is, in reality it should be very easy to write. Students should know why they are interested in the subject, and be familiar with their relevant experience… its really just putting this on paper.

Would it be possible to request feedback from admissions on your PS if it is rejected from any uni? Or is this only provided by some unis and not others?

I doubt many admissions offices would go down this rabbit hole, last thing they would want to do is see growing numbers of rejections expecting more & more detailed feedback.

You can ask.. but I doubt you’ll get much back. The other thing is unless you go through the UCAS process next cycle, the die has been cast already with your PS.

That's fair, I think admissions would collectively resign from the stress alone if they had to reply to every single rejection with personalized, detailed feedback of their PS

Indeed, it'd be more laborious typing out individual feedback than it already is to read and score a PS. It's not typically that useful because you're just opening up the door for some long winded debate, ("well actually, I think my extra-curriculars are relevant...").

There is also the issue that the more feedback you provide, the less useful the PS becomes because you're coaching people to hit all the scoring points and everyone would produce identical statements rather than something unique to them. There's already a huge amount of info out there.