Imperial CS with no math/cs competitions (UKMT, Bebras, etc)

I will hopefully be applying to Imperial for computer science this year and was wondering if they would look down on me for not having any math/cs competitions such as the UKMT in my personal statement. All the recent personal statements I have seen online that got into Imperial CS seem to have awards in these competitions.

I have actually taken part in the UKMT before and in the UK Bebras, I received a Silver award in the UKMT Senior Challenge and a Merit in the UK Bebras. I am not sure if it is worth mentioning these as they arent as good as the awards I have seen on many other personal statements. Would it be better to just say I have participated in these competitions?

If anyone has received an offer to Imperial for Computer Science without mentioning competitions please could you let me know?

Reply 1

lesgo21

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Original post by MayOM1

I will hopefully be applying to Imperial for computer science this year and was wondering if they would look down on me for not having any math/cs competitions such as the UKMT in my personal statement. All the recent personal statements I have seen online that got into Imperial CS seem to have awards in these competitions.

I have actually taken part in the UKMT before and in the UK Bebras, I received a Silver award in the UKMT Senior Challenge and a Merit in the UK Bebras. I am not sure if it is worth mentioning these as they arent as good as the awards I have seen on many other personal statements. Would it be better to just say I have participated in these competitions?

If anyone has received an offer to Imperial for Computer Science without mentioning competitions please could you let me know?

it is definitely better to say what awards you have received in those competitions than just saying you participated.

Reply 2

MayOM1

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Original post by lesgo21

it is definitely better to say what awards you have received in those competitions than just saying you participated.

Yeah but they aren't as impressive as the awards I've seen other people get who get into imperial for cs. For example in every recent succesful personal statement i've read so far for imperial, everyone has achieved gold in the UKMT Senior challenge. I feel like it would be better to just not mention the competition at all.

Reply 3

lesgo21

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Original post by MayOM1

Yeah but they aren't as impressive as the awards I've seen other people get who get into imperial for cs. For example in every recent succesful personal statement i've read so far for imperial, everyone has achieved gold in the UKMT Senior challenge. I feel like it would be better to just not mention the competition at all.

You don't have to mention it if you don't want to. At the end of the day, you are just trying to sell yourself as much as possible in the 47 lines and 4000 characters.

Reply 4

MayOM1

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Original post by lesgo21

You don't have to mention it if you don't want to. At the end of the day, you are just trying to sell yourself as much as possible in the 47 lines and 4000 characters.

yeah ur right, but im just wondering if its better to mention I took part in these competitons, say the awards i got in them or to just not mention them at all.

Reply 5

cooldude75

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Original post by MayOM1

I will hopefully be applying to Imperial for computer science this year and was wondering if they would look down on me for not having any math/cs competitions such as the UKMT in my personal statement. All the recent personal statements I have seen online that got into Imperial CS seem to have awards in these competitions.

I have actually taken part in the UKMT before and in the UK Bebras, I received a Silver award in the UKMT Senior Challenge and a Merit in the UK Bebras. I am not sure if it is worth mentioning these as they arent as good as the awards I have seen on many other personal statements. Would it be better to just say I have participated in these competitions?

If anyone has received an offer to Imperial for Computer Science without mentioning competitions please could you let me know?

what personal statements have you been looking at

Reply 6

MayOM1

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Original post by cooldude75

what personal statements have you been looking at

On youtube and i found a folder with some recent ones. Im ignoring old ones from many years ago since its gotten more competitive than it was back then.