Economics personal statement

How should a personal statement be organized? I have done maths, further maths, physics and economics. Should I add stuff I have done in physics in my economics personal statement though it’s unrelated? Should the focus be more on math? Id like to apply for Cambridge or lse or Oxford.

How should a personal statement be organized? I have done maths, further maths, physics and economics. Should I add stuff I have done in physics in my economics personal statement though it’s unrelated? Should the focus be more on math? Id like to apply for Cambridge or lse or Oxford.

Although I’ve just remembered that UCAS have scrapped personal statements from next year on. So you being in Y12 currently, you won’t write a personal statement as part of the application process and will have set questions you would need to answer instead. The structure will be different and it being the first year of the new format, and with it not being fully confirmed what it entails, there’s not much information and advice with the new format, but I presume it won’t be too different and might require the same type of content (ie. supercurricular activities)

No personal statements required? Seriously? So, only grades matter? How would they know about extra curricular done then. I’m applying to uni for sep 2026 cuz I 100 percent will take a gap year

No personal statements required? Seriously? So, only grades matter? How would they know about extra curricular done then. I’m applying to uni for sep 2026 cuz I 100 percent will take a gap year

They’ve replaced the personal statement with something else. This is because people who are more well off (ie. Private schools) get more guidance and help regarding what to write - so to reduce the disparity, they’re removing it and replacing it with set questions so applicants know what exactly to write about and it guides them more. It’ll still be similar but you’ll just have direct questions instead that you write a response to. These questions are said to be stuff like ‘what have you done to prepare for the course’, in questions like these you can still talk about supercurriculars and extracurriculars as you would in a normal PS.

You can find more about this new format by a simple search about it on UCAS’s website.

And this is not just for next year, this will now be the norm following this year (this year was the last application cycle with a personal statement), but the replacement is still quite similar so you’re still talking about all the stuff you would in a PS, and unis will use these to assess an applicant alongside the usual grades. There’s no change in the application process or any change in the weightage of grades or anything like that, it’ll be the exact same, and they won’t use just grades obviously.

And what’s the point taking a gap year? It’ll be the same format in 2026 as well, it’s not only for 2025 entry. There’s absolutely no benefit applying in 2026, and you can always apply in 2025 and still decide to take a gap year for any reasons if you wish, but I don’t understand why you would even think of that.

You'll still provide much of the same info contained in a PS, it will just be split out into specific questions to answer.

I would only become a home student 3 years later. I have just moved to the UK. Plus, I feel I could get a job during the gap year maybe.

I see. Well that doesn’t make things any diffferent does it lol

How should a personal statement be organized? I have done maths, further maths, physics and economics. Should I add stuff I have done in physics in my economics personal statement though it’s unrelated? Should the focus be more on math? Id like to apply for Cambridge or lse or Oxford.

You can't apply for Oxford or Cambridge.. it's too late I'm afraid (deadline 16th of October). You still have LSE though...

He’s in Y12.

The only thing is since personal statements have been around for so many years, there’s so many sources of advice and information as to how it should be written. But with this new format, it’s unpredictable and unknown what universities are really looking for since it’s a new format.