What are the top 5 things to include in your personal statement?

Hi All,

Hope everyone is well.

Here are 5 top tips to include in your personal statement:

1) Show yourself off - show your best characteristics within it.
2) Show your interests and how they have developed you as a person
3) Include any relevant work experience.
4) Demonstrate you understand the skills required to complete the course: communication, organisation, etc.
5) Any future aspirations

Read our blog for more useful advice: https://wrexham.ac.uk/blog/posts/perfect-personal-statement/

Please add any more suggestions below.

Matt
Wrexham University Rep

(edited 11 months ago)

Reply 1

PS Reviewer

I wouldn’t put any of those as a priority for inclusion in a UCAS PS.

Reply 2

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

Indeed, as someone that’s scores PS’s for a living, 3 out of those 5 are areas that I advise people to completely exclude from undergrad statements.

Points 3 & 5 might be relevant in some cases, but not for the majority of 17 year olds.

Reply 3

WrexhamUniReps

Official Rep

Original post by PQ

I wouldn’t put any of those as a priority for inclusion in a UCAS PS.

@PQ Hi 👋, thanks for your response. Please can you share some ideas that you think should be included? Some of these tips were taken from the UCAS website, e.g skills, work experience, and future aspirations 😊

Lauren
WrexhamUniReps

Reply 4

WrexhamUniReps

Official Rep

@Admit-One Hi 👋, thanks for your response. Please can you share some ideas that you think should be included? Some of these tips were taken from the UCAS website, e.g skills, work experience, and future aspirations 😊

Lauren
WrexhamUniReps

Reply 5

PS Reviewer

Original post by WrexhamUniReps

I've listed my recommendations for PS content across TSR on multiple occasions. I'm afraid I don't have time right now to re-write it (especially if there's a chance that the content would be plagiarised/"taken" for use elsewhere like you seem to be admitting to doing with UCAS content).

UCAS don't assess PSs, they provide an admissions service to pass the PSs on to universities who make decisions.

Have you spoken to the admissions team at Wrexham about whether they actively score PSs for any of their courses and if so what they score for?