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politics and economics personal statement

hi I’m in year 12 and going to start year 13 this September and I literally have no idea how to do my person statement as im thinking of applying to joint honours courses (politics and economics). someone told me I should pick a “theme” for my personal statement to write about? a lot of the super curriculars I’ve done are based around poverty/inequality which was honestly kinda by accident but it makes sense as a theme but im not sure if it fully links to both economics and politics. also i kinda wanted to apply for economics and international relations at St Andrews, but I don’t think that poverty really links to IR. Maybe if I link it to globalisation? Or should I do super curricular/ extra curriculars to do with EU or war or something? im literally so confused rn any help would be useful or maybe if someone has examples of their own statement since I can barely find any joint honours ones. thanks!

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