UCAS application and personal statement help 🙏🙏

I’m just about to enter year 13 and so should be starting my personal statement. I’ve realised after going to do volunteer work this summer that i want to do zoology at uni however i don’t do bio a level i do maths physics chem and further master and was planning on doing engineering before i went away. (+ mayb dropping further!)

I found at manchester that I can apply without doing bio so was planning on doing this as i still want to go to a russel group uni but a lot of them u have to have done bio to do zoology. My plan was to apply for zoology at manchester then for civil/environmental engineering at other unis however then i’m really not sure how to write my personal statement as i can’t really focus on either subject.

My first question is if there’s any other top unis i can apply for without doing bio for a zoology course?
If not, how to integrate engineering and zoology into my personal statement?
Also any extra reading or courses i could do with bio or animals so that the uni can think that i am capable of doing zoology even without taking bio a level?
Finally if there’s any extra reading i can do which incorporates both environmental engineering and zoology?

Thank you so much!

Reply 1

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by emma.34_

Honestly my advice here is to choose 1.
I would not try to combine engineering and zoology into a PS.

If you were to apply to two different courses I would write 2 separate PSs, submit 1 on UCAS and send the other to unis you've applied to the other course as. But, those universities may not accept a separate personal statement - so contact them to ask first.

It sounds like you need to do some more research about the entry requirements for Zoology on a wider scale, and it might be that you need to forget about the idea of "top unis" because it doesn't actually matter how high "esteem" an institution has. Most employers don't care.

So, do you want to do Engineering or Zoology?