AI and personal statement

I am a 2025 applicant and I am writing my personal statement (PS) now. Clearly I know the rules of UCAS that any portion of PS cannot be AI generated and there will be a check on this. I promise that I personally wrote the whole PS, but I tried gptZero and got 26% AI probalitily. I'm afraid that my PS would be false positive and fail the UCAS check. Is there any way to lower the AI rate of my work? Or, is there any way that I can try UCAS's AI detecting algorithms?

Reply 1

University of Bath

Official Rep

Original post by Don Chee

Hi there,

This is a tough question, however I would say that if you wrote your whole PS yourself, used personal, specific, personal examples of your experiences, how they benefitted you and how they apply to your subject, and you have nothing to hide then you will probably be okay. UCAS does have a guide on how AI can actually be used as a useful brainstorming/readability checking tool. I would say if you are unsure, reach out to your schools careers advisor, and the admissions teams of some of the unis you are interested in. I would stress though, that if you wrote it all yourself and it is specific and personal to, you should be fine 🙂 your work is your work!

I hope that helps

Holly
University of Bath

Reply 2

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

It won't flag if you wrote it yourself.

Same as if you ran you own work through a plaguarism checker.

Reply 3

Don Chee

Thank you for your responses.

btw I reviewed my ps yesterday. I tried to use more "naïve" words and reduces complexity of sentences and AI checkers says only 4%... it was really strange.