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should I put dofe on my personal statement

so I'm in year 12 and doing my silver dofe (I have completed bronze). I was wondering if I should put my dofe experience on my personal statement as I don't think it will help me that much with my application. I want to apply to English at the Russell group unis and have loads of experience relating to English already, so including dofe will probably just take away the number of words I can use to talk about these other experiences instead. If there's someone who has done dofe and didn't put it in their application, or did but didn't find it helpful (or really just anyone who has had some experience with UK application - like a uni student, TSR uni helper, yr 13) please let me know as any response would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance to those kind souls out there who will take some time to reply to this message and help out a confused student.

(btw I'm only applying to the UK and not any other countries)

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bibachu

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by based_J

so I'm in year 12 and doing my silver dofe (I have completed bronze). I was wondering if I should put my dofe experience on my personal statement as I don't think it will help me that much with my application. I want to apply to English at the Russell group unis and have loads of experience relating to English already, so including dofe will probably just take away the number of words I can use to talk about these other experiences instead. If there's someone who has done dofe and didn't put it in their application, or did but didn't find it helpful (or really just anyone who has had some experience with UK application - like a uni student, TSR uni helper, yr 13) please let me know as any response would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance to those kind souls out there who will take some time to reply to this message and help out a confused student.
(btw I'm only applying to the UK and not any other countries)

If it’s not relevant to your application, it’s not worth talking about - especially if you would be wasting characters that could be used on relevant super curriculars. I didn’t do DofE but I did have many extra and some super curriculars that I chose to leave out of my PS, in order to use the characters on more relevant material, and it’s worked out fine for me so far. For reference, I applied to study law at 5 RG universities and received 3/5 offers so far and a Cambridge rejection (which they insinuated was due to a different factor in my application). Doing a DofE is an impressive achievement, but it has nothing to do with your academic capabilities, which is what universities will be interested in for English.