Personal Statement tips for multiple subjects

W1ngkiu

Any tips on writing a personal statement around the subjects :biggrin:

entistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

Reply 1

Clearing and Applications Advisor, Universities Forum Helper

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by W1ngkiu

Any tips on writing a personal statement around the subjects :biggrin:

entistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

Top tip: pick one. You can’t write a PS for all three. And all 3 courses can fill their courses many times over with applicants who are committed to their subject

Reply 2

Kingston Grace

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by W1ngkiu

Any tips on writing a personal statement around the subjects :biggrin:

entistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

Hi @W1ngkiu

I don't personally have any advice for those subjects but I do have some general advice that may help you. Also hopefully my reply will help your post gain more attention so those who are currently studying those subjects can help :smile:

Here is a link to a post I have previously done with my advice for personal statements: Personal Statement Advice - The Student Room

I hope this helps!
-Grace (Kingston Rep)

Reply 3

Lancaster Student Ambassador

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by W1ngkiu

Any tips on writing a personal statement around the subjects :biggrin:

entistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

Hello!

It is possible to write a personal statement integrating all three subjects, but my advice would be to reach out to the universities you are applying for and ask if you can submit a separate personal statement for each subject, as this will be more relevant for each course you are applying for. This would allow you to be more specific about the work you have done for each course and why you would excel in that subject.

If this isn't possible, I would keep the layout of explaining why you would enjoy the course and why your A Levels (or equivalents) would set you up nicely for the course. As well as any extra work (work experience, wider reading, MOOCs) you have done show your enthusiasm for the subject.

I hope this helps and feel free to ask if you have anymore questions,
Lucy (Lancaster University Student Ambassador)

Reply 4

04MR17

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

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by W1ngkiu

Any tips on writing a personal statement around the subjects :biggrin:

entistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy.

Scenario: I'm Manchester Dental School (for example), I received 952 applications for my course and need to make around 115 offers. (Those are last year's stats.) Someone emails me asking if they can send me a separate PS as they've applied to slightly different courses. If I say yes (and I don't have to), I can still see the PS you put on UCAS.

If I'm a dental school I'm thinking "maybe they've applied also to a foundation/gateway dentistry course, maybe they're done some dental hygiene therapy applications". I check on UCAS and the PS they've put up there talks about Pharmacy! The PS you emailed me talks about dentistry, but I can see you aren't committed to Dentistry so I may not even finish reading your PS and will reject you straight away because I'm already rejecting hundreds of people who are fully committed to dentistry.

As PQ correctly advised you at the start, it's best to pick one as you aren't likely to be successful trying to apply for all 3.

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