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Biological natural sciences: what is relevant to include in your personal statement?

Heya! I’m a year 12 student who’s looking to apply for biological natural sciences, and had a question when it comes to what to include in your personal statement. I know much of it should be about biology-related things you have done, but would it be relevant or a waste of words to include a bit about the things I’ve read/learnt about chemistry? E.g things about thermodynamics and entropy and heat (beyond the A-level curriculum) or is this irrelevant and better to keep the personal statement solely about biology? I understand that natural sciences is multidisciplinary as well as other courses such as biochemistry, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice on my question about if its worth including things I’ve learnt about ‘pure’ chemistry or if I’d be wasting my words on the personal statement/ does this add anything to my P.S.
thanks!! 🩷

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my advice would be to read through examples of Nat sci personal statements

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by DerDracologe
my advice would be to read through examples of Nat sci personal statements

Thank you!! Do you know where I can find them?

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by Yoshpou
Thank you!! Do you know where I can find them?

Uni compare and studential.com

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by DerDracologe
Uni compare and studential.com

Thanks so much for ur help <33 will take a look at these
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by Yoshpou
Heya! I’m a year 12 student who’s looking to apply for biological natural sciences, and had a question when it comes to what to include in your personal statement. I know much of it should be about biology-related things you have done, but would it be relevant or a waste of words to include a bit about the things I’ve read/learnt about chemistry? E.g things about thermodynamics and entropy and heat (beyond the A-level curriculum) or is this irrelevant and better to keep the personal statement solely about biology? I understand that natural sciences is multidisciplinary as well as other courses such as biochemistry, so I was wondering if anyone had any advice on my question about if its worth including things I’ve learnt about ‘pure’ chemistry or if I’d be wasting my words on the personal statement/ does this add anything to my P.S.
thanks!! 🩷

Perfectly reasonable and relevant if you motivate it with biological examples or contexts. Plenty of ways thermodynamics and related topics are relevant in bioscience contexts.

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by artful_lounger
Perfectly reasonable and relevant if you motivate it with biological examples or contexts. Plenty of ways thermodynamics and related topics are relevant in bioscience contexts.

Ahhh ok i see what you mean! Thank youu, I’ll definitely keep this in mind.

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