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What are some more things be should be doing to put on my personal statement for Law?

I have a week of Law work experience from Y10. I’m doing the average gold DofE, silver etc. I’m doing an EPQ aswell that has some relevance to law (I’m doing it on cancel culture vs government censorship -therefore it includes legislation and the impact). I may also do a Queen’s guide award. I know about reading books such as “Letters to a Law Student” etc and will be purchasing those. I don’t have predicted/ target grades yet. My GCSE’s are all grades 7-9 with majority of my grades being 8s. Is there anything else that I could be doing?

Reply 1

Username123ab

I just spent the vast majority of my PS writing about the books I'd read. Also if you go on the open university website there's free mini courses you can do, it's mostly just slideshows and only takes a couple hours but you can massively big it ip in your PS. And if your college ever has essay competitions or guest speakers then you can talk about stuff like that as well.

I think on mine I had about 3 or 4 books I'd read, one open university course, a translation competition I'd entered (I do law with French law) and didn't even win lmao, my entry was just commended, my EPQ and a tiny paragraph at the bottom that they forced me to write about my hobbies and non-law related stuff, and that was it.

Reply 2

Stiffy Byng

DofE is worth doing, but the most competitive universities are not interested in such things. They are interested only in academic potential.

Don't just list things done and/or books read. Explain why something has interested you and what you learned from it.

Good luck!

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