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How to write your UCAS Personal Statement
This week, I’ve launched a brand new course on Udemy, all about how to write your Personal Statement, complete with all the changes for 2026.
And it’s called, quite simply:
How to write your UCAS Personal Statement: Six steps to writing a compelling and powerful UCAS Personal Statement for your application to UK universities
Personal Statement feedback, university offers, and some extraordinary inspiration.
This week we look at how to get the best possible feedback on your UCAS Personal Statement.
We look at how universities might make very different admissions offers from those stated on their website.
And we get some inspiration from the incredible Malala Yousafzai.
Personal Statement Top Tips Part 2, chatting on Unibuddy, and the reality of career paths.
This week we complete the Top 20 Personal Statement top tips countdown, we discover a super-easy way to get all of your questions answered by real, live, current students, and we finish with some sage advice from a man who made chocolate.
Personal Statement Top Tips, subject spotlights and some inspiration from a former politician.
In this, the very first newsletter from betterunichoices.com, we cover the first ten of our Top 20 Personal Statement tips, signpost a fantastic resource for finding out about what it’s like to study different subjects at university, and provide a little bit of inspiration from Wendy Alexander, former Scottish Labour Leader.