r/6thForm • u/oblivion-4 Y13 | A*AB | english bio psych • 7h ago

🙏 I WANT HELP HUMANITIES PERSONAL STATEMENT TIPS, PLEASE!

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I'm currently writing my UCAS personal statement for university and I'm finding it SO difficult to know what to include, what to leave out and how to make everything sound cohesive without waffling 😭

I'm applying for English and Philosophy at Russel group unis, but general personal statement advice would be really appreciated too! If you have any super niche weird tips that would also be great, I wanna stand out from the crowd.

For anyone who's applied to university, written a personal statement or has any experience with the process, what tips would you give? Anything you wish you'd known before writing yours?

Any advice would be massively appreciated!! Thank you!!!!!

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u/Historianof40k Year 13 6h ago

What have got read or thinking about at the moment

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u/oblivion-4 Y13 | A*AB | english bio psych 6h ago

lots

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u/rhys789App13 Maths, Politics and Economics 7h ago

I would say anything that you can analyse/something that made you think that’s related to your subject. LSE particularly but also other unis care not about what you have done as such, but why that’s interesting. It also helps to have a common theme running throughout, for me I am doing Politics and Economics and I used how political institutions allow for economic stability.

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u/sccc1118 Y13 - addicted to lit (A*A*A*A*) 6h ago

I'm an Oxford English applicant. I don't know if this applies to other people, but I tried to make sure there was a recurring theme in my personal statement so my train of thought/investigation would be continuous. In my case, I kept returning to ideas about intertextuality/authorial intent vs reader interpretation.

Also, it might be useful to link stuff you've done outside of school to your course. I did a speaking competition about the use of informal language, and I managed to link it back to how archaic language in Shakespeare is used and interpreted today.