Top Tips for writing a Personal Statement

I've been teaching for well over a decade now, and in that time, I’ve supported countless medics, vets, dentists, biomed students, biological sciences undergraduates and a whole host of other applicants with their personal statements for university. Some have been truly fantastic, and undoubtedly would have helped them in securing offers from their first choice destinations – some have left a lot to be desired, lets say; not outright terrible, but missing the core purpose of what the personal statement is meant to be - the clue is in the name, something ‘personal'. Some statements that I've read have felt so detached, so based on opinion and random fact, as opposed to anything unique to the applicant. This podcast is all about me giving you my top tips for writing the personal statement. I am going to be making particular reference to medicine to give the podcast a framework, but the advice I'm giving applies to lots of different courses.