Any admissions officers who can help with a personal statement question?

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DS1 is re-applying to university - he got better results in his A2s than expected, so is applying to 'better' universities.

He's obviously having to re-write his personal statement.

He wants to do a joint honours degree, but his criteria for choice of university are fairly narrow, which means that one of his choices only offers a single honours degree.

His personal statement is written from the perspective of being a joint honours student - i.e. he talks about the value of both subjects and what he has learnt/what he enjoys about both.

Is there any way around this, re the one university where the joint honours isn't an option?

Bump for the morning!

bumping too .....personal statements are such a touchy area .....ds1 is one of a few who hasnt been told to go away and rewrite by the college lecturer (and thats cos I wrote it )......fingers crossed your ds get in .

It would probably be worth your DS getting in touch with the uni that only offers the single honours option to find out whether championing both subjects will prejudice them against him, or if admissions officers will still consider his application.

He is in a slightly different position from the vast majority of other applicants as he already has the results and therefore proved his ability. They are also likely to want to know what he intends to do in the year before he starts uni (this is for entry in September 2011, isn't it?), and how this time will give him the edge over those straight from 6th form, how he'll be highly motivated, etc.

Best of luck!

Thanks.

Re what he's doing this year, at the moment it's all so up in the air as this wasn't planned!

First focus is re-applying, next is getting a job - which he has said in his statement.

I would second him emailing the university and asking, better that than have a wasted choice. DD2 wants to do medicine, so can only use 4 choices for that (UCAS rule) and when she contacted some of the universities to ask if she would be accepted onto her 5th choice of Speech Sciences, they said no. If she had applied there, it would have been a total waste so I think it's really worth checking with the university. As MrsColumbo said though, the unis like unconditional offer students so that should help his application anyway.
Good luck to him :)

That's so naughty nickschick - glad I'm not the only one who's become over-involved!!!