Personal Statement

[ChillySundays]

Can anyone recommend a service to check a personal statement?

I don't feel capable of helping (well I have tried but not sure) my DS and could do with some help

TIA

My privately educted son had to hand his PS to a teacher who was the PS expert for the school. She mainly looked at grammer and spelling but also got them to focus on stuff that ensuring extracurricular stuff was linked to the subject if possible and not just a spiel about how much he loves kayaking for an engineering application.
His dad, his grandad, hs stepdad and I all put out tuppence worth in as well (before it went to the teacher).
The school saw it as part of what we pay for. There's no point getting good exam grades if you don't get in because someone else can waffle more appropriate crap if you've done the same sort of stuff as them.

for most costs the personal statement matters very little, as long as it doesn't have spelling mistakes or say something really stupid (like my parents want me to do this course but I'm not that bothered).

Have a look at this video to see what to avoid .

courses not costs

a personal statement sometimes comes into play when you miss your grades and the Uni have to decide whether or not to make you an offer.

What admissions tutors have told us when I have been doing the rounds with my DC is that PSs should not be so much about the things you have done but what you have made of these experiences.Your thoughts, your impressions, your opinions .So rather than 'I visited The Plasma Institute' , you would talk about what struck you about it and why.
Quite a good thing to do is show how you took the initiative to follow up. So saying you went to a public lecture on cosmic topology which you found fascinating but couldn't follow the maths and then what you did to resolve this, or that you have been learning about xxx at school and on reading round the subject found the same principle could be applied to xxx