My dd is working on her personal statement atm. She wants to do Politics and International Relations. Her first choice of uni is St Andrews, but their course is called International Relations. She emailed them to ask if she could write a kind of supplementary statement tailored to them but they replied in the negative saying that her statement should be aimed at them alone and if it mentions 'politics' they will assume they are not her first choice and she will be turned down automatically.
On the other hand if she doesn't achieve their entry requirements or changes her mind, her Personal Statement will not be relevant to anywhere else.
Does anyone have any experience of this? Or advice? I'm sure in my day -old gimmer- it wasn't this complicated?....