Meeting 6

Aims: Draft personal statement

• Two thirds about why you love the course, one third on other things about you that make you a great candidate for university

• What interests them about the courses they are looking at?

• What reading have they done?

• Consider work experience and write the skills gained

• Use the UCAS site for advice and Pure Potential website has examples of good personal statements

• Are students registered on the UCAS website? If you have time create a dummy account on UCAS to see the process for yourself, bear in mind that students need to pay £15 to apply, this is either by credit or debit card, however some schools allow students to pay them.

For next meeting:

• Students need to have completed the personal statements.

• students needto have chosen their 4 or 4 university choices including at least one that they would get into with their current AS grades