Each week, St. Clare's Careers and Higher Education Advisor Melanie Moorhouse creates a Careers Newsletter for our students. Providing a wealth of information from application deadlines to dates of upcoming talks at St. Clare's, each newsletter is full of helpful tips and advice for our IB students.
With the UCAS deadline looming, last week's newsletter featured the following top tips for writing a personal statement:
- Write a letter expressing your point of view and communicating your thoughts, not an essay.
- Open with your genuine perspective on why the subject is so interesting to you.
- Be specific not general.
- Think about your structure: is it logical?
- Keep description to a minimum.
- You don’t need to include a future career plan or your IB
subjects unless you want to.
For more helpful advice, please click here to visit St. Clare's careers blog.