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Solent University would like to support you writing the perfect personal statement for your chosen course when you apply to us. We appreciate starting to write one can be lonely and times daunting to do.

As part of your university application, you will need to submit a personal statement. This will be sent to all admission tutors in the University to read. We aim to offer you lots of valuable advice and guidance throughout this process to help you create a winning document that is 47 lines and 4000 characters (A4 sheet). It should reflect all your achievements to date.

A personal statement needs to demonstrate that you have the necessary skill set, knowledge, experience, attributes and most importantly passion to study for one of our degrees. So please don’t be afraid to promote yourself.

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We have valuable resources for you to use when preparing to write your personal statement and you are welcome to download our personal statement booklet,  ‘Lets Do This’. Here you can familiarise yourself with a template for you to work through when adding the content of your personal statement.

Here you can familiarise yourself with a template for you to work through when adding the content of your personal statement. We would also recommend using the UCAS mind map “Preparing Your Personal Statement” as this forms a great tick list to ensure you have everything covered.  

Feedback and reviewing are a critical step in writing your personal statement, therefore below we offer a service where Solent staff can check your draft personal statement, if it is for one of our undergraduate courses.

 

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We are pleased to offer a personal statement review service to students who are considering applying for one of our undergraduate courses.  As part of this service, we will look at your personal statement contents and structure for your chosen course for 2022 application entry.

After our review, we will give you some valuable hints and tips to enhance your personal statement so you can stand out from the crowd. We may also provide you with some additional supporting documents for your subject area. This could include an information sheet for your chosen course and a ‘Let’s do it’ guide that you can work through to develop your personal statement further.

So we can help you, please submit your draft, completing all necessary sections and clearly highlighting the below:

  • Your preferred undergraduate course/s
  • Suitable times you would like us to call you back. 
  • We can also arrange a virtual meeting on Microsoft Teams to review your statement. Please specify your availability to us (dates/ times). The meeting slot will be booked in for a maximum of 15 minutes and can be recorded if you'd like to watch it at a later stage. Please look out for this invite from us, incase it goes into your spam emails. 

You can expect communications from our friendly recruitment staff member either by a call or email within seven days of your submission.

Whilst this service does not guarantee an offer on one of our courses we hope you find our constructive feedback useful.

Currently we are only able to feedback and review personal statements from UK students however if you are an overseas applicant please feel free to contact the International Team at international@solent.ac.uk or use the information for international students. 

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Open day personal statement service

We are also available to check your draft personal statement at one of our on-campus open days. On arrival you can book for this service (an informal chat) at a convenient time for you and any of your guests.

We can discuss your personal statement in an environment you are most comfortable with, for example, with or without your guests. If you do have a draft you are working on, please bring this with you on the actual day.

Slots are available throughout the day for approximately 15 minutes. Where possible, we may be able to spend more time with you. 

At these events you can also meet our friendly academic and admissions teams and go through any concerns you may have about applying to Solent.

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