Oxford Personal Statement: How to choose perfect topics (examples)
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- After my rejected Oxford application in 2020, this personal statement mindset change helped me get accepted to Oxford in 2021.
I always heard the personal statement advice 'write about what you are interested in' but I always felt this was a bit vague and not very practical. Then I came across this idea of how to approach a personal statement which really changed the game for me.
This change in perspective in what a personal statement really is helped me develop a clear, systematic way of choosing (and then researching) topics.
There are Oxford Classics and Oxford English examples in this video, but this will work just as well for any Oxford or Cambridge (Oxbridge) course, particularly humanities.
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - The problem with normal PS mindset
1:45 - A better PS mindset
3:30 - Oxford Classics example
5:59 - Oxford English example
7:27 - More benefits to this method
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really informative and great to hear the changes you made. hopefully this gets me into Oxford classics!
Best of luck!
This is the best advice I’ve seen so far!
Wow, thanks so much! I have made two other Personal Statement videos (analysing a paragraph) which may also be of use to you!
Are you saying then that for classics it’s essential to write something about The Aeneid or The Iliad in your ps
I guess nothing is essential but if you have done Latin or Greek A level those two respectively would definitely be the first thing I would think about trying to include in some regard. Which actual Classics course are you applying for?
Do you check personal statements
Check other reply :)
Did u get an interview when you first applied?
Yes, check out my interview video (2nd last upload) to hear how they went if you are interested!
@@Sam.Kramer Ah I see.. wanted to ask about applying for the second time but I suppose it makes no sense to apply again if you didn't even get an interview the first time around.
No that's not necc true at all. Classics interview 97% so there was no achievement. Request feedback and see what they say, do you feel it was the LNAT? If so, definitely changeable. If it was predicted grades, similar if you get better grades for real. If it was something like GCSEs, probably nothing you can do about it now. But most of the time it is something changeable for sure
@@Sam.Kramer I don't think there is anything wrong about my grades - they are probably as good as any grades can get. It doesn't make a lot of sense if it was LNAT cos for all the practice tests I did, I scored much higher than the majority of the candidates who were offered places by Oxford in previous years - unless the statistics provided by the mock Lnat website is inaccurate... And yeh, I have requested feedback and will slam them a GDPR SAR to see what has been said about my application... Someone says to me I had too much commercial law firm experience and Oxford dons despise that...
@@zachsullivan3626 My GDPR was useful, much more than my generic application feedback. Who knows but lmk what you find out. What college did you apply for?