Social mobility experts welcome change in which students will instead be asked to answer three questions

Fantastic news, imho.
Personal statements just felt like an extra thing that might cause your application to fail.
I’m 99% sure none of the technical degrees I applied for read mine, and I wouldn’t blame them at all.

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Good, it was bullshit. Tell me about the voluntary work in Mali your parents financed. Tell me about the work placement your family arranged. Tell me about the online company your family set up with you. The last one was literally a suggested topic for an Oxbridge application, the assumption was you’d have been importing and selling Italian food online as a 17-year-old, completely deranged. If you had shitty, abusive parents, then what?

    • intelisense@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Or lovely but poor parents. I hated the whole gap year culture when I went to University. Everyone carried on like they were so cool. No, you weren’t, you were just rich enough to afford flights and to do fuck all for a year.