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Your personal statements are checked by medical students who are experienced and know exactly what a successful personal statement should look like 

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Have your personal statement dissected and annotated with comments and overall feedback, all within 2 weeks 

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How to get your personal statement checked: 

We offer a FREE   personal statement checker run by medical students from some of the UK’s top medical schools.

Our checkers are extremely well-qualified and experienced , and understand what a successful personal statement should look like.

By signing up with us, have your personal statement dissected and annotated with comments , and then receive overall feedback, all within 2 weeks.  

We ensure complete privacy and confidentiality. 

Lastly, we are all very approachable and friendly individuals , so don’t hesitate to get in touch via the forum, our social media pages or email [email protected] .

Upload your personal statement to Google Docs. 

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Fill out the Scrubbed-Up form, and make sure you include the URL of your Personal Statement on Google Docs. 

(Please don't edit the Google Doc until you receive an email from us with your feedback).

If there is anything specific you would like from the checker service- state this on the form.

Immediately receive an email confirmation from Scrubbed-Up and leave the rest to us.

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Your Personal Statement annotated with comments

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Want more help?

Unfortunately, we can only check your personal statement once but if you would like more help and guidance, check these articles out:

Reflection is perfection   (where you can read more about the DEALL framework)

Personal Statement Bingo

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The feedback you receive should be taken as GUIDANCE ONLY. It by no means guarantees you success in securing an interview offer. Your personal statement only forms part of your application 

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A personal statement usually describes your motives, commitment and suitability to medicine and evidence for these. A small number of universities in Australia require a personal statement/portfolio as part of their admissions process.

James Cook University

A personal statement is required and considered for interview selection. In the written application form, you'll have to answer four questions.

These cover:

• Motives for becoming a medical practitioner
• Activities (other than studies) that indicate your motivation to study medicine
• Why you're interested in a course which has a focus on Indigenous health, tropical health and rural medicine
• Any other information that supports your application

Find out more about James Cook University’s application form .

Macquarie University

A personal statement is taken into account for interview selection, but not for final selection. In the personal statement, you'll be asked to respond to a series of relevant questions.

Personal statements will be marked as either ‘satisfactory’ or ‘unsatisfactory,’ with applicants needing a mark of ‘satisfactory’ to be considered for an interview offer.

Find out more about Macquarie University’s personal statement in the GEMSAS Medicine Admissions Guide .

University of Wollongong

A portfolio describing achievements and experiences is required and used for interview and final selection. In the portfolio, you should include 'highlight areas of achievement, leadership, teamwork, service ethic and commitment as well as ties to regional, rural and remote communities'.

We recommend submitting it well before the deadline, as it can take a significant amount of time to prepare.

Find out more about the University of Wollongong’s personal statement in the GEMSAS Medicine Admissions Guide and the official university website .

While a personal statement is not a requirement in other universities, it is still useful to think about the topics covered in a personal statement for the following reasons:

• These topics and questions prompt you to think about why you want to enter the medical profession, which may be immensely beneficial for your medical school interview .
• Many scholarships (university or external) require a personal statement of some kind.

Are you interested in attending a medical school in the UK instead of Australia or New Zealand? Check out Medify’s UK Medical School Admissions Guide .

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Personal Statement Support: 6med vs Medify vs Medic Mind vs Medic Portal

Your Personal Statement is a chance to make a first impression on the medical schools you’re applying to, so you need to make sure you get it right. While the statement should be fully yours, there are still ways to get support throughout the writing process. From teaching writing techniques to providing feedback for your drafts, we have compiled some of the best support options available and compared them to help you figure out what will work for your needs.

Start here to review all of the options compared through an honest and objective lens.

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Best Personal Statement Support

Best personal statement online courses, best personal statement live courses, best personal statement tuition, best personal statement redrafting.

BEFORE WE GET STARTED…

When it comes to the different options available, there isn’t a definitive “best” option to pick, although some options will be more comprehensive or have higher ratings than others. Basically, it comes down to what support you think you need and what you expect to receive from that support.  

At 6med, we believe we provide support options for every medical school applicant, but we also get that we aren’t the only game in town. Different products suit different needs, so we’ve made this page to help you out with your research. We break down the support options provided by some of the most popular providers in the UK and compare everything about them in order to help you make your decision. This research is a huge undertaking but we’re willing to bet this page will help you out – you can thank us later!

If you’re looking for support for the other three parts of your medicine application, head to the 6med Compared Hub or check out our other pages in the series below:

6med Compared: UCAT Support

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Who Are The Best Personal Statement Support Providers?

Although there are a large variety of support providers available for your Personal Statement, we feel that these four are some of the best available (in a completely random order of course!):  

The Medic Portal

As well as this, there are providers such as Kaplan who specialise in tuition and UniAdmissions, an Oxbridge Preparatory School that offers a wide variety of programmes including Oxbridge and Non-Oxbridge Medicine. However, as there’s already a tonne to cover, we will focus on these four Personal Statement support providers. Let’s start by taking a look at each brand to see what makes them unique:

(Review data correct as of March 2023)

6med was created by expert medical student Ali Abdaal and aims to provide amazing and comprehensive support for every aspect of the medicine application. This is achieved through specially crafted materials, medical student-run Crash Courses and 1-1 tuition, starting from as low as £1!

6med’s Top Selling Points

– Guaranteed offer with the Complete Bundle

– Founded by medicine expert Ali Abdaal

– Medic Mentor Partner for 2022  

– Cheapest option for 1-1 tuition

– Full-Day Live Crash Courses

– Retake for free guarantee with every bundle  

– Brand New 6med Nucleus

– Pay What You Want for your support

6med’s Stats

– 1/2 Medicine Applicants used 6med in 2022

– 4.9/5.0 Average Course Rating

– 10,000+ students supported since 2013

– £100,000 given away through Bursaries  

6med’s Reviews

Trustpilot – 4.6 (267 Reviews)

Google Reviews – 4.6 (97 Reviews)

Although best known for its UCAT support, Medify has branched out and now provides support for each of the major parts of your application, including their specially made Personal Statement.

Medify's Top Selling Points

– In-depth Tutorials

– 100+ Personal Statement Examples

– 20 tasks to help you practice. 

Medify's Reviews

Trustpilot – 3.3 (2 Reviews)

Google Reviews – NA

Medic Mind is claimed to be the “UK’s Leading Provider of Medical School Applications”. The Medic Mind brand has actually grown to encompass many other areas of the university application process, including Law Mind and Oxbridge Mind. They also provide support and materials for A-Level students, so they really are a “one-stop shop” for application support.  

Medic Mind’s Top Selling Points

– Award Winning Tutorials

– 300+ Expert, Handpicked Tutors

– 98.9% Satisfaction Rate

Trustpilot – 4.8 (1,425 Reviews)

Google Reviews – 4.8 (388 Reviews)

Aspiring medics can access a diverse range of courses and resources offered by The Medic Portal, which cover every facet of the application process, including your Personal Statement. They provide a blend of digital resources and personalised support through online or in-person channels, catering to the individual needs of each student.

The Medic Portal's Top Selling Points

– Doctor-led, full-time courses

– Award-Winning Support

– Extensive free guides via their blog

The Medic Portal's Stats

– 40,000 Students Taught

– 500+ School Partners

– 5 Million Website Users

The Medic Portal Reviews

TrustPilot – 2.8 (4 Reviews)

Google Reviews – 4.1 (9 Reviews)

So those are the support providers, but what support do they actually offer? Let’s find out!

6med vs Medify: Personal Statement Online Courses

6med ps self-study bundle.

• 2-Hour PS Masterclass, featuring 20+ video tutorials created by Oxbridge Medical Students.
• 120-Page Personal Statement Workbook, filled with actionable writing advice and example Statements written by Oxbridge medical students.
• Access to the 6med Nucleus. 
• Pay What You Want! That’s right - for a minimum of £1, you will get complete access to the full collection of Personal Statement resources!

Medify Personal Statement Support

• 6 Lessons available with Step-by-Step Guidance. 
• 100+ Personal Statement Examples.
• 20 tasks/activities to complete your Personal Statement in 3 days.
• Full access until Mid-October.

Personal Statement Live Courses

6med ps crash course bundle.

• Access to the Full Day Live PS Crash Course, created by expert medics and run via a unique, interactive course platform.
• Full access to the PS Masterclass and Workbook.
• Pay What You Want! For as little as £5 you will get complete access to the live, full-day courses and all of the resources. We think that’s a pretty good deal!

6med vs Medic Mind: Personal Statement Tuition

6med super sensei ps tuition.

• Tutors from the Top 10% of their cohort.
• 1 - 1 Approach with 24/7 Support.
• Flexible Session Booking and Delivery.
• Tutor assigned in 2 working days. 
• Available for Medicine, Dentistry or Vet Med. 

Medic Portal PS Tuition

• Expert Advice and Editing Tips.
• Structured sessions planned by a top tutor. 

6med vs Medic Portal: Personal Statement Redrafting

6med personal statement redrafting.

• Expert Analysis and Actionable Feedback from your Personal Statement Drafts.
• Feedback in 5 working days.
• Express 24-Hour turnaround service available. 
• Personal Statement Inspiration Pack included, with 12 examples to help you plan.

Medic Mind Personal Statement Redrafting

• Feedback in 48 Hours. 
• Constructive, Line-by-Line Feedback from an Expert Tutor.
• Optional 1 - 1 Feedback Sessions with Tutor.
• Exclusive access to a PS Online Course and Live PS Bootcamp events. 

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And that’s everything! As we said, there are other providers available, but these are the primary methods of support that you are going to find on the market to help you with your Personal Statement. Now that you have a better understanding of what’s available, you can begin to plan how you want to approach your statement. 

Remember though – the Personal Statement is just one out of four major parts of the medicine application. Thankfully, we have comparison pages for each of these to help you find the best support for each and every obstacle you face during the admissions process. Check them out below: 

6med Compared: Complete Medicine Support

If you’re eager for more knowledge about the Personal Statement writing process, check out our free collection of guides on our site. And if you want to learn more about all the different ways we can support you, just keep exploring the site and find an option that looks good to you!

Thank you for stopping by and good luck with your application!

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Many candidates miss out on a place at medical school because their medicine personal statement isn’t up to scratch. It’s often hard to know exactly what to write in your medicine personal statement and how to catch interviewers’ attention. Watch this video to see how a medicine personal statement tutor can help you.

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How we can help

Response in 48 hours.

Whether it's a first, ninth or final draft, send us your personal statement. You can also tell us if you'd like us to focus on a particular aspect e.g. word count or work experience ?

A medicine personal statement tutor will thoroughly read through your medicine personal statement and give you their own analysis of what you have done well and what you can improve on.

After receiving our feedback, you should feel ready to improve your medicine personal statement. Feel free to send us another draft at this stage!

After completing all the improvements, the hard part is over, and you can finally upload your medicine personal statement to UCAS. Ah - What a relief!

Line-by-line feedback

Here at Medic Mind, we're extremely meticulous and our team of doctors will review every line of your medicine personal statement and ensure it meets our high standards.

Complete with an analysis summary

As well as line-by-line feedback, a medicine personal statement tutor will give you feedback on how you did in each of the key areas that medical school admission teams are looking for.

Write, revise and repeat

After reading our feedback, make the changes we've suggested and implement them. You're welcome to contact us anytime for further advice and also request another medicine personal statement check!

1-1 sessions with Skype Tutoring

• Discuss & Rewrite LIVE

Before your 1-1 session, your mentor will review your medicine personal statement and make some initial comments to make every minute count.

You get to speak to your mentor in real-time and allows you to go through your medicine personal statement with on-going feedback.

After the session, you can continue to edit the medicine personal statement in your own time and message your mentor if you have further questions.

Let’s work through an example

Reducing word count.

You could make this more concise by shortening the full paragraph (see example at end of document).

Work Experience

There's no link here between your MOOC and Work Experience - It needs to read more as a story here.

Spelling and Grammar

Your spelling and grammar up until this point has been perfect! Don't worry too much about using complex language.

Extra-curriculars

It would be useful here to link this back to medicine and show why this is important to have as a doctor.

Motivation for Medicine

This is a good start! However, you need to show how exactly this sparked your interest for medicine e.g. appreciation for human body.

Language Style

Good use of the active voice but just be careful that your sentences are not longer than 2 sentences.

How can we improve your Personal Statement?

Personal analysis.

Rather than giving you some generic advice, we'll work through what you've written and give bespoke feedback.

Reducing Word Count

The 4,000 word limit can be hard to maintain, but we will make you more concise in your writing.

Improving Language

All our tutors are experienced teachers who have excelled in the exam and implement our proven strategies.

Grammar Checking

Universities will reject a medicine personal statement with poor grammar - we'll make sure you won't.

Your medicine personal statement will be proofed by doctors with insight into what universities are looking for.

1-to-1 Feedback Lessons

You will be mentored throughout to ensure your medicine personal statement is up to scratch.

Our students love us

I'm so thankful for the help Shameena gave! She managed to cut out 1,000 characters from my medicine personal statement! She also gave some great insights into how I could improve.

Thanks to Medic Mind's Personal Statement check I managed to get invited to 4 interviews! They were very quick in their turnaround, and were able to address the areas I needed to edit.

I was surprised by how detailed Medic Mind were in their feedback - they noticed things my head of sixth form didn’t. I liked the fact that I could Skype the tutor and discuss the edits through with her.

I had my medicine personal statement reviewed 4 times by Medic Mind and they went above and beyond what I expected! They are a group of enthusiastic and professional teachers!

The feedback the medicine personal statement tutor gave was very constructive and helped me cut down words. They took extra care to make sure I understood the feedback they were giving, and implement it effectively.

I would highly recommend the Medic Mind medicine personal statement review. They made sure they didn't just rewrite my personal statement but instead gave some real individual feedback!

I could not recommend this website more! I bought a medicine personal statement check from many companies but theirs was the best. They also responded within 24h before my UCAS deadline

I had a two hour 1-1 session with Alice who was so helpful in cutting down my medicine personal statement. She helped me with my surgical work experience paragraph, which had a few lengthy sentences.

The medicine personal statement check happened so quickly - I got it back instantly. I have no complaints at all! Speed was good - I got it back within 2 days. The analysis was detailed and clear to me.

At first I was reluctant as I was skeptical that it was cheaper than most providers. However, I was very happy! My editor, Shameena, spotted grammar mistakes and helped me cut my word count

If it wasn't for Medic Mind, I would never have known how to write a medicine personal statement so well. They helped teach me how to make links between my work experience and my skills.

Our proven 4-Step Method

Step 1

Send us your medicine personal statement ?

Whether it’s a first, ninth or final draft, send us your personal statement. You can also tell us if you’d like us to focus on a particular aspect e.g. word count or work experience

Step 2

We’ll analyse your medicine personal statement ??‍?

Our experts will thoroughly read through your medicine personal statement and give you their own analysis of what you have done well and what you can improve on

Step 3

Write, Revise & Repeat ?

Step 4

Submit and Relax ?

After completing all the improvements, the hard part is over, and you can finally upload your medicine personal statement to UCAS. Ah – What a relief!

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The best time to start your tutoring journey is today! Speak to our tutors for answers to any questions you have.

Still got questions? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

→how long has medic mind been running.

Medic Mind first launched in July 2017 with a small team of 5 tutors and 30 1-1 Tutoring Clients. Since then it has rapidly grown to a team of 100+ Tutors and over 500+ 1-1 Tutors a Year! In this time, the company has overseen the development of sister courses such as Dentist Mind, Study Mind with Vet Mind and others to come in the future!

→I need my medicine personal statement check back by 24 hours can you help?

Yes of course! We run an express service on request so when you e-mail us your medicine personal statement let us know you'd like it faster and also the reason for it and we'll certainly cater to you.

→Can I request you to write my medicine personal statement?

Unfortunately not, no. As current and future doctors, it goes against our ethical code to do this so if we are requested to do this for your medicine personal statement, we'll have to politely decline.

→Will my medicine personal statement be secure?

Absolutely. The only people that will see your statement will be the medicine personal statement tutors - All your data will be encrypted and is protected by our privacy policy.

→I'm worried about the word count for my medicine personal statement - can you help?

Of course we can - Just let us know that you'd like to cut down the word count for your medicine personal statement and we'll happily oblige.

→I'm an international student - I'm worried my English isn't good enough for the medicine personal statement.

Not to worry - we'll provide you with a medicine personal statement tutor to ensure that your statement meets the English standards required by medical schools.

→What should I include in my medicine personal statement?

Your medicine personal statement should include information about your academic achievements, relevant work experience, extracurricular activities, personal qualities, and motivations for studying medicine. It should also demonstrate your interest and commitment to the field of medicine. Have a look at our medicine personal statement examples to learn tips and advice.

→How can I make my medicine personal statement stand out?

To make your medicine personal statement stand out, you should focus on highlighting your unique qualities and experiences. You can also demonstrate your knowledge of the medical profession, your interest in research, and your commitment to serving others. Using specific examples and evidence to support your statements can also make your personal statement more compelling.

→Why is a medicine personal statement important?

A medicine personal statement is important because it allows medical schools to assess a candidate's suitability for studying medicine. It provides insights into a candidate's motivation, skills, and experience and helps admissions tutors make informed decisions about their application.

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Introducing the personal statement builder

Applying to university.

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• Personal statement guides
• References for mature students

What is the personal statement builder?

The personal statement builder in the UCAS Hub is designed to help you think about what to include in your personal statement, and how to lay it all out. It also counts how many characters you’ve used, so it’s easy to see when you’re close to the 4,000 character limit.

All you have to do is sign up for the UCAS Hub and then you’ll be able to see how to break your personal statement down into sections, making it easier to arrange your thoughts. 

Louise Carr – Student Recruitment Officer, University of Liverpool

Personal statement builder features.

Once you’ve registered in the UCAS Hub, you can begin to order your thoughts by working through the personal statement builder. You’ll find it on the grid of content on your Hub home page. 

The personal statement builder breaks down the content you need for your statement into three key areas:

• Writing about the course.
• Skills and achievements.
• Work experience and future plans.

Within each of those sections there are questions to help you think of what to write.

• For example, in the first section – writing about the course – there are prompts like: Why are you applying for the chosen course(s)? Why does the subject interest you? 
• The second section , about skills and achievements, will ask you to include things about the skills you have that’ll help you, and any supporting evidence to back up why you’re so excited about the course(s) you have chosen – alongside other achievements you’re proud of and/or positions of responsibility you’ve held.
• The final section will give you prompts to help you think about any work or voluntary experience you have and how you can relate that – or the abilities you gained – to the course(s) you want to study. 

Once you’ve written your answers in the personal statement builder, you can preview and then export it as a PDF or copy and paste it into a Word document to save it, using the built-in functionality.

There’s also a link within the builder to our dedicated personal statement hub , where you can find guides with lots of extra information around writing it, including: 

• how to begin a personal statement
• what things you should and shouldn’t include 
• what to do if you have alternative arrangements

Also, even if you don’t end up applying to university, using the personal statement builder is a great way to practise writing about your skills and experience you can then use in your CV or an apprenticeship application . 

How to use the personal statement builder

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Don’t be tempted to copy or share your statement.

UCAS scans all personal statements through a similarity detection system to compare them with previous statements.

Any similarity greater than 30% will be flagged and we'll inform the universities and colleges to which you have applied. 

Find out more

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• Do sign up for the UCAS Hub to use the personal statement builder.
• Do use the personal statement builder to break the work down into sections.
• Do make notes about all your relevant experiences and hobbies.
• Don’t worry about your personal statement – we have resources to help you.
• Don’t feel you need to complete it all in one go – take breaks and come back to it.
• Don't forget to think about the things that make you stand out.
• Don’t be tempted to copy or share your personal statement.
• Don’t use artificial intelligence software or writing service providers.

Use the personal statement builder to get you started.

It’ll help you reflect on why you’re choosing that course(s) and what you can offer as a prospective student – as well as how you can succinctly get that information across to the admissions tutor reading your application.

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The UCAT is less intimidating if you've done it before. Experience the next best thing under timed conditions with our single-use, quality-assured mock tests.

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UCAS Personal Statement Length Checker

Please note: The line count may differ than the number of lines in the textbox above but when copy and pasted will match the line count on the UCAS application.

UCAS Personal Statement Requirements

• No longer than 4000 characters.
• No longer than 47 lines.
• Each line can be no longer than 94 characters. (Our character counter above already has a max line length of 94 characters unless otherwise noted.)
• Characters include spaces, carriage returns, and punctuation.

To see additional features including word count, paragraph count, space count and more use the character counter on our home page.

How to write your UCAS personal statement

The UCAS personal statement scares most high school students. Writing a perfect personal statement is a strenuous and unavoidable process. With roughly about 6 million university applications each year, officials need a method for filtering stronger applicants from everyone else.

As challenging as this task may appear, it is also your only chance to share your personality and eligibility for the degree program you have chosen. Follow our practices given, and you can absolutely make your personal statement up to the mark.

Start with a plan

Each year thousands of applications are received for the best degrees in the world and are best focused on the goal of making their application stand out from the rest.

Thus, planning out what you want to say prior to writing your UCAS statement makes it easy to write a convincing personal statement. Start off by making a rough draft, answering some questions like

• What subjects do you want to study?
• Why have you particularly chosen this path for yourself?
• What makes you think that you are best suited to study this degree program at the college?

Some of these points will form the backbone of your personal statement, so write them in a manner that makes sense to you.

Sometimes you want to create simple bullet points or use mind maps. No matter what you decide; your goal is the same. You want to clarify why the university should provide you with a spot.

Bigger Picture of the Degree

Talk about the course that you have applied to. How did you learn about it in the first place? What means did you use to deepen your interest and knowledge in this area?

It would be a huge plus to list the books you read and the meetings you have attended regarding the subject.

Please elaborate on your academic attitude towards the degree. What are your goals after graduating? What role will it play in helping you achieve your greatest ambitions? What sort of vocation plans do you have after graduation?

Write about your work experience and achievements

Your previous achievements are an essential part of your personal statement. Think about all the accolades you have received and the contests you have participated in. These can be in-school, national or international. Both academic and sports awards can greatly help emphasize your commitment.

Write about the important skills and experiences acquired elsewhere (such as hobbies) that can be chained to the degree of your choice.

Remember, you are searching for experience that shows why you need to study the subject that you have chosen. You are not just writing an essay about what you are doing in your high school syllabus.

Extracurricular Activities

Your extracurriculars ought to likewise be included in the personal statement. Whether it be a MUN or a cross country race, they pass on the message that you love participating in different events.

Likewise, it is really smart to discuss any expertise you have acquired through extracurriculars.

Discuss any leadership roles you could have held, as they improve your capacity to appreciate people on a profound level and put you across as a pioneer.

Community service is a plus in the UCAS statement as it shows a promise to a reason bigger than oneself.

You can link all these activities to your selected course in the best case. Be careful not to elaborate too much on extracurricular activities.

UCAS Character Count

There are some specific instructions for your personal statement that you can never ignore.

First, it must not exceed 4,000 characters or 47 lines of text (including blank lines), whichever comes first. If you do exceed this, the university will not get your entire statement.

So make sure your personal statement has a solid and decisive ending. It will look bad if you cut it off in the middle of a sentence after realizing that you have exceeded the text limit.

Instead, give each section proper attention, time, and character to plan your essay thoroughly.

However, while you are getting everything rolling, you ought to overlook these restrictions.

Tips for reducing the character count

From the get-go, you simply need to jot down all that you feel is significant. You will probably wind up with something very lengthy, but that is okay.

This is where you get to do some polishing and trimming. Maintain the focal point of your piece on the course you are applying for, why you want to do it and for what reason you are impeccably fit for it.

Glance through what you have composed until now - do you have the right balance? Cut off whatever continues a little to far, as you want to keep each point crisp and concise.

It is a difficult process to try to keep as much content as possible while keeping the character count low, so here are some simple ways to make it easier for you.

Avoid quotes

Read your personal statement and eliminate platitudes if there are any - for instance, 'I've wanted to study psychology since I was young'…The same goes for the quotations: except if they increase the value of your statement (which they don't most of the time!), it is really the best practice to remove them.

Make sure everything is concise

For each sentence in your piece, use the "so what?" rule. Does this sentence appear to be more reasonable for the course? If not, cutting it is best. This frequently happens when individuals write too much about their extracurriculars in a frantic endeavour to fit everything in. For extra analysis, feel free to use our sentence counter to calculate the average length of your sentences.

Colleges, notwithstanding, need to see a reflection and what you have extracted from your encounters; this implies it is normally better to simply discuss a few extracurriculars than to list many things that the reader is likely to skim.

Also, note that you don't have to use hospital or volunteer location names. This further allows you to remove the last few characters from the count.

Use colour coding

An easy way to see where you are losing most of your characters is to highlight the sections of your statement with different colours.

Check your language

We frequently invest a great deal of energy looking up big words with the expectation that it will make our work impressive. However, this isn't generally the best practice. It is, in many cases, best to cut these words for fundamental and engaging sentences.

I hope the process will now be transparent, and it will be more exciting for you as you embark on your writing.

How to use our UCAS personal statement checker

To use our tool simply copy and paste your personal statement into the text-box above.

At the top, you will see two metrics displayed. The first metric on the left is the total characters you've typed out of the limit of 4,000 characters.

The second metric on the right is the number of lines your text contains out of the max of 47 lines. The UCAS allows a maximum of 94 characters per line, which our line count feature already takes into consideration.

To make it easier you can click the green "copy text" button to copy the text in the text box. You can also click the red "clear text" button to delete all the text in the text-box.

Why use an online UCAS personal statement checker?

Reason number one: The character count feature in Microsoft Word will not give you an accurate reading. The reason is that Word does not count the carriage return (also known as the enter key) as a character while UCAS does count it as a character.

The problem is that this will cause Word to underestimate the character count. This could cause your essay not to be able to submit when you try to upload it. If anything it would be better to overestimate the word count on Word that way it will fit.

Our personal statement checker however will give you the same character count as UCAS unlike the Microsoft Word character count.

It can be helpful to see the character count in real-time as you are typing your personal statement. This way you are constantly reminded of how long your essay is.

If you are not paying attention it can be easy to lose track of how long your essay is and go over the limit.

Our tool makes it easier to be aware of the length and easy to cut back if necessary.

How many characters in a personal statement?

UCAS requires 4,000 characters in their personal statement. Use our personal statement checker above to see if your essay meets the requirements.

How many words in a UCAS personal statement

UCAS has a character limit of 4,000 characters. This equates to about 615 to 800 words.

How many words is 4000 characters?

4,000 characters is about 615 to 800 words. For more Characters to Words conversions, check out our Characters To Words Converter .

Does the personal statement character limit include spaces?

Yes, it does include spaces as well as carriage returns. Check your statement with our personal statement checker above.

Thanks for using our UCAS personal statement checker!

We appreciate you taking the time to check your personal statement using our webpage. As you know, this is a very important college application essay to get into British universities. UCAS stands for Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and is what the UK uses for the college application process. Good luck on your personal statement!