It’s the season of UCAS Personal Statements. For Oxbridge the deadline is this week, for the rest it goes on and on until January. Dear me, what a grim palaver. Pupils have been toiling for so long to perfect this pointless document, it drives them nuts. Some have done a dozen drafts and it’s still useless, worse in many cases.
But there’s no way it can be done. Not well.
Selling, marketing yourself is hard work. You can feel a bit of a twerp. Pupils’ early drafts are often car crashes in crippled prose. It’s not easy finding a happy blend of a unique voice, a quiet confidence and a lucid fluency.
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