How important is a Personal Statement for getting admission in a good university for your desired course and what does a good personal statement consists of?

Personal statements give students an opportunity to convince the admission panel of Universities to select them over many other students who may have achieved the same GCSE and A level grades as them. They are a medium for the student to express their passion for the subject they want to pursue and how their pre-requisite skills and knowledge can help them be an asset for the university. A personal statement for the admission panel is seen as a platter of what the student has to offer to their university and thus, if one of the key factors for university admissions.

As important it is for the personal statement to be expressing a student's passion, knowledge, skills and talent, it is also essential to keep the personal statement as precise and as realistic as possible. Students might go over the board with their personal statements so as to seek admissions into their desired universities, but it is important to understand that the admission panel's experience doesn't take long to sense fake attempts to enhance any personal statement. Talking about precision of personal statements, admission panels have many applications to consider every year and thus, they prefer precise personal statements instead of the ones with long anecdotes and less important details. Thus, any good personal statement is not formulated in a few hours or in a single attempt. It requires effort in putting the information in a flow that keeps it interesting and edit it multiple times so as to gain a precise and crisp version of your personal statement.