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6 Mistakes that Pose the Threat of Rejection of Your UCAS Application
- August 2, 2018
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The competition is fierce and the road to glory is narrow. Perhaps the only potent weapon to counter such challenge would be an UCAS application. Students from all over the world pin their hopes on this admission process which also ensures that their application is received only in those colleges that have been shortlisted by them.
Since there are going to be a huge volume of applications, you certainly don’t want yours to be rejected for the most incidental mistakes. Here are the 15 mistakes that may trash your UCAS application.
Falsehood- Firstly, and most crucially: never, ever lie in your personal statement. If you do, it will almost certainly come back to haunt you. Don’t make up qualifications that you obviously don not have. Your interviewer might as well put you in a spot by quizzing on them. If failed, you are only going to lose your opportunity and face!
- Name of universities- Make no mistake. Your application is going to as many as six universities with all of them carrying same personal statement; those statements cannot be altered. Therefore, expressing your desire to study in, let’s sat university “A” may not go down too well with the other universities on your application. Don’t endanger your chances – no university names should make it into your personal statement whatsoever.
- Copying someone else’s statement- It’s your application and hence it is nothing to short of being sappy if you copy someone else’s statement; the universities have added these statement columns to better understand and assess your personality, goals, aspirations and career orientations. Therefore, it must reflect every shade of your persona. Besides, what if is the same tutor or university staff who is reading the same statement one time too many.
- Flattery- This is going to take you nowhere, literally nowhere. However good it looks as an effective way to win consideration for your application to study overseas, the admission tutors will easily detect your tactics that you have so beautifully camouflaged in your “privilege to study” in that particular college. Hence you are better off concentrating on yourself!
- Typos and spelling errors- Any typo or spelling mistake is likely to leave the admission tutors aghast. It’s better to have someone proofread your personal statement before it is sent off. It can become even graver as the university would put your educational in serious doubt.
- Irrelevant details and lists- You need not feel obliged to include a single thing that you’ve done if it is not relevant; be it classroom or outside of it. You may include a thing or two as your hobbies and achievement but no one is looking more details on the same. These elaborated details can even bore the tutors off. The details should be made as interesting as possible. As simple as that.
To make your UCAS application more acceptable and presentable, feel free to consult the overseas education consultants who can even proofread your application.