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University applicants blog about the journey to higher education for UCAS Connect
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logs detailing the ups and downs of applying to university, written by six teenagers from around the world, are now part of UCAS Connect, the digital resource for anyone thinking about choosing higher education.
UCAS Connect (
www.ucasconnect.com) already hosts UCAS’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, where experts reply to applicants’ queries in real time. It also offers advice videos on UCAStv, and links to yougo (
www.yougo.co.uk) the UCAS student network.
Now, prospective students can also read what other applicants are making of the whole process on the blog section.
Among the sixth-form writers are Chris Rowlands from Wrawby, North Lincolnshire, Zoe Hodgkinson, from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Emma Alexander, from Oxford, and Amelia Marchington, from Weybridge, Surrey Alina Ludviga is from Aluksne, in Latvia, but recently moved to Nottingham, while Thomas Chan is from Hong Kong Island.
They represent a cross-section of the hundreds of thousands of people applying through UCAS
every year and offer a real taste of what it’s like to be progressing through the six steps to applying.
UCAS Online Experience Officer Giles Ursell explains: “The blog page has been devised to allow UCAS applicants the opportunity to read and follow the experience of others in the same position as themselves.
“We hope the blogs allow UCAS applicants to share their experience, engage with each other and help each other through the application process.”
One of the writers, Emma, wants to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at university in 2012. She has gone through multiple drafts and reworked her personal statement several times.
Her experience has given her some useful ideas that other applicants should think about: “Firstly, utilise all 4,000 characters. There’s an urban legend about a pupil applying for geography who made their personal statement into the shape of a tree using appropriate spacing. It’s funny, but the content suffers.
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