Universities

Every year, I work with high-achieving Year 12 students who are quietly terrified of one thing: the personal statement. Not because they cannot write.Not because they lack ability. But because they believe it must be perfect. So they procrastinate. Or they redraft it endlessly in pursuit of something that sounds “impressive enough.” Or they strip out their own voice trying to sound more academic, more intellectual, more Oxbridge. By the time they are finished, it no longer so