Uni Application - Starting a Personal Statement

[Gall1987]

Hi

I am writing my personal statement for University and I am really struggling of how to start it.

I know the aim is to get the admissions tutor interested so they want to read on but it's always the first bit that I struggle with.

I am looking at studying Computing/Computer Science at mid-range Uni's. I was going to start it stating why I was interested in Computing but looking around a few sites it looks as though the weak statements have started by putting something like "I love Computing because..."

Anybody any ideas on how they would start one or has anybody completed one in the last few years and got any tips?

Thanks for any help

 

[Gall1987]

I've read a few and thought they were pretty good, only told be told they are bad examples!

I'm quite like Forensic Computing and would like to get in to that but not enough to just Forensic Computing. That's why I've picked Computing.

Another thing that has confused me is that at some Uni's they only do Computer Science and others do Computing and Computer Science. That's fair enough but the some Uni's have the same UCAS course code but one calls it Computing and the other calls it Computer Science!

I'm not looking forward to writing it at all, but hopefully once I've started it will be easy enough.

 

[Gall1987]

I think Computing will be more suited then. I wouldn't say I have one area that I like over others but I've been a few open days and read a lot about forensic and that sounds very interesting but I also like web management and the software side of things.