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<blockquote data-quote="Jane Smith" data-source="post: 154837" data-attributes="member: 7481">I agree. I have seen the personal statements eg fairly recently for my two sons and I am a lawyer who asked me to glance at them (during the pandemic). Almost everyone with a 2/2 or higher who can pay the fees gets a place. So theirs were just about why they like law, their interests in it, anything they have done relating to it - One of them stayed in his university city for the PGDL so he mentioned why that city was where&nbsp; he needed to be, he talked about why he was interested in law, what he hoped to get out of the PGDL. It was about 600 words for each of my sons. Probably something added about why his university course gave useful skills to take over into law studies; bit about hobbies and interests and finally a bit about previous work - not necessarily law work but&nbsp; holiday jobs etc.This is not like the UCAS personal statement people agonise over for months. It is almost instead a box ticking exercise. I am an old lawyer and in my day places were rationed based on number of solicitors/barristers needed and I think I applied on the first day applications (on paper in those days opened). Then the system was changed to allow almost anyone who can pay who has a reasonable degree to get on the course so you really don't need to worry about the statement although it is probably a useful exercise in writing good English and setting out why you like law as you will be writing about similar things countless times in TC etc applications in due course, if not already done during a degree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jane Smith, post: 154837, member: 7481"] I agree. I have seen the personal statements eg fairly recently for my two sons and I am a lawyer who asked me to glance at them (during the pandemic). Almost everyone with a 2/2 or higher who can pay the fees gets a place. So theirs were just about why they like law, their interests in it, anything they have done relating to it - One of them stayed in his university city for the PGDL so he mentioned why that city was where he needed to be, he talked about why he was interested in law, what he hoped to get out of the PGDL. It was about 600 words for each of my sons. Probably something added about why his university course gave useful skills to take over into law studies; bit about hobbies and interests and finally a bit about previous work - not necessarily law work but holiday jobs etc. This is not like the UCAS personal statement people agonise over for months. It is almost instead a box ticking exercise. I am an old lawyer and in my day places were rationed based on number of solicitors/barristers needed and I think I applied on the first day applications (on paper in those days opened). Then the system was changed to allow almost anyone who can pay who has a reasonable degree to get on the course so you really don't need to worry about the statement although it is probably a useful exercise in writing good English and setting out why you like law as you will be writing about similar things countless times in TC etc applications in due course, if not already done during a degree. [/QUOTE]

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