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Personal Statement Examples

Search by subject, university, or UCAS code. One example often covers several closely-related courses - similar-subject hints surface those overlaps.

How to use these examples

Every example here is a real, successful personal statement from an admitted applicant, annotated by our admissions specialists. Use them to understand structure, depth, and reflection - never to copy.

All examples follow the UCAS three-question format used for 2026 entry onwards: three scaffolded answers - why this course, how your studies prepared you, and what you have done beyond school - totalling 4,000 characters.

Each subject is mapped to the universities that actually offer it - use the “Applicable to” filter to find Oxford-, Cambridge-, or Imperial-specific examples. Subjects like Medicine and the sciences cover all three, while the Imperial engineering disciplines (aerospace, civil, electrical, mechanical, biomedical) are Imperial-only.

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