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Applying via UCAS for entry in Y2.
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Oooooooook, so, I finally bit the bullet and went to speak to my guidance tutor about transferring next year to Kent. He said to email Kent, which I did, and they said that I apply via UCAS, which I'm doing.
BUT I don't know what I'm supposed to write in my personal statement? Do I put the reasons why I'm transferring or the reasons I want to go to Kent or both or none or what? CONFUUUUUUUUUUUSED.
Also - do I have to ask my guidance tutor to be my referee? It says something about predicted grades so I'm assuming yes, but he doesn't know me very well and I'd rather use my tutor from college, because she does.
Oh I hate forms :grump:.
BUT I don't know what I'm supposed to write in my personal statement? Do I put the reasons why I'm transferring or the reasons I want to go to Kent or both or none or what? CONFUUUUUUUUUUUSED.
Also - do I have to ask my guidance tutor to be my referee? It says something about predicted grades so I'm assuming yes, but he doesn't know me very well and I'd rather use my tutor from college, because she does.
Oh I hate forms :grump:.
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I would use your current tutor at your current university - cos otherwise it will look a bit odd.
It's fairly unusual to do that through UCAS.
As for the personnal statement, I'd put why you want to do the course at Kent.
i would probably start by saying why you want to transfer, then move onto specifically why you want to transfer to kent. you could probably use a lot of your original personal statement as i'm assuming that talked a lot about why you wanted to do the course, just make it much more tailored towards why you want to do the kent course, and obviously briefly outline reasons for transferring.
as you want to transfer into the second year i'd think it would be best to put your current tutor at uni - you've already proved you're capable of getting into uni so i'd think kent will just want to see how you've done in your first year, hwo you coped with uni etc rather than what you did at school.
In such a statement, I would explain why you want to go to Kent, and why you'd like to transfer. I wouldn't go into too much detail about the second, however - the future is what matters now, not the past.
Kent uni exciting
I would however refrain from slagging off your other university to much - i would only use one or two scentences maximum to explain why you want to change universities and then focus the rest of your application on the positive aspects of why you want to move to kent rather than anywhere else.
If you just focus on the negative bits then you might come accross as a bit of a whinger and not that committed - me thinks.
I just think it's the same as in job interviews. When they ask why you left your last job you aren't expected to criticise that company because it makes a bad impression.
And it's not the uni, as such, more the distance from home and the fact that the course isn't *quite* right.
I wouldn't slag off the uni too much anyway since my guidance tutor (who's gotta do my reference) is the head of English & Creative Writing.
And no, Luby, I'll be in Canterbury . If I wanted to live in Greenwich I'd have applied to Greenwich uni .