After thirty years of the same format, UCAS has announced changes to its personal statement. Starting in September 2025, the ...

However, in a long-debated change, Ucas announced this week that the personal statement is no more. Instead of 4,000 characters’ worth of word-perfect, free-form boasting, applicants will ...

The lengthy personal statement students are required to write when applying to university is unfair and should be replaced by a series of short-response questions, a report has suggested. Currently, ...

The change comes amid claims that the personal statements favour middle-class students who may have better access to “high-quality advice and guidance”, according to Ucas. The 4,000-character ...

The decision by UCAS to move away from personal statements could also be a response to the growing number of students relying on generative AI platforms to write their essays. While the organisation ...

Ucas is changing personal statements, long the bane of teenagers' final year at school, for university admissions. Instead of a 4,000-character statement, ...

The new personal statement format will be introduced in September 2025 for students applying to attend college or university in 2026. The character count will stay the same at 4,000 characters.

Ucas surveyed potential applicants about to start their personal statement, and found more than three-quarters prefer the new three-question format. The reformed personal statements will still be ...

UCAS surveyed potential applicants about to start their personal statement and found more than three-quarters prefer the new three-question format. By Claire Gilbody Dickerson, news reporter ...

Ucas chief executive Clare Marchant said: “We have been working on options regarding reforming the personal statement since publication of our student-centered programme of reform in May 2021.

Ucas is changing personal statements, long the bane of teenagers' final year at school, for university admissions. Instead of a 4,000-character statement, ...

An education think tank has called for the Ucas personal statement to be reformed in the interests of fairness (Chris Ison/PA) The lengthy personal statement students are required to write when ...