personal statement writing service review

personal statement writing service review

Personal Statement Writing Services: A Comprehensive Review

1. Introduction

I believe that all students would agree that a personal statement is an important part of the college application as it helps the admission committee to know who you are and sometimes, you would probably need it as a supplemental document. However, not everyone is born with the ability to write compelling essays; for the students whose talents are more in other areas such as math or biology, it could really become a challenge for them to strike a balance between those activities and writing. Moreover, there could also be some exceptional cases, for example, a friend of mine had only one month left before the application deadline and he has not yet started on his personal statement yet because he had been busy with IB and IGCSE for the fall semester. Well, you’re great! Well, then what is a better choice than getting it professionally done? I myself have once used a self-claimed “leading” personal statement writing service and I would like to tell you that the decision was not easy. I was struggling among the tight schedule of the terminal year of IB, a bunch of college applications, and the biology research I was doing and never did it come up to me that I should seek help from those services. However, I was terrified by the notion of rejection and I could not afford to miss the application cycle so I thought perhaps it is the time to get myself out of the comfort zone.

2. Factors to Consider When Choosing a Personal Statement Writing Service

One might be tempted to choose a personal statement writing service based on a recommendation from a friend or a random online search. While these are valid ways to achieve an optimal one, your decision-making process must be guided by a comprehensive evaluation of the options available to you. This section explores some of the key factors that you should consider. First and foremost, you should take the time to review the company’s website. Not only will this provide information on the services offered, it will also give you an insight into the ethos of the company. You should be able to see a mission statement and a customer charter as well as details of any quality accreditations and awards. If this information is not available, do not be afraid to ask the company for it. You should also check whether the company has a social media profile. Nowadays, many companies use platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to engage with their customers and to provide information and updates. By looking at the company’s posts, customer reviews and engagement, you can build up a picture of the company’s reputation and customer service. It is also important to review the individual profiles of the company’s professional writers. A company that relies on the experience and skills of its writers will be happy to provide details of their professional qualifications and background. This provides an assurance that your personal statement is in the hands of someone who is not only an experienced writer but also has an insight into what admissions tutors are looking for. Equally, work produced by someone with a background in a particular discipline or who has experience of the admissions process is likely to be of a high standard. Finally, do not forget to carry out some basic checks. In the UK, for example, all companies that handle personal data or offer writing or consultancy services have to be registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office. A company that does not appear on the register might not be a genuine company, might not handle your personal data lawfully or, in the worst case scenario, might actually be a fraudulent operator. Similarly, companies should provide details of their registration with Companies House. If a company claims to be a limited company, you can look it up using the company registration number on the company’s website. If the name and the registration number do not match, this could be a sign that the company is trying to mislead customers and is not a legitimate organisation.

3. Top Personal Statement Writing Service Providers

Essay Writing Service UK: Although the website is mainly for providing essay writing services in UK, trained professionals also specifically help clients at every stage of writing their personal statement. Some clients may get afraid of the very competitive environment at the applying for university level especially for the recent reduction of places (last year’s rise in applications). At the undergraduate level, the company focuses on offering an all-inclusive solution to the problems of personal statements. The service is relatively cheaper compared to UCAS and Oxbridge, and it also provides a range of free features. Clients can communicate with the writer and progress of the work will be updated through email or mobile phone through the SMS service. There is also a customer support service available between 9am-10pm which provides instant assistance on any issues.

Oxbridge Personal Statements: The company prides itself on the most advanced personal statement service in the industry. It exclusively employs admissions tutors from the top Oxbridge and medical schools in the world, many of whom sit on the admissions panel in their respective colleges. As a result, the company can provide specific, expert help with personal statements for both UK and overseas procedures. In addition, it provides additional features such as interview practice and we also specialize in the Oxbridge initial teacher training application support.

UCAS Personal Statement: This writing service focuses on creating top-notch personal statements for students applying to UCAS. It can boast of having the most skilled and experienced writers in the industry, all of whom are professionals from different fields. Its unique feature is the communication personal statement. Clients can see the progress of their writing and offer their contribution. This ensures that the statement is personal and tailored to the client’s needs and thus, the quality is high.

4. Pros and Cons of Using Personal Statement Writing Services

Writing a personal statement can be daunting. With so much debate surrounding the ethical implications of using personal statement writing services and the real likelihood of being accepted for a place on a course, students completely overlook the fact that UCAS personal statements are only an exercise and the student hasn’t even started work towards their degree yet! The reality is that personal statement writing services can be hugely beneficial to students. It’s also important for people to know that personal statements are not the only deciding factor for the selection panel. In the past, I have used a company called Oxbridge Personal Statements (this is also discussed in the “Review of Oxbridge Personal Statements” document) who offer a range of services from critiquing an existing statement to the full service which includes a consultation and writing a brand new statement based on the students answers to tailored questions. One of the best things about using these services is the fact that you have a professional who can give you invaluable insight into writing your personal statement. If anything, you can use the review process to test what you have written and how you are selling yourself. The consultant will always act within the bounds of the law, ensuring that the personal statement is written by the student alone and tailored to their strengths, but having feedback from someone who does this for a living is an invaluable asset for anyone- regardless of where they are in the world with their own personal statement. This experience is something that is tough to find elsewhere and the reality is that students don’t have easy access to modern, first-world resources and experts in the field that can really help to develop a student’s potential as a person and as a student. However, as will be discussed later, a major flaw of using professional writing services is that it can lead to accusations of plagiarism. There is always a risk that students’ personal statements may not be unique and accidentally, they self-plagiarize work- something which universities take very seriously. Some universities have already introduced software that aims to automatically detect personal statement plagiarism. It has also been suggested that some admissions tutors may start routinely using online searches to identify personal statements that have been copied.

5. Conclusion

Now that I have close to 30,000 words on the specificities of personal statements and the ways in which these may work, act, and appear, it feels fitting to end this book on a very simple note – we have achieved the final goal of identifying current practices and beginning to propose a series of systems and support technologies in order to link these practices and improve the interactivity of personalisation. These steps should give me everything that I will get from the research. First and foremost, are the findings on personal statement creation which have given me a clear understanding of the current practices, as well as the weaknesses and strengths of these various activities. Already from the classification found above, it is possible to see several different types of statement – from information dense to more poetic – and begin to form the basis of an understanding of an epistemological structure to the knowledge work of personalisation. This means that the systems that I propose might in turn help to develop and define a true personalisation and choice regime for young students. These steps should give me everything that I will get from the research – career wise, I think that I would like to go into either some form of educational employment, or into some company working on supplying educational materials and expertise to the wider market. Thus I find that this work really can have an effect, whether it’s through a deep, thoughtful examination of practices that is finally starting to be reflected up. Second, it’s the introduction of an e-support application. I imagine it with a two pronged approach. The first is as a tool to help assessors or tutors to understand the way in which applicants use language, reflect on personal experiences in a meaningful way and thus interpret the output of the writing. By flagging particularly effective idiom or vocabulary, a mentor can easily see where a student has managed to encapsulate work or extra-curricular experiences into written work. I think this could be a useful support tool for teachers having to write references too as it provides some concrete examples and also shows the development of student knowledge and passion over time. On the other side, I also foresee the system as a directly accessible tool for students. Rather like a simplified version of those webpages which generate pop music lyrics, a student can choose a subject, a text prompt and a title and allow the program to give then a potentially hundreds of pre-generated poetic styles. By experimenting with different thematic choices or selecting a particular line and tweaking it, the work of personalisation itself can become part of the support tool and allow a student to really find and mould a unique voice. In turn, this could act as a learning tool for those just moving into the phase of having to construct “grown up” academic or work related documents.