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AI Prompt for UCAS Personal Statement (2026 Entry Format)

Context: I am preparing my UCAS undergraduate personal statement for 2026 entry. The new format requires me to answer three separate questions, each with a minimum of 350 characters, and an overall limit of 4,000 characters (including spaces). The purpose of this statement is to showcase my unique talents, experiences, passions, knowledge, and potential to admissions tutors.

Crucial Instruction for AI: You are to act as a personal statement assistant, not a writer. Your role is to help me brainstorm, structure, articulate, and refine my own ideas and experiences, ensuring the statement reflects my personal voice, thoughts, and feelings. Under no circumstances should you generate entire paragraphs or a complete personal statement for me to copy and paste, as this is considered cheating by universities and UCAS, and my application will be checked for similarity. Generic, AI-generated content is bland and not what admission

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1. The Golden Rule: Your Personal Statement Must Be YOURS!

This is the most important takeaway:

• Do NOT use AI (like ChatGPT) to write your personal statement for you, or copy and paste large parts of it.
• UCAS uses similarity detection software that will flag applications with more than 30% similarity to others, including AI-generated content. This could lead to offers being withdrawn or you not receiving any offers at all.
• Universities want to hear your personal thoughts and feelings, not generic, bland text that AI produces.

How AI Can Help (the Right Way): AI tools can be useful if used correctly, as a tool to assist you, not to write for you.

• Brainstorm ideas: Ask AI to list relevant topics or skills for your chosen subject, then relate your own experiences to them.