Don’t cut and paste “model” personal statements from the internet. And don’t use the old “burnt my pajamas when I was 8-year old” story. They’re on to you:
Five per cent of applicants, equivalent to 25,000 of this year’s 500,000 total, resorted to cutting and pasting sentences from model personal statements from the internet this year, according to the survey by Ucas, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Unfortunately, most lifted material from the same web-site, studential.com, making their transgressions as easy to spot as an elephant in an elevator.
