Making your application to UCAS Part 3 Setting yourself apart

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Making your application to UCAS Part 3 Setting yourself apart Aim: to understand how to make your academic and personal profile stand out from the crowd

Enhancing your academic profile Apart from the required grades, universities look for people who show a commitment to their studies How can you do this?

Enhancing your academic profile Summer schools Subject / taster days Use the University of Northampton library Complete an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in a topic closely related to your chosen course Complete a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

University taster days and other events http://www.universitytasterdays.com/

University of Northampton Allow public access to their library Hold events / lectures available to the general public

http://www.northampton.ac.uk/events

Other universities eg LSE http://www. lse. ac

http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/Home.aspx

Sign up for a MOOC http://www. southampton. ac. uk/moocs/howtoresearch

Read! Online blogs Periodicals A quality broadsheet newspaper Text books other than your set texts

Blogs eg http://www.tutor2u.net/ Ask your subject teacher to recommend a website

Periodicals available in the LRC Choose some articles to analyse and write about These will act as a prompt in an interview or impress in a personal statement!

Newspapers are available in the LRC Read and analyse articles Make notes to aid your memory

Text books other than your set texts Ask your teachers for recommendations

Enhancing your personal profile Register your volunteer hours - https://vinspired.com/

Analyse what you’ve got out of volunteering: What have you done / observed? What impressed you? What have you learned? Analyse a particular instance where your volunteering made a difference Could things be done differently / better? How has this affected your choice of course / career?

Complete and evaluate a period of work shadowing What have you done / observed? What impressed you? What have you learned? How did the staff interact? What skills did they use? How has this affected your choice of course / career?

Extra-curricular activities and part time jobs How do these demonstrate: Time management? Sustained commitment? Financial awareness? Team work? Leadership? Transferrable skills? That you will be a better student?