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Do universities still bother reading personal statements?

As UK universities get more urgent to concede the same number of understudies as previously, individual articulations in UCAS shapes are getting lesser and lesser consideration from confirmations officers. While some still give it an exhaustive look, a few universities are hindered with such huge numbers of utilization that they have needed to contract outer "expert selectors" to carry out the activity for them, The Guardian announced.  "My nature is that they're likely not being perused by showing staff and I speculate they are being perused less and less," says Steven Jones, a scientist in advanced education at Manchester Institute of Education. For the students in year 12, it is apparently the hardest thing they've needed to offer: themselves. Blood, sweat, drudge and – much of the time – school, parental and budgetary help goes into composing the UCAS individual statement. However, with the top on student numbers lifted and colleges urgent t...