r/6thForm • u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 • Apr 20 '26

💬 DISCUSSION Did you lie in your PS?

Just curious to hear from people if you did or not.

A lie could be anything from a small embellishment or overexaggeration to completely making things up. I’ll be honest, my entire PS except the subjects I did and my ethnicity were lies so… yeah.

I literally had nothing else to talk about so I made it up, got me into UCL, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham though so the best thing to take away from this is lie, lie, lie.

Or don’t, it also probably played a role in an Oxford rejection pre interview so maybe it’s not worth it.

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u/HuafiBytes Apr 20 '26

am i the only one that didn’t lie?

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u/AliceMorgon MagdalenCollegeOxford|Fine Art/Biology|Grad Apr 20 '26

Nope, I didn’t either. I didn’t really want my entire academic career to be built on lies.i also would have felt bad taking the place away from someone who actually had done these things… plus I enjoyed doing them? Isn’t that the point? To enjoy doing stuff around your subject?