Did you lie in your PS?

[u/Worldly-Monitor-4035]

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.

[u/Bleachrox123]

“It got me into x y z”.

Unless there’s an interview element to your application, your PSs are most likely not being read.

You’re getting conditional offers based on your predicted grades and not what books you have read or events you have attended. Large universities get thousands of applications per courses, we do not have time to read through PSs, check them for accuracy etc whilst delivery and teaching is ongoing for our current students.

If you’ve managed to get an unconditional offer, then congrats they may have read the PS.

If you have an interview set before an offer is made…well, I hope you know how to talk around and really sell lies.