Need help with your personal statement?
CollegeLAH’s volunteer editors are happy to provide personal statement advice to students who are applying to UK Universities this year. Our volunteers will help to read through your personal statements, and will try their very best to provide you with feedback on the content based on their application experiences
Disclaimer: CollegeLAH’s team is solely made up of students who have pulled through the application processes. We have first hand experiences but we do not claim to be admission gurus. Any comments/feedback given are based on our personal experiences- what worked for us might not be the best possible ways to produce personal statements. The only way to be sure that you’re on the right track is to consult your college’s University Placement Center or MABECS.
Volunteer Editors
- Economics/Management/Accounting & Finance/Actuarial Science
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Daniel Chang Kai Ying | Economics | University of Warwick | Economics, Psychology or Social Sciences Personal Statement |
Mohammad Khalif Bin Mohd Shahriman | Economics | LSE | Economics or Art based Personal Statements |
Muhamad Husin bin Abd Wahid | Economics | LSE | Economics Personal Statements |
Emily Hooper | Global Sustainable Development and Economic Studies | University of Warwick | Sustainability, Social science, Environmental science or Humanities Personal Statements |
Amirah Naila Binti Mohamad Khalil | Economic Studies And Global Sustainable Development | University of Warwick | Economics, Psychology or other Social Sciences Personal Statements |
Balqis Binti Azlan | Accounting & Finance | University of Warwick | Accounting & Finance Personal Statements |
Brian Wong | Accounting & Finance | LSE | Accounting & Finance Personal Statements |
Isaac Chin Hao Xiang | Management | LSE | Economics, Management or Accounting Personal Statements |
Chan Lik Zhang | Food Business Management and Marketing | Newcastle University | Economics and Business or related Personal Statements to Food Business Management and Marketing |
Esther Ng | Actuarial Science | LSE | Actuarial Science Personal Statements |
2. Humanities (E.g. Literature, Law, Politics, History, Languages)
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Chen Jie Yuan | Law and Business Studies | University of Warwick | Law Personal Statements |
Khaw Jing Xin | Law | UCL | Medicine and Social Sciences Personal Statement |
Nurjennah Mat Amin | Law | UCL | Law, English Literature, Politics, Drama or Film Personal Statements |
Sarah Ahmad | Law | LSE | Law or any Humanities Personal Statement |
Jade Khoo | Law | University of Warwick | Law, Criminology or Art based Personal Statements |
Nicholas Chong | Law | Queen Mary University of London | Law or Humanities Personal Statements |
Ally Azizi | French and History | King’s College London | History, Languages, and English Literature Personal Statements |
Daniel Chang | Economics | University of Warwick | Economics, Psychology or Social Sciences Personal Statement |
Yuki Lim Jie Ny | Law | University of Exeter | Law Personal Statements |
Siri Suhageini | Politics, Philosophy and Law | King’s College London | Law, PPL, PPE |
3. Engineering
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Stephen Prashant | Mechanical Engineering | Imperial College London | STEM Personal Statements |
Kyla Wong | Chemical Engineering via Natural Sciences | University of Cambridge | Chemical Engineering or any other Engineering Personal Statements |
Nur Amalia binti Khairulanwar | Mechanical Engineering | UCL | Engineering Personal Statements |
4. Natural Sciences
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Sai Hou Chong | Natural Sciences (Biological) | University of Cambridge | Biology and/or Chemistry Personal Statements |
Tan Jean Shen | Natural Sciences | UCL | Science Personal Statements (ideally Biology, Chemistry or pure sciences related) |
Jeslyn Kho | Biochemistry | Imperial College London | Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology Personal Statements |
Emily Ng Zhi Qing | Biochemistry (Molecular and Cellular) | University of Oxford | Natural Sciences, Bio-Sciences or Life Sciences Personal Statements |
Sia Jia Jhing | Biomedical Sciences | University of Oxford | Any Biological Natural Sciences Personal Statement (E.g Biomed/Biochem/Biological Sciences) |
Eng Kai Yee | Medical Biosciences | Imperial College London | Biomedical Sciences Personal Statements |
Nor Fatihah Akma Abd Manaf | Medical Biosciences | Imperial College London | Biomedical Science or Biology Personal Statements |
Ruixi Seet | Physics | Brown University | STEM or Physics Personal Statements |
4. Medicine and Veterinary Science
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Jean Ling Tan | Medicine | University of Manchester | Medicine or any life-Science Personal Statements |
Khaw Jing Xin | Law | UCL | Medicine and Social Sciences Personal Statement |
Shabita Nandy | Medicine | Cardiff University | Medicine or Science-related Personal Statements that involve medical aspects, e.g. Biomedical engineering, Biomedical sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Katherine Jackie Yin Gumal | Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | University of Glasgow | Veterinary Science Personal Statements |
CollegeLAH editors
If you prefer, you may also request that our UK team members edit/comment on your Personal Statement personally. Please bear in mind that if our own editors are congested with applications, they will be forwarded to a volunteer editor with your written consent instead. Likewise, if our volunteer editors are congested, your application may be forwarded to one of our own editors.
Name | Course | University | I can provide advice on: |
Aiynah Hazni | Economics | University of Warwick | Economics or any Social Sciences, and Actuarial Science Personal Statements |
Loo Shi Hao | Law | University of Warwick | All Personal Statements |
Kirubaharan Muttusamy | Economics | LSE | Economics, History and any Social Sciences Personal Statements |
Victoria Tay | Law | LSE | Law or Accounting & Finance Personal Statements |
Saria Zulkarnain | Philosophy, Politics & Economics | University of Warwick | PPE, Economics or Politics Personal Statements |
Sidney Marie Chin | Law | LSE | Law Personal Statements |
How it works?
Send us a copy of your personal statement and the following details to psessaycheck@collegelah.com.
- Name
- Email address
- Current Institution
- Pre-University subjects
- Course of study you are applying for in university
- Intended universities
- Two preferred editors (will only be sent to one)
- College/School’s internal deadline for submission
We will forward your personal statement to your “Preferred Editors” ONLY. However, in the event that the particular Editor has too many outstanding requests, we will forward your personal statement to another editor with similar credentials with prior written consent from you. Similarly, if you do not state a preferred editor, the personal statement will then be sent to a member of the CollegeLAH Team to be edited. Please do note that the CollegeLAH admin team may view it for administrative purposes.
You will receive an email from the regional correspondent indicating that your personal statement has indeed been forwarded to an editor. Your editor has been told to connect with you within two days upon receiving your personal statement. You can then decide, alongside with your volunteer editor, a suitable timeframe and medium of communication that you both are comfortable on working with. Should there not be any contact from your volunteer after two days, we kindly request that you inform us. Your personal statement will then be reverted to a member of the CollegeLAH Team to be personally edited.
The editor will read through your essay thoroughly and provide you with feedback based on his/her application experience, via email, Google Docs and/or Microsoft Word. The method of correspondence between you and your editor is entirely up to you and his/her discretion. Keep in mind that we are not admissions professionals but students with first hand experiences willing to share with you. It’s always a good idea to check with your university placement center before submitting it!
Don’t worry if you are applying to a course not mentioned above. Our volunteers have agreed to take on other personal statements if required. We are providing this as a free service, and we ask that in return, you ‘like’ and share our Facebook page so that your friends can also benefit from what is shared here. Please do send us a link/screencap showing that you have done so. 🙂 You may opt out if you wish to, there is no obligation on this at all.
We wish you all the best with your UCAS application!
May I know if my personal statement be confidential or is there any possibilities that my personal statement be leaked or sold ?
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Hi Roberta! Thanks for visiting our site and thanks for raising the concern.
We will forward your personal statement to your “Preferred Volunteer” ONLY. However, in the event that the particular volunteer has too many outstanding requests, we will forward your personal statement to another volunteer with similar credentials, with prior written consent from you. We will NOT sell your personal statement online.
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Hello!
Are you still offering this service of reviewing personal statements? Is it possible to send them for the 2016 application process now?
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Hey Abby,
Yup we still do. Email us @ samanthaong@collegelah.com 🙂
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