Use of the personal statement for undergraduate law admissions

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Dear University of Edinburgh,

I would like to request the following data about the admissions process for all of your undergraduate law degrees.

1. Whether a candidate's personal statement (which is submitted through UCAS) is considered by the admissions team when considering whether to give that candidate an offer;

If the personal statement is assessed by the admissions team:
2. A list of the marking criteria/factors that are considered by the admissions team when assessing the candidate's personal statement;
3. Whether a candidate's personal statement is given a score or grade of any kind;
4. The weighting attached to the aforementioned score or grade (e.g. 20%);
5. A list of personal statement scores given to offer holders who had applied for undergraduate study in law at your university in the 2018/2019 admissions cycle (and thus received offers for either 2019 direct entry or 2020 deferred entry).

Yours faithfully,

Samira El Amein

Records Management, University of Edinburgh



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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Ms El Amein

Thank you for your email of 25 December 2019 requesting information about admissions to undergraduate law programmes.

I am writing to let you know that we have received your request and will process it as soon as reasonably possible, and hope to reply by 27 January 2020. However, we are currently experiencing an exceptionally high volume of requests and staff shortages. We will do our utmost to respond within 20 working days but wanted to alert you to the potential that this may not be possible.

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is available on-line at https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely
Dean McAdam
Information Compliance Officer
Records Management Section
The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8 9YL

Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]

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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Ms El Amein

Thank you for your email of 25 December 2019 requesting information about admissions to undergraduate law programmes. Please find our response attached.

Yours sincerely
Dean McAdam
Information Compliance Officer
Records Management Section
The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8 9YL

Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]

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