Guidance with Personal Statement for UK-based universities: crafting a compelling narrative that highlights your unique strengths

LESSONS

The lessons are designed to guide you through the process of brainstorming, organising, writing, and refining your personal statement. You will also gain insider tips on what admissions committees look for, avoid common pitfalls, and leave with a polished draft that showcases the best version of you. The aim is to create a powerful narrative that reflects your unique story and leaves a lasting impression.


ABOUT THE TUTOR

Marina graduated with a first-class honours from University College London (UCL) in Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (MEng). She has worked with Microsoft Research, Adobe Research, and Johns Hopkins University on a variety of research and engineering projects in the fields of computer vision and human-computer interaction. This work included projects such as developing a system to analyse dance motion from video using machine learning, or designing an augmented reality-guided dance game for prosthetic rehabilitation of amputees. She has been a lecturer at the London Interdisciplinary Schoo,l where she designed and taught an undergraduate course on programming and data science. For the last four years, she has also been working as an interviewer with Karat, interviewing over 400 candidates for technical roles at a vast range of tech companies.