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Personal Statements.

Writing a Personal Statement is hard. Below, members of the Society share their own PS and Cambridge Trust applications as prompting examples — organised by year, then by course.

It is difficult to write a Personal Statement. For most students, it is the first time they write down who they are in an academic context. The idea that students have for a long time been striving towards a particular academic interest is artificial, and yet it would seem that students must provide a summary of their achievements and interests as though it were true. In fact, this becomes true, through the process of writing the Personal Statement. The PS is Personal, as the writing process of the PS is ideally an effort to clearly connect one's habits and past with the course one hopes to study, given official course descriptions, or whatever one knows from searching for information. But it is mainly a Statement, as the final PS must justify an applicant's interest in terms of achievements, completed projects, experiences, or other factual information meaningful and relevant to the university.

Some of our members have volunteered to share their PS or Cambridge Trust Application below. These are the most recent first, then the older archive is grouped by course.

2026

2025

Earlier Personal Statements, grouped by course

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Architecture

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Chemical Engineering

Classics

Computer Science

Economics

Engineering

Geography

Human, Social and Political Sciences

History and Politics

Land Economy

Law

Linguistics

Mathematics

Medicine

Modern and Medieval Languages

Natural Sciences

Philosophy

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Cambridge Trust applications

Want to contribute? If you were a successful Hungarian applicant and would like to share your Personal Statement for future members, email [email protected] with the PDF, your course, year of application, and college.