hwood wrote:
Started Yr13 now, she is struggling with the personal statement and they sent this ucas link to start applying
What is your DD applying for? Does she have some idea whether she would be happier with a 'proper' campus university?
e.g. Sussex / UEA / Warwick / Kent / Keele / Loughborough / Bath / York / Lancaster
Or a true 'City' university?
e.g. Bristol / Liverpool / Manchester/ Durham / Cardiff / Oxford / Cambridge / de Montfort / Edinburgh / Newcastle / Northumbria
Or sort of both?
e.g. Leeds / Leicester / Southampton / Exeter (the Streatham campus is a proper campus, but the city of Exeter is not very big, so it isn't really 'detached').
Seaside?
e.g. Swansea / Aberystwyth / St Andrews (sort of) / Brighton
Which universities have her friends looked at (some of them must have seen some of the virtual open days between them, surely?)? Does she engage at all with TSR? (
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk, loads of helpful stuff on there re every UK university).
As KCG says, though, there is no huge need to go straight from leaving school - and if your DD really doesn't have a clue with regard to where she might want to apply, then taking time to have a good think about courses, visit / 'visit' as many places as she can and apply for 2022 entry with achieved grades might be the sensible way to go.
(Unless she is applying for Maths, in which case, a gap year is not usually considered desirable, on the
use it or lose it principle).