<p>What has been said above is correct, and I would point you in the direction of The Student Room and UCAS to do some more research. </p>
<p>As part of your application you will need to write a 4000 character personal statement. This should be focused on why you want to study the subject, and no more than 25% should be about any ECs you have. Any ECs should be related back to the subject you want to study where possible. </p>
<p>And hooks don’t exist in UK applications, and nor does any sort of ethnic diversity thing. The only real active strive towards diversity is in terms of helping bright, working class UK kids to get to the application stage, and helping with the application itself. They won’t give a tuppeney damn what your skin colour is.</p>