What Does Admissions Want in a Reference?

Dionysus58
Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:53:48 +0000

UCAS references are designed to provide universities and colleges with an informed and academic assessment of an applicant’s suitability for further study. It is the only part of the application that the applicants do not write themselves. Universities and colleges are looking for the following key facts about a student:


their academic performance in their post-16 education
their potential for academic success in higher education
why the course they have chosen is suited to them
any personal qualities which will benefit them at university, such as skills, aptitude, enthusiasm
what they can bring to the university, such as extra-curricular activities and interests




[More info here.](http://www.ucas.com/advisers/online/references)

References should however be concentrated on your chosen course. I cant see how the plights of Senegalese woman have anything to do with it.