ASCU Mentee Reflection Worksheet

Mentee worksheet for the ASCU postgraduate applications mentorship program. Please reflect
carefully on your responses and complete this worksheet before mid-August 2021. Your answers will
help you and your mentor to strengthen your personal statement.

Name:
Email:
Highest Degree & Course Earned:
Cambridge Degree & Course of Choice:
List at least 5 Potential Supervisors you would like to work with ( if the course is purely taught, please
fill N/A)

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Why do you want to earn this additional degree? Motivation for the degree and course. What do you
hope to get out of this degree and course? How would this benefit the wider society? What excites you about the
course? What do you look to contribute intellectually?

What are your short-and-long-term career goals? What do you see yourself doing after this
postgraduate degree? What do you see yourself doing in 5-10 years?

Why do you think the University of Cambridge is suitable for your degree? Why Cambridge? Why
not elsewhere?

What are your non-academic interests? (What extra-curricular do you enjoy? What sort of
clubs/societies do you see yourself fitting into at Cambridge?)

Could you provide your perceived strengths and weaknesses? (Please share 2-3 strengths and 2-3
weaknesses. Feel free to take the 16 personalities test to help with this if you wish --
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test)

Have you shared the reflection worksheet with your mentor? Please share the worksheet (word
document) with your mentor