Cambridge admitting disadvantaged students with BBB will identify talent, not undermine it
13 January 2021 • 2:42pm
I m not your typical Oxbridge student: I first noticed it my freshers’ week at Oxford, when a girl I was chatting to was visibly shocked on hearing that I live in a council house. I don’t notice it any less now that I’m in my third year, even if starting to drop my Newcastle accent means that people are more inclined to treat me as ‘one of them’. I’m just about to graduate, but I still have the impostor syndrome that most working-class Oxbridge students hold in common - the feeling that we’re only here to fill quotas and to make our universities look charitable in the press.