I said I'd never go to Oxbridge – now I'm a postgraduate student there

By Nushy Rose. I thought Oxbridge was for the elite, but after a degree at another university I'm doing a postgrad course there. When I was 16, I wrote an article that ended up on the front page of the Guardian education supplement. That article – based on a weekend taster course at Oxford that my school had sent me on – insisted that Oxbridge was socially elitist, and its application procedure so biased towards private sector applicants that I would no longer consider it as an option for my own higher education. More...