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I am a second year student at Cambridge and was educated at the local comprehensive. I was therefore interested to read an article at the weekend saying that despite the millions spent by Oxbridge to encourage comprehensive pupils to apply, the majority of their state school entrants are still from selective schools and of these most come from three or four grammar schools in London and Essex. One head of a Sixth Form College said that he does not encourage his pupils to apply because rejection can be so demoralising that they may not then strive to get into other Universities. I thought this a rather odd attitude. Firstly by the time you know whether you have been accepted you have already applied to five other Universities and in most cases will already hold several offers. Secondly life is full of disappointments but that is no reason not to try. How depressing to know in later life that you had the potential to try for Oxbridge but didn’t because you were afraid of failure.

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