Working class? Don't think that Oxbridge is for you.

And there are plenty of them.

Germanshepherdsmum

They are trying to do that wwm but there will always be a good many from wealthy backgrounds.

But the more students from working class or middle class background then the more they will each have someone to identify with.

It is really only the Bullingdon types that may cause an issue.

volver

It doesn't matter.

She can't tell people that they can't aim for Oxbridge because they are working class.

I had very little in common with other students at the university I went to, which was by no means Oxbridge.

There's a rather funny (in the sense of 'if I didn't laugh I would cry') passage in Fiona Hill's book where she describes a conversation she had with a student from a privileged background when she was at St Andrews.

Basically it went along the lines of "We need all the advantages that our wealth brings us because otherwise the clever working-class students will take over and that would upset the social order"

They are trying to do that wwm but there will always be a good many from wealthy backgrounds.

Germanshepherdsmum

I wonder how many bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have got into Oxbridge but then felt like a fish out of water, having nothing in common with other students?

Then time the working class contingent was upped imo

It doesn't matter.

She can't tell people that they can't aim for Oxbridge because they are working class.

I had very little in common with other students at the university I went to, which was by no means Oxbridge.

I wonder how many bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have got into Oxbridge but then felt like a fish out of water, having nothing in common with other students?