At secondary school, and I don’t mean to blow my own trumpet, I was academically one of the brightest kids in my year, consistently getting top marks.
Despite this, I never even considered applying to Oxbridge. I’d never met anyone who went to either university, and believed places there were reserved for posh, rich white people. So naive.
It wasn’t until I got to sixth form college and met a Black girl in my English class who was determined to get into Cambridge that I realised people like me could apply.
