A Cambridge University college has been rolling out a programme aimed at helping comprehensive school pupils apply for Oxbridge.
Sixth formers from Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School, Stevenage, are among those taking the online course set up by Lucy Cavendish College.
One student said it had highlighted how within reach Oxbridge could be.
The academic enrichment programme is run in 180 schools, college president Prof Dame Madeleine Atkins said.
The college set up the course because "we were founded to open the Cambridge door to young people of exceptional talent who would not otherwise have thought of Cambridge or the other harder to get into universities," she said.
It focussed on students living in difficult or deprived areas with little history of pupils going on to Oxbridge or Russell Group universities, she added.
The aim was to make sure students got the grades of which they were capable and also knew how to make a competitive college application.
