It’s a life-changing cycle call. As the admissions babysitter reads out names, the men and women aggregate about the table acknowledgment crisply to anniversary one: “Yep … yep … yep.” Anniversary “yep” is absolutely a no. It’s a bounce of a appellant who has activated for a abode at the University of Cambridge.
The weakest of the acreage accept already been sifted out; up to a fifth of applications are beneath afore the annual stage. Now the advisers are aggregate to accede the after-effects of those interviews. Bristles women and seven men are aggregate at a table, in a light-filled, ellipsoidal allowance at Churchill Academy to altercate admissions to abstraction accustomed sciences.
The accessible ones go first. These are the candidates whose bookish clue almanac is – by Cambridge standards – marginal, and whose achievement at annual has been disappointing. As one candidate’s name is apprehend out, one of the academics addendum that he got an annual account of two, out of a accessible 10. “Oh dear,” says Richard Partington, the chief admissions tutor, who sits at the arch of the table. Abutting to Partington is a animate trolley with the applicants’ files.
Then, they get bottomward to business. Afterwards the aboveboard rejections, and those they accept already absitively to action places to, there is a bandage of candidates who abatement in the middle. They adeptness be teenagers who accept done able-bodied at interview, but whose bookish achievement seems patchy. There are some with categorical accreditation on cardboard – but, in a byword that is afresh used, “failed to shine” at interview.
Cambridge has opened up the admissions action to accord a clearer annual of the accomplishment that goes into the appraisal of anniversary candidate. Competition is intense: about 16,000 candidates are block aloof beneath 3,400 undergraduate places. Churchill Academy has 39 places in accustomed sciences and added than 170 absolute applicants. The academics will accomplish about 45 offers, in belletrist that access on candidates’ doormats this week. To advice bottle the anonymity of the candidates, best of the academics in the allowance accept asked for their names not to be used.
As the wind all-overs the bald branches of copse outside, the academics altercate an interviewee from a sixth-form college. One notes: “He was acutely accurate with aggregate he was doing, but not absolutely agreeable in the discussion. I anticipate mathematics is article he does absolutely well, but he doesn’t shine.”
The boy is an abnormal case – he has won a scholarship to abstraction in the UK afterwards action to academy overseas. His home country is a poor one, not accustomed for its apprenticeship system. One of the women says: “I would booty him and accumulate a abutting eye on his progress. He adeptness charge a addition in confidence.”
“Let’s booty him,” Partington agrees. “Everyone content?”
Next up is a babe from a arch clandestine school, who was able on cardboard but stumbled at interview. “She seemed afraid by absolutely a lot of the things we were talking about – [she would say] ‘Oh right’ as if she hadn’t credible it before,” one of the academics, in a wine-coloured sweater, says.
“Had she not revised?” Partington asks.
“We asked them what they’d done recently, and based the questions on that, so it was starting with article familiar, but seeing it in a altered context,” the bookish replies.
Partington suggests: “One achievability is that she’s addition who’s abstruse in a compartmentalised way.”
Another babysitter says: “The animadversion I’ve put bottomward is: ‘Needed advice with abutting steps.’”
Partington wonders aloud if advisers can advance a apprentice through an absolute degree. “We could,” one of the men responds dryly.
Both Oxford and Cambridge are consistently accused of angled adjoin accompaniment academy applicants – best famously, in the case of Laura Spence, the babe from Tyneside who was banned a abode at Magdalen College, Oxford, added than a decade ago. The advisers aggregate at this table are acquainted that Cambridge is committed to acceptance amid 61% and 63% of its UK acceptance from state-sector schools and colleges. At present, that admeasurement is 59.3%. The university has additionally agreed with the Office for Fair Access – an official babysitter set up aback the Blair government brought in top-up fees – to access the allotment of acceptance from neighbourhoods area few bodies accept gone to university.
Churchill Academy is a low-rise modernist assemblage on the bend of the burghal centre, a alternation of chain brick cubes. It does bigger on state-school assimilation than Cambridge as a whole. This is partly because of its acceptability for science, which attracts added accompaniment academy pupils. The breach at Churchill is 70/30 in favour of the accompaniment sector. That is still out of appearance with the academy arrangement as a accomplished – aloof 7% of pupils in England appear clandestine schools. But it is a bit afterpiece to the breach at sixth form, area clandestine schools annual for about 13% of the absolute cardinal of A-level assay entries.
In its prospectus, the academy is declared as accepting a “friendly, discreet amusing atmosphere”. It is absolutely not as physically alarming as some of the admirable and age-old barrio in the burghal centre. But alike here, the ambience allege of abundance and acquaintance with power; the sketches on the walls are by Winston Churchill, the attic is teak and the allowance is panelled with addition bright close hardwood.
The byword “a acceptable school” comes up afresh in the tutors’ discussions. It is acclimated best frequently about clandestine and grammar schools, but additionally some absolute schools, and has a bifold meaning. “A acceptable school” is a high-performing one. It is a academy that knows what Cambridge requires, area the academy advertence is delivered in the agreement the university is attractive for – the key phrases are ones that emphasise accomplished achievement compared with their age group: “He [or she] is best in … he is top of …” But aback a appellant comes from “a acceptable school” they are additionally cut beneath slack. Of one appellant from “a acceptable school”, a absent babysitter says: “The affair that didn’t sit with me is, his [predicted] A* is in added maths, but he couldn’t do his arithmetic.”
The Sutton Trust, the alms that aims to advance amusing advancement through education, blames the diff outcomes amid accompaniment and clandestine candidates at university akin on the poor assay achievement of some schools. That abortion at academy akin becomes acutely credible in the case of one of the Churchill candidates. She has had “unimaginable teaching difficulties”, the advisers hear. She has taken her A-levels at a academy that has had a spectacularly aerial about-face of teachers.
Peering at his laptop aback her name is announced, Nick Cutler, an admissions babysitter at Churchill, says there are “multiple flags”. The flags are acclimated to announce factors such as poverty, or a academy that performs actual ailing at GCSE. There are six categories in all – including whether an appellant has spent time in care. There is affirmation that a able appellant from a bad academy is acceptable to accomplish able-bodied aback they appear to Cambridge. But the academics are anxious that in this case, the academy has been so agitated that she artlessly lacks capital knowledge. Her assay and annual marks are low.
The accelerated clip of Cambridge would “kill her”, one of the academics says. Addition agrees: “I would absolutely like to accord her a place, but for her own sanity, she’s abundant bigger action to one of the added redbrick, Russell Group universities, and aloof demography her time.”
Partington says: “If we gave her a adventitious she would do what everybody abroad would do, and think: ‘I’ll apparently be all right’ and she will apparently be wrong.”
There is a anxious accord about the table that the university cannot adjustment the gaps in this candidate’s knowledge. A anathema band from the school’s advertence – which lays bald its disability to advise the appellant – is apprehend aloud by a babysitter who raises ample easily in exasperation. The candidate’s book goes aback into the trolley with a clang.
Another appellant from a absolute academy has four contextual abstracts flags by her name. There is a agenda too about “teaching difficulties” – a physics abecedary who larboard during the sixth anatomy and a amateur for chemistry. This is an easier case – her annual array are high, an eight and a seven out of 10. She has a 92% mark in her allure A-level. One of the academics reviews her “flags”: “She’s got low socio-economic, low-performing GCSE, low Oxbridge – she’s about got the abounding set.”
Partington says: “Take her.”
There is addition babe from a absolute academy who got an eight at interview, but one bookish exclaims: “Blooming heck, her GCSE annual was terrible.”
“The academy doesn’t apperceive how to address a reference,” addition comments.
Partington decides to accomplish an action but to set the hurdle aerial because of the doubts. “We’re action to A* the chemistry,” he says firmly.
“I would A* the maths,” one of the others suggests. “The added affair I would do is address to her separately, animate her to do added maths through the Added Maths Network.”
The advisers are disconnected about this – there is a action she has already been continued attenuate in a “school that’s not great”. But they adjudge this will not be an access requirement. She aloof needs a little added delivery in maths to cope at university.
On the table are white ceramics cups of tea and coffee, two almost affected baptize jugs and a distinct hardly begrimed banana. The academics blade through coloured spreadsheets with the candidates’ names, their assay achievement to date, predicted grades, annual scores, contextual flags and baronial – based on assay achievement – compared with all of the university’s applicants this year.
The clip is swift, admitting the affair abiding bristles hours. It is occasionally leavened with a blow of humour, or avuncular kindness. One of the academics, attractive at a book photo, sighs: “Oh he’s adolescent – he looks like one of the Bash Street kids.” Addition remarks, of a altered candidate: “You could conduct a analysis abstraction in his hair.” Recalling an over-caffeinated and under-dressed teenager, one says: “The T-shirt, oh yes, the T-shirt …”
Although a candidate’s ethnicity is about axiomatic from his or her name and the photograph in their file, there is never any apparent altercation of race. This seems hasty aback both Oxford and Cambridge accept been accused of actuality racially as able-bodied as socially exclusive.
Geoff Parks, administrator of admissions at Cambridge, says later: “Race doesn’t appear up in its own right. It’s inseparable from socio-economic factors. Cambridge admits a admeasurement of BME [ethnic minority] acceptance that is aloft the admeasurement of the boyish population, [but] with ‘low-participation’ neighbourhoods we feel we’re not affair a almost low target. Many bodies who are first-generation British adeptness additionally be active in low-participation neighbourhoods.”
At times, the action seems brusque; a life-changing accommodation fabricated in a second. In fact, it is the end point of a long, accelerated action of evaluating candidates. Best of those who administer are interviewed. And the interviews are advised to delving their adeptness deeply. For accustomed sciences, the annual has a activated bent, with candidates arrest problems beneath the boring of the tutor. Aplomb is appreciated. Of one candidate, a boy from an academy academy in Norfolk, a babysitter says: “He managed to bang a antithesis amid not actuality ashamed by what’s action on, and not actuality arrogant either. The array of actuality …”
Someone abroad finishes: “You’d like to teach.”
Great accent is placed on assay performance, and the academics are agog to assignment bottomward into achievement in alone modules. One addendum agreeably of a appellant who has “done some adamantine units”. There is far beneath absorption than is bargain anticipation in extra-curricular activity. An bookish animadversion with bafflement that a appellant has “got his violin grades on there”.
It is not aloof poor teaching – or a abridgement of teaching – that can bones a candidate’s chances. Their aggregate of capacity is additionally crucial. There is alarm about a appellant who is applying to apprehend accustomed sciences afterwards accepting either maths or biology; he is demography physics and allure but his third A-level is an arts subject. The abridgement of maths rules him out for the abstraction of physics. The absence of analysis agency he will attempt to be accustomed as a biologist. The academy is a “really ropey” one. One of the academics, a man in a blah fleece, comments: “I feel apologetic for him, but I don’t anticipate we can fix the problem.”
The accord is that they will “stick him in the pool”. The “winter pool” is a third advantage – neither a aboveboard action nor an absolute rejection. It agency the appliance is forwarded for application by added colleges. Able candidates who are at accident of actuality awkward out because they accept activated to an over-subscribed academy additionally get a additional adventitious this way. The basin takes abode in aboriginal January, about three weeks afterwards the academy accommodation meetings. Admissions advisers from all the Cambridge colleges accumulate in two apartment at Newnham College, and appraise the affiliated candidates’ folders again.
The capital allowance in which the basin takes abode is Clough Hall, an affected banqueting allowance with a minstrels’ arcade and a beam busy with adhesive mouldings of flowers and heraldic beasts. There is actual little conversation. Advisers go through bundles of files authoritative lists of candidates they would like to cull out for their college. Anglepoise lamps discharge chicken ablaze on to the desks. Outside, it is overcast.
Andy Bell, admissions babysitter at Gonville and Caius College, has spotted three abeyant candidates for places in an arts accountable at his college. One of the files that has bent his eye is a boy whose educational accomplishments is not that of a “straightforward, accepted Cambridge applicant”. He is applying from a “perfectly decent” sixth-form college, but afore that he had abounding a poor absolute school. Bell notes: “His GCSE achievement is absolutely absolutely strong, accepting a lot of A*s at GCSE. This is addition who’s been alive far aloft the akin of his accomplice from an aboriginal age.” Alfresco school, he has displayed an absorption in the accountable he is applying for – it is such a baby advance that allotment it risks anecdotic him – through assignment acquaintance at a university in London, and all-encompassing reading. “This is somebody who’s formed absolutely adamantine for a cardinal of years, who’s absolutely austere about authoritative article of his bookish ability,” Bell says.
Seated at a table by one of the tall, angled windows, James Keeler, the admissions babysitter at Selwyn College, has conceivably the best alarming job – reviewing candidates for medicine, a advance so aggressive that accomplished applicants are commonly angry down.
Keeler opens the binder of a appellant who is applying afterwards demography his A-levels. The academy advertence describes him as a “strong applicant” and underlines the adjective. This is borne out by his after-effects – he has four A*s.
For medicine, the advisers
The weakest of the acreage accept already been sifted out; up to a fifth of applications are beneath afore the annual stage. Now the advisers are aggregate to accede the after-effects of those interviews. Bristles women and seven men are aggregate at a table, in a light-filled, ellipsoidal allowance at Churchill Academy to altercate admissions to abstraction accustomed sciences.
The accessible ones go first. These are the candidates whose bookish clue almanac is – by Cambridge standards – marginal, and whose achievement at annual has been disappointing. As one candidate’s name is apprehend out, one of the academics addendum that he got an annual account of two, out of a accessible 10. “Oh dear,” says Richard Partington, the chief admissions tutor, who sits at the arch of the table. Abutting to Partington is a animate trolley with the applicants’ files.
Then, they get bottomward to business. Afterwards the aboveboard rejections, and those they accept already absitively to action places to, there is a bandage of candidates who abatement in the middle. They adeptness be teenagers who accept done able-bodied at interview, but whose bookish achievement seems patchy. There are some with categorical accreditation on cardboard – but, in a byword that is afresh used, “failed to shine” at interview.
Cambridge has opened up the admissions action to accord a clearer annual of the accomplishment that goes into the appraisal of anniversary candidate. Competition is intense: about 16,000 candidates are block aloof beneath 3,400 undergraduate places. Churchill Academy has 39 places in accustomed sciences and added than 170 absolute applicants. The academics will accomplish about 45 offers, in belletrist that access on candidates’ doormats this week. To advice bottle the anonymity of the candidates, best of the academics in the allowance accept asked for their names not to be used.
As the wind all-overs the bald branches of copse outside, the academics altercate an interviewee from a sixth-form college. One notes: “He was acutely accurate with aggregate he was doing, but not absolutely agreeable in the discussion. I anticipate mathematics is article he does absolutely well, but he doesn’t shine.”
The boy is an abnormal case – he has won a scholarship to abstraction in the UK afterwards action to academy overseas. His home country is a poor one, not accustomed for its apprenticeship system. One of the women says: “I would booty him and accumulate a abutting eye on his progress. He adeptness charge a addition in confidence.”
“Let’s booty him,” Partington agrees. “Everyone content?”
Next up is a babe from a arch clandestine school, who was able on cardboard but stumbled at interview. “She seemed afraid by absolutely a lot of the things we were talking about – [she would say] ‘Oh right’ as if she hadn’t credible it before,” one of the academics, in a wine-coloured sweater, says.
“Had she not revised?” Partington asks.
“We asked them what they’d done recently, and based the questions on that, so it was starting with article familiar, but seeing it in a altered context,” the bookish replies.
Partington suggests: “One achievability is that she’s addition who’s abstruse in a compartmentalised way.”
Another babysitter says: “The animadversion I’ve put bottomward is: ‘Needed advice with abutting steps.’”
Partington wonders aloud if advisers can advance a apprentice through an absolute degree. “We could,” one of the men responds dryly.
Both Oxford and Cambridge are consistently accused of angled adjoin accompaniment academy applicants – best famously, in the case of Laura Spence, the babe from Tyneside who was banned a abode at Magdalen College, Oxford, added than a decade ago. The advisers aggregate at this table are acquainted that Cambridge is committed to acceptance amid 61% and 63% of its UK acceptance from state-sector schools and colleges. At present, that admeasurement is 59.3%. The university has additionally agreed with the Office for Fair Access – an official babysitter set up aback the Blair government brought in top-up fees – to access the allotment of acceptance from neighbourhoods area few bodies accept gone to university.
Churchill Academy is a low-rise modernist assemblage on the bend of the burghal centre, a alternation of chain brick cubes. It does bigger on state-school assimilation than Cambridge as a whole. This is partly because of its acceptability for science, which attracts added accompaniment academy pupils. The breach at Churchill is 70/30 in favour of the accompaniment sector. That is still out of appearance with the academy arrangement as a accomplished – aloof 7% of pupils in England appear clandestine schools. But it is a bit afterpiece to the breach at sixth form, area clandestine schools annual for about 13% of the absolute cardinal of A-level assay entries.
In its prospectus, the academy is declared as accepting a “friendly, discreet amusing atmosphere”. It is absolutely not as physically alarming as some of the admirable and age-old barrio in the burghal centre. But alike here, the ambience allege of abundance and acquaintance with power; the sketches on the walls are by Winston Churchill, the attic is teak and the allowance is panelled with addition bright close hardwood.
The byword “a acceptable school” comes up afresh in the tutors’ discussions. It is acclimated best frequently about clandestine and grammar schools, but additionally some absolute schools, and has a bifold meaning. “A acceptable school” is a high-performing one. It is a academy that knows what Cambridge requires, area the academy advertence is delivered in the agreement the university is attractive for – the key phrases are ones that emphasise accomplished achievement compared with their age group: “He [or she] is best in … he is top of …” But aback a appellant comes from “a acceptable school” they are additionally cut beneath slack. Of one appellant from “a acceptable school”, a absent babysitter says: “The affair that didn’t sit with me is, his [predicted] A* is in added maths, but he couldn’t do his arithmetic.”
The Sutton Trust, the alms that aims to advance amusing advancement through education, blames the diff outcomes amid accompaniment and clandestine candidates at university akin on the poor assay achievement of some schools. That abortion at academy akin becomes acutely credible in the case of one of the Churchill candidates. She has had “unimaginable teaching difficulties”, the advisers hear. She has taken her A-levels at a academy that has had a spectacularly aerial about-face of teachers.
Peering at his laptop aback her name is announced, Nick Cutler, an admissions babysitter at Churchill, says there are “multiple flags”. The flags are acclimated to announce factors such as poverty, or a academy that performs actual ailing at GCSE. There are six categories in all – including whether an appellant has spent time in care. There is affirmation that a able appellant from a bad academy is acceptable to accomplish able-bodied aback they appear to Cambridge. But the academics are anxious that in this case, the academy has been so agitated that she artlessly lacks capital knowledge. Her assay and annual marks are low.
The accelerated clip of Cambridge would “kill her”, one of the academics says. Addition agrees: “I would absolutely like to accord her a place, but for her own sanity, she’s abundant bigger action to one of the added redbrick, Russell Group universities, and aloof demography her time.”
Partington says: “If we gave her a adventitious she would do what everybody abroad would do, and think: ‘I’ll apparently be all right’ and she will apparently be wrong.”
There is a anxious accord about the table that the university cannot adjustment the gaps in this candidate’s knowledge. A anathema band from the school’s advertence – which lays bald its disability to advise the appellant – is apprehend aloud by a babysitter who raises ample easily in exasperation. The candidate’s book goes aback into the trolley with a clang.
Another appellant from a absolute academy has four contextual abstracts flags by her name. There is a agenda too about “teaching difficulties” – a physics abecedary who larboard during the sixth anatomy and a amateur for chemistry. This is an easier case – her annual array are high, an eight and a seven out of 10. She has a 92% mark in her allure A-level. One of the academics reviews her “flags”: “She’s got low socio-economic, low-performing GCSE, low Oxbridge – she’s about got the abounding set.”
Partington says: “Take her.”
There is addition babe from a absolute academy who got an eight at interview, but one bookish exclaims: “Blooming heck, her GCSE annual was terrible.”
“The academy doesn’t apperceive how to address a reference,” addition comments.
Partington decides to accomplish an action but to set the hurdle aerial because of the doubts. “We’re action to A* the chemistry,” he says firmly.
“I would A* the maths,” one of the others suggests. “The added affair I would do is address to her separately, animate her to do added maths through the Added Maths Network.”
The advisers are disconnected about this – there is a action she has already been continued attenuate in a “school that’s not great”. But they adjudge this will not be an access requirement. She aloof needs a little added delivery in maths to cope at university.
On the table are white ceramics cups of tea and coffee, two almost affected baptize jugs and a distinct hardly begrimed banana. The academics blade through coloured spreadsheets with the candidates’ names, their assay achievement to date, predicted grades, annual scores, contextual flags and baronial – based on assay achievement – compared with all of the university’s applicants this year.
The clip is swift, admitting the affair abiding bristles hours. It is occasionally leavened with a blow of humour, or avuncular kindness. One of the academics, attractive at a book photo, sighs: “Oh he’s adolescent – he looks like one of the Bash Street kids.” Addition remarks, of a altered candidate: “You could conduct a analysis abstraction in his hair.” Recalling an over-caffeinated and under-dressed teenager, one says: “The T-shirt, oh yes, the T-shirt …”
Although a candidate’s ethnicity is about axiomatic from his or her name and the photograph in their file, there is never any apparent altercation of race. This seems hasty aback both Oxford and Cambridge accept been accused of actuality racially as able-bodied as socially exclusive.
Geoff Parks, administrator of admissions at Cambridge, says later: “Race doesn’t appear up in its own right. It’s inseparable from socio-economic factors. Cambridge admits a admeasurement of BME [ethnic minority] acceptance that is aloft the admeasurement of the boyish population, [but] with ‘low-participation’ neighbourhoods we feel we’re not affair a almost low target. Many bodies who are first-generation British adeptness additionally be active in low-participation neighbourhoods.”
At times, the action seems brusque; a life-changing accommodation fabricated in a second. In fact, it is the end point of a long, accelerated action of evaluating candidates. Best of those who administer are interviewed. And the interviews are advised to delving their adeptness deeply. For accustomed sciences, the annual has a activated bent, with candidates arrest problems beneath the boring of the tutor. Aplomb is appreciated. Of one candidate, a boy from an academy academy in Norfolk, a babysitter says: “He managed to bang a antithesis amid not actuality ashamed by what’s action on, and not actuality arrogant either. The array of actuality …”
Someone abroad finishes: “You’d like to teach.”
Great accent is placed on assay performance, and the academics are agog to assignment bottomward into achievement in alone modules. One addendum agreeably of a appellant who has “done some adamantine units”. There is far beneath absorption than is bargain anticipation in extra-curricular activity. An bookish animadversion with bafflement that a appellant has “got his violin grades on there”.
It is not aloof poor teaching – or a abridgement of teaching – that can bones a candidate’s chances. Their aggregate of capacity is additionally crucial. There is alarm about a appellant who is applying to apprehend accustomed sciences afterwards accepting either maths or biology; he is demography physics and allure but his third A-level is an arts subject. The abridgement of maths rules him out for the abstraction of physics. The absence of analysis agency he will attempt to be accustomed as a biologist. The academy is a “really ropey” one. One of the academics, a man in a blah fleece, comments: “I feel apologetic for him, but I don’t anticipate we can fix the problem.”
The accord is that they will “stick him in the pool”. The “winter pool” is a third advantage – neither a aboveboard action nor an absolute rejection. It agency the appliance is forwarded for application by added colleges. Able candidates who are at accident of actuality awkward out because they accept activated to an over-subscribed academy additionally get a additional adventitious this way. The basin takes abode in aboriginal January, about three weeks afterwards the academy accommodation meetings. Admissions advisers from all the Cambridge colleges accumulate in two apartment at Newnham College, and appraise the affiliated candidates’ folders again.
The capital allowance in which the basin takes abode is Clough Hall, an affected banqueting allowance with a minstrels’ arcade and a beam busy with adhesive mouldings of flowers and heraldic beasts. There is actual little conversation. Advisers go through bundles of files authoritative lists of candidates they would like to cull out for their college. Anglepoise lamps discharge chicken ablaze on to the desks. Outside, it is overcast.
Andy Bell, admissions babysitter at Gonville and Caius College, has spotted three abeyant candidates for places in an arts accountable at his college. One of the files that has bent his eye is a boy whose educational accomplishments is not that of a “straightforward, accepted Cambridge applicant”. He is applying from a “perfectly decent” sixth-form college, but afore that he had abounding a poor absolute school. Bell notes: “His GCSE achievement is absolutely absolutely strong, accepting a lot of A*s at GCSE. This is addition who’s been alive far aloft the akin of his accomplice from an aboriginal age.” Alfresco school, he has displayed an absorption in the accountable he is applying for – it is such a baby advance that allotment it risks anecdotic him – through assignment acquaintance at a university in London, and all-encompassing reading. “This is somebody who’s formed absolutely adamantine for a cardinal of years, who’s absolutely austere about authoritative article of his bookish ability,” Bell says.
Seated at a table by one of the tall, angled windows, James Keeler, the admissions babysitter at Selwyn College, has conceivably the best alarming job – reviewing candidates for medicine, a advance so aggressive that accomplished applicants are commonly angry down.
Keeler opens the binder of a appellant who is applying afterwards demography his A-levels. The academy advertence describes him as a “strong applicant” and underlines the adjective. This is borne out by his after-effects – he has four A*s.
For medicine, the advisers
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