Students Placed with World-Class Universities

Students in the college’s Enhancing Excellence group have yet again reaped the rewards of all their hard work, sharp focus and determined motivation, backed by the support and advice of their subject teachers and Enhancing Excellence mentors.

Seven of these students have been fortunate enough to receive conditional places at Oxford and Cambridge University colleges. Another 30 have received offers, or are waiting to hear, from other universities in the worldwide top 30, such as Imperial College London, King’s College London, the University of Edinburgh, and UCL (University College London). We are immensely proud of these students and the diligence that each of these places represents.

This year, too, an unusual number (eight) of our Cambridge hopefuls were ‘pooled’. In other words, the interviewing tutors considered them worthy of a place at Cambridge but could not fit them into the successful cohort. So near and yet so far… but some of these students are already thinking of reapplying next year!

Student name	High School	A levels	Oxford or Cambridge	Degree course offered
Diana Bestwish Tetteh	Abbey Grange Church of England Academy	Art, Chemistry, English Literature, Politics	Oxford	English
Maia Hall	Abbey Grange Church of England Academy	Art, English Literature, Film Studies, French	Oxford	English
Grace Scanlon	Corpus Christi Catholic College	Biology, English Literature, Spanish	Oxford	English
Isla Gerrard	Woodkirk Academy	Biology, Law, Psychology, Extended Project Qualification	Oxford	Law
Sean Carey	Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School	Biology, Computer Science, Maths, Further Maths	Cambridge	Computer Science
Michael Heaney	Corpus Christi Catholic College	English Literature, History, Law	Cambridge	English
Omar Valeinis	Corpus Christi Catholic College	Economics, Maths, Further Maths, Physics	Oxford	Engineering