2019 Oxbridge Students
We are very pleased to announce that ten students have been offered places at Oxford and Cambridge Universities for this coming September. As part of the Oxbridge Programme, the College offers students regular sessions helping students with writing personal statements, interview techniques and preparing for interviews. We also offer subject specific support within departments, where heads of the department or designated staff members run special extension programmes enabling students to explore their subject in greater depth, often outsides of the confines of the syllabus. In addition to support offered within the College, visitors and representatives from both Oxford and Cambridge visit and run workshops on interviews, the application procedure and life at the university.
Mock interviews are also arranged and run within departments, although in some cases, experts within the students chosen field volunteer their time to run mock interviews. This year our Law applicants were warmly supported by Munday’s Solicitors in Cobham, and visiting professional Emily Collins worked with the Engineering and Physics students. We can’t thank them enough for their contribution to the students’ success. The students applying to Oxford have admissions tests and heads of departments and divisional heads run separate sessions to help them prepare. The Oxbridge programme at Esher College is run by our Oxbridge Coordinator, Shai Moghul. For further details, please contact smoghul@esher.ac.uk
Pictured above – top row, from left to right: Paula McGechan, formerly at Three Rivers Academy, (offered a place at Worcester College, Oxford to study Psychology and Linguistics), Freya Thomson, formerly at Teddington School, (received an open offer to study at Oxford, to study Law), Lois Whitelegg, formerly at Ricards Lodge, (offered a place at Homerton College, Cambridge to study Medicine) and James Stewart, formerly at Thamesmead School, (offered a place at Corpus Christi, Cambridge to study Maths (with Physics)). Bottom row, from left to right: Sam Whelan, formerly at Three Rivers Academy (offered a place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge to study Engineering) and Ben Jureidini, formerly at The Hall School, (offered a place at St John’s College, Oxford to study English Language and Literature). Not shown in photo: Michael Cottom, formerly at Coombe Boys’ School (offered a place at Somerville College, Oxford to study Music), Eleanor Tsoar, formerly at Coombe Girls’ School (offered a place at St Catherine’s College, Oxford to study Law, Luke Geoghegan, formerly at Sunbury Manor School, (offered a place at Queen’s College, Oxford to study History and Maddie Lynes, formerly at Teddington School, (offered a place to study at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge to study English).
