**who have a second home near enough to attend.
Even if it was true that every student there was in the top 5%, there are only enough Oxbridge places for ~1% of undergraduates so the base rate is 5-1 against
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I can’t believe someone seriously makes this argument when private school kids make up 7% of students but ~40% of Oxbridge intake. Going to private school is still a massive advantage, just slightly less than it was a decade ago
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And that reduced advantage is against a backdrop of structural forces which make coming from wealth an even more potent force given persistence of economic rank across generations through various channels.
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