"A student has sent her own rejection letter to a prestigious university criticising it for "intimidating" pupils from comprehensive school backgrounds during the interview process. Elly Nowell, from Winchester, Hampshire, wrote in her letter to Oxford University that using "grand formal settings" for the interviews allowed public school applicants to "flourish". The 19-year-old, who studied at Brockenhurst College, had applied to Magdalen College to read law (jurisprudence). Parodying a standard university rejection letter, she wrote: "I have now considered your establishment as a place to read Law (jurisprudence). "I very much regret to inform you that I will be withdrawing my application."
PS For US readers, "public schools" in the UK means private schools in the US.
PS For US readers, "public schools" in the UK means private schools in the US.
