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Students score US university success

Higher education
Forty-three British state school students from low and middle-income homes have won places to study at America’s top universities via the Sutton Trust charity.

Among them are Jack Tait, 18, from Highams Park School in Chingford, who has been offered a place at Princeton in New Jersey. He will be the first in his family to attend university.

Kerry O’Neil, 17, from Notre Dame High School in Glasgow, will also be the first in her family when she attends the University of Pennsylvania.

In total, the 43 have won places at 28 different institutions via the early admissions deadline, including four at Havard, four at Princeton and two at Yale.

More UK students will be applying by the regular January deadlines, with results available later this spring.

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