Of course, if you host a week long "this is Cambridge" type thing for black and Asian school kids, their experience of Cambridge -- being surrounded by a large number of black and Asian school kids and Cambridge graduates -- is impressively divorced from the reality they will find if they later study there.
Elsewhere I see that the year's "Oxford/Cambridge/Bristol/whatever reject World's Best Student" stories have started already. This one has pledged to become the second woman in history to win the Nobel peace prize. No harm in having ambition, I suppose. Cambridge spokesrobot says:
"The University of Cambridge is committed to admitting students of the highest intellectual potential, irrespective of social, racial, religious and financial considerations.
"We can not comment on individual cases, but would like to wish Ms Clarke every success in her future."
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