On Wednesday 3 March, over 300 Year 9 - 11 students joined a zoom call to hear about applying to Oxbridge. The School were delighted to welcome five Old Haberdashers to the call who discussed their own academic journey:

• Harry Kingdon, OH 2015 - Philosophy at Cambridge
• Hugo Murphy, OH 2016 - English at Oxford and a MA at Cambridge
• Jordan Bernstein, OH 2016 - Law at Oxford
• Rohan Oyewole, OH 2020 - PPE at Oxford
• Josh Kaye, OH 2020 - Maths at Cambridge

Josh’s best suggestion to our aspiring applications was to enjoy getting confused. He talked about the art of problem solving and using YouTube to discover new and challenging problems. This matched with Hugo’s love of grappling with difficult ideas and the joy of reading literary reviews.

Other tips included not to rule anything out, to prepare early and enjoy becoming an independent thinker. In true Habs style, the panel were put through their paces with a quick-fire round of questions at the end. One Year 9 parent wrote: ‘it was a pleasure listening to the OHs who spoke with such openness and enthusiasm’. 

It was a wonderful evening and the School would like to thank the OH panel for their time and good humour. Best of luck to our future Oxbridge applicants.