I’m at state school but next year I’ll be at Harvard

Of the 5,000 Brits studying as undergraduates in America, an alarmingly small amount come from low and middle income homes. Now 43 students, sponsored by the Sutton Trust, have been accepted into a total of 28 institutions, four at Harvard, four at Princetown and two at Yale. More than half of them come from households that earn less than £25,000 a year and for the vast majority (86 per cent) they will be the first in their family to go to university. Between them they have been offered $10m in financial aid from the universities for the next four years, meaning that many of them will graduate with little to no debt.

We caught up with 6 of these high-achievers to chat about their success in the past year, and their hopes for their future, as they prepare to take the big leap across the pond.

Read the interviews here.