You don't need a posh name for Oxford or Cambridge, but it does seem to help

Having an ancient name still counts for something at Oxford and Cambridge, it appears.
Celebration time for such Berkeleys, Darcys and Talbots who aspire to an Oxbridge education: new research from the LSE finds that Norman names such as these remain over-represented on the student rolls at Oxford and Cambridge, 1,000 years after they were imported by a conquering elite. No such encouragement, though, for people called Boorman or Ledwell who, the study shows, have failed to reap the

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