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LE AV E RS U niversit y y E ntr 2018 L E AV E RS ’ D E S T IN AT IO N S Leavers 2016 Leavers 2017 There will be 216 university entrants this year from Sevenoaks School to leading universities across the world. Seventy-eight per cent took up a place at one of the Russell Group universities. Of these, 37 Sennockians are taking up places at Oxford or Cambridge, while 49 are taking up places at one of the London colleges including LSE, UCL, KCL and Imperial. Other popular university destinations were Durham, Exeter, Bristol, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Warwick, St Andrews and Bath. This year 19 students took up places at US or Canadian universities, including Yale, Stanford and McGill, with ten going to universities within Europe and Hong Kong. The Sciences and STEM remain a popular subject choice (58 students), followed by Economics, Business 20 and Finance (30), Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (24), History, Politics and International Relations (20) and Combined Honours and Liberal Arts (19). Modern, Classical and Middle Eastern Languages continue to attract large numbers of applicants (13 in 2018), as does Law (12). This year ten students will study Psychology and Sociology, and ten Creative and Performing Arts. Thirty-one 2018 leavers will be taking a gap year, some of whom are holding deferred entry offers, with one student entering an apprenticeship. With the competition for the top places remaining fierce, this is a tremendous record of achievement, and we wish all our new undergraduates every success in their higher education and future careers. Wendy Heydorn Director of the Institute for Higher Education and Professional Insight HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW Name Degree Destination Jack Clarke Management The University of Warwick Sarah Dodds Biochemistry with Professional Placement University of Birmingham Evgeny Dunaev International Development King’s College London Sophia Robinson English University College London Yasmin Whiteford English University College London Jemima Barr Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Victoria Bell Computer Science University of Nottingham John Broomfield History Christ’s College, Cambridge Clare Cooke Philosophy and Politics with Study Abroad University of Exeter Jasmine Coomber Natural Sciences Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Mier Foo Arts and Sciences University College London Michael Freeman Chemistry Worcester College, Oxford James Gray Law University of Bristol Thomas Harrison French and Italian (Year Abroad) University of St Andrews James Headington Animation University of Greenwich Joseph Healy History London School of Economics Helen Jones Physics Worcester College, Oxford Matthew Judge Psychology University of Bristol Sehee Lim Music King’s College London Olivia Lloyd-Williams Medicine University College London Joshua Marza Mathematics St Catherine’s College, Oxford Lila Mendoza Philosophy University of Edinburgh SEVENOAKS SCHOOL 2017-2018 21