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I don't see why not. The opportunities are there. Oxford and Cambridge are more than willing to take on state school kids who perform well and they some drive to succeed. One of my best friends from school lives on a council estate in Kentish Town, his father's a minicab driver and his mother's a housewife. He got in to Cambridge to do Economics. He's half Malaysian, half Filipino, too, so that's race out of the equation. He got it through pure hard work.