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Undergraduate Profiles

Steve Lundy attended St. Olave's Grammar School, a state school in Orpington, Kent, where he was able to take Latin at both GCSE and A level. He has learnt Greek at Oxford. It was quite late in his school career that he decided to take his interest in Classics further.... read more >>


Maude Croucher came to Oxford from Cotham School, a comprehensive school in Bristol. She decided to take Classical Civilization A level after a trip to Rome when she was sixteen, and she moved schools after GCSE to a school which offered it. Maude applied for Classics II, our course designed for applicants who haven't had an opportunity to study Latin or Greek to A Level, or at all.... read more >>


Nirupa Manoharan is studying Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (a new course now in its second year). She came to Oxford from the Henrietta Barnett School, a state grammar school in London, where she sat A levels in English Literature, Government and Politics and Ancient History.... read more >>


Gabriel Carnwath took A levels in Latin, History and English Literature at Loreto Grammar School, a state grammar school at Altrincham near Manchester. She started Latin at age 13, and taught herself Greek to GCSE whilst a sixth-former, continuing it once at Oxford as a Classics IB candidate.... read more >>


Ben Cole attended Sherborne School, an independent school in Dorset. He started learning Latin at age ten and Greek at fourteen.... read more >>


Tom Devine is studying Classics and Modern Languages, one of the joint schools available at Oxford (along with Classics and English, Classics and Oriental Studies and Ancient and Modern History). He attended Norwich School, an independent day school. He had a lot of possible options for university degree, but settled on Latin and French.... read more >>