A GROUP of schoolmates have one foot through the door at the country’s most prestigious universities after receiving offers from Oxbridge.

Three Burgess Hill School for Girls students have been offered conditional places at Oxford or Cambridge.

Holly Tasker is to study medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Sally Emerson is to study maths at Homerton College, Cambridge and Harriet Jenner is to study French at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

This year, 59 girls have applied to study 42 different subjects at universities both in the UK and abroad. Students have submitted applications to read 285 different courses through UCAS, 88% at Russell Group universities.

Sixth formers were also encouraged to explore different routes into top careers with Sarah Lane achieving a position on auditors KPMG’s school leaver programme.

Alexandra Wright applied for a laboratory apprenticeship programme to study microbiology at global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline.

Lily Williams has secured a $20,000 grant to study music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and Maggie Tse has been offered a scholarship to read accounting and finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Nick Dyson, head of sixth form, said: “The range of offers received by our girls this year has been exceptional.

“This is a testimony to the standard of applications made as a result of the sterling work the girls and the higher education team put into preparing UCAS forms and personal statements.

“Once again we must congratulate every single girl for the individual brilliance ably demonstrated in their approach to each application process.”