{"id":57340,"date":"2019-01-22T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57340"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T16:17:19","slug":"im-mixed-race-is-cambridge-university-right-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57340","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m mixed-race, is Cambridge University right for me?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-46950952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>&#8216;I&#8217;m mixed-race, is Cambridge University right for me?&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-46950952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/41BC\/production\/_105282861_queens976976.jpg\" alt=\"Anoushka looking round Cambridge University\" width=\"400\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Anoushka Mutanda Dougherty has been offered a place at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Cambridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge University<\/a>, but she&#8217;s mixed-race and from a state school &#8211; and only 3% of students who started at Cambridge in 2017 were black, or mixed-race with black heritage. So is it the best place for her? At this point, she&#8217;s not sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English-speaking_world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English-speaking world<\/a>. Cambridge is the fourth-oldest surviving university in the world. Cambridge has produced, so far, 90 Nobel prize winners &#8211; and Cambridge, this educational powerhouse, just might not be where I want to go. At least, that&#8217;s how I feel right now, a week after finding out that I got a place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-46950952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anoushka Mutanda Dougherty has been offered a place at Cambridge University, but she&#8217;s mixed-race and from a state school &#8211; and only 3% of students who started at Cambridge in 2017 were black, or mixed-race with black heritage. So is it the best place for her? At this point, she&#8217;s not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,2895,8,10],"tags":[29290,8597,29289],"class_list":["post-57340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-anoushka-mutanda-dougherty","tag-bbc-news","tag-cambridge-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57342,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions\/57342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}