An interesting point from Bri W, when I went to the above establishment out of the 6 engineers in my year/college only one went to a public school. I'm not sure how much it depends on the college/subject or even the tutors doing the interviewing. When we questioned our tutors later on in the course on why they had accepted us they said that we were all academically able, but on top of this they thought they would enjoy tutoring us, it wasn't just based on grades that had been acheived, or that they expected us to acheive at University.
I think trying to apply the old class system is meaningless to modern society.
Myself I'm state school educated to parents who were interested in my upbringing and who worked hard to afford a comfortable home life. Did I benefit from this situation? - Yes. Did I work hard when it mattered at school and Uni and later? - Yes, so I'm comfortably off. Am I going to apologise for this, no
What class am I? I don't care/don't know and don't give a flying f*ck what class people think I am. I have friends from all walks of life and am happy getting on and enjoying it.
BTW I'm working today, so I think (therefore I am) working class
