I’ll be first in my family to attend university
MIRANA Kqiku, 18, is set to become the first person in her family to go to university v after she received an offer to study French at Oriel College, Oxford.
She had never seriously c considered applying to Oxbridge before moving to the London Academy o of Excellence last year.
She said: ‘When I came t to this school and I saw people go there I thought, “I could do it”.’
Mirana – whose parents m moved to London from Kosovo, and whose first language is Albanian – gave up Friday evenings to practise interviews.
She said: ‘I got to go to Eton, where we had interviews with the staff.
‘Every Friday we would interview each other and talk about our subjects and current affairs. It built my confidence up.’
Mirana said she was looking forward to the ‘whole experience’ at Oxford, adding: ‘It’s a bit scary, but I’m excited.’