Access to Oxbridge

SIR – In suggesting that Oxbridge colleges should “take into account a broad range of factors”, rather than focusing on exam results, to allow for more diversity (report, June 6), is the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, saying that applicants with stellar A level results should be turned down to make way for disadvantaged applicants with lower grades?

In previous decades, no concessions whatsoever were made for applicants from grammar schools in disadvantaged areas. They got their places on the same basis as applicants from top public schools.

Surely the onus should not be on Oxbridge to increase diversity but on state schools to up their game.

Moya St Leger Twickenham, Middlesex