An overhaul of university admissions processes – including an end to making offers based on predicted A level grades and a review of personal statements – is being urged in a new Sutton Trust research report which shows that the brightest disadvantaged students are losing out in the current system. The report, Rules of the Game, by Dr Gill Wyness, Senior Lecturer in Economics of Education at the UCL Institute of Education, says that the admission process itself may be responsible for the fact that the most advantaged applicants were six times more likely to get into selective universities than the most disadvantaged in 2016.

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