Chinese boy, 14, wins place at Oxford with top grades
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Your support makes all the difference.Yinan Wang, a pupil at Copland Community College in Brent, north-west London - one of the country's biggest comprehensive schools - will read material sciences at Corpus Christi college.
Yesterday he learned he had obtained A passes in maths, further maths and physics.
Yinan, who received his results by e-mail in China, where he is on holiday, will live in rented accommodation with his family while at Oxford as he is too young to qualify for student accommodation.
He is one of the youngest students at Oxford since Ruth Lawrence, who became its youngest-ever maths graduate - also at the age of 14. He first arrived in the UK two years ago when his father took up a job in this country.
Copland has a reputation for teaching ethnic minority students - 96 per cent of its pupils are from ethnic-minority backgrounds. Sir Alan Davies, the headteacher, said: "We are proud of Yinan's achievement - just as we are of all our other successes."
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