Laura Pickering

Laura read History at Trinity College, Oxford. After graduating, she worked for a year on a charity graduate management programme, before joining Oxbridge Applications. Laura oversees Oxbridge Applications’ marketing, working on the company’s website, social media and publications, including a monthly newsletter and weekly student updates.

Founded in 1999 by Oxbridge graduates, Oxbridge Applications has supported over 55,000 students and now works with approximately 15% of Oxbridge applicants every year. The company works with schools, local authorities and individual applicants to deliver subject-specific mentoring, workshops, admissions test support and mock interviews throughout the year. The organisations also carries out research on the applications process to advise students, teachers and parents and has a wealth of free resources on their website www.oxbridgeapplications.com. They also run an annual bursary scheme, where they support, for free, over 100 students in receipt of government financial support. This year they published the fourth edition of their acclaimed book ‘So you want to go to Oxbridge? Tell me about a banana’, and last year published 'Think you can think? Cracking the Thinking Skills Assessment' - a guide on how to think logically and excel in the TSA Oxford and TSA Cambridge tests.