Helping Son get to Oxbridge

[Akaur1]

My youngest has started AS level this year, he has always been bright and wants to go to Oxford but I'm not sure how to help me.

He loves Maths and has always been academically talented, he's not sure what he wants to do but looking at a career relating to finance/banking in future.

He went to standard comp and now in a sixth form, can anyone help me with advice on how I can best help my son now to get ready for apply for university and what could help give him the edge compared to other kids whom will be apply from private school's etc.

Important question: is he doing further maths? He'll really struggle with maths at all the top unis without it (I did maths at Imperial). If he isn't speak to the school now, some can fiddle timetables around so he can sit the whole lot in upper sixth.

Other than that being quick thinking and doing well in the interview exam is all it really relies on.

Does he know he can only apply to one and has to pick a specific college? They organise open "days" for lower sixth students to spend a couple of days wandering around the colleges and departments. I seem to recall these being after A/S exams but before the summer holidays...

And its not the end of the world if he doesn't get in: I know that something like 1/3 of all Imperial students went into finance so its not only Oxbridge.