‘It changed my view’: the letter campaign urging pupils in deprived areas to try university

Kemi Adeyemi has written to sixth-form students to encourage them to consider higher education. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

“Dear Rahamat, first of all congratulations! I remember the day I got my GCSE results. The potential for your life to change has just begun.”

So begins a letter from a young medical student, Kemi Adeyemi, which has been sent to Rahamat and thousands of other sixth formers with top GCSE results in some of England’s most deprived areas, to encourage them to consider going on to university.