A resident of a Tulse Hill estate who is to study medicine at university is hoping his success will inspire other young people in his community to aspire towards top grades and a professional career.
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Jermaine Wright, 18, from Coburg Crescent on the Palace Road estate, said: “I did not really have a role model when I was growing up. There were not many people from my age from my local community want to follow a profession like law or medicine.
“Even in studying so hard for these exams there were not many people striving to do the same thing as me. But I want to show everyone that you can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.”
Jermaine, one of a small number of boys studying a the sixth form of La Retraite Roman Catholic girls' school, got B grades in Maths, Biology, and Chemistry, and will now study medicine at Kings College London from this September.
He hopes to become a GP so he can “work in the local community.”
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