FOUR students from Queen Margaret's School in Escrick, near York, are set to take up places at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

Rachel O'Brien has received an unconditional offer to read history at Hertford College, and Noelle Sugiyama a conditional offer to study economics and management at St Hilda's College, both at Oxford.

Victoria Argyle and Lisa Hoole have received conditional offers for Cambridge, Victoria to read modern languages at St John's College and Lisa to study biological sciences at Girton College.