From Year 3 to their first day at university.
Emma Taylor
Universities & Oxbridge Lead, Go To Many
- CambridgeJesus College graduate
- 13 yearsin the classroom
- 7 yearsleading Oxbridge and medical applications
- Yr 12–13plus KS3 and KS4
Most families are handed guidance in fragments. A tutor here. A leaflet there. And then, at seventeen, a young person is expected to talk about themselves to an Oxford interviewer.
Why this matters to us
The questions do not stop. They change.
Go To Many did not start as a business idea. It started with a parent working out the private and selective school system alone, without a network, without anyone to ask.
We built the Parent Journey so that no family has to do the same. It begins in the primary years, with numeracy and literacy, tutoring and 11+ preparation. It carries on through admissions, bursaries, interviews and settling in.
But the questions do not stop when a child is offered a place.
Is she picking the right A-Levels? What is a super-curricular, and why does everyone keep saying it? Should he even be applying to Oxford? Is that for people like us?
Emma is the answer to those questions. With her on the team, the support we offer runs from Year 3 all the way to university entrance. One family. One community. One continuous Parent Journey.
Meet Emma
She got to Cambridge from an under-represented background.
Emma Taylor graduated from Jesus College, University of Cambridge in 2011. Neither of her parents went to university, she received the Education Maintenance Allowance for lower-income families, and she was the only student in her year at Franklin College, Grimsby to get an offer from Cambridge.
She has spent 13 years in the classroom, serving as Head of Philosophy and Head of Politics in different schools. She is currently Head of Politics and Scholars’ Programme Coordinator at the Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS), where for seven years she has led the school’s Oxbridge and Medical programme.
That matters here, and it is the reason we asked her to join us. Emma knows the version of the application process that nobody prints in a prospectus: the feeling of being the only one in the room, of not knowing the vocabulary everyone else seems born with, of wondering whether an offer is really meant for you. She is honest with students and with parents about all of it. She is also living proof of the answer.
- University of Cambridge outreach
- Designs and delivers the Enrichment Curriculum for the Academic Attainment Programme at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, since 2022. It has expanded every year because it has been proven to improve skills, confidence and university offers for under-represented groups.
- Professional institutions
- Oxbridge admissions officers, the Philosophy Foundation, chief examiners, Government Events, The Politics Project, councillors, MPs, Lords, Parliament, judges, civil servants, and NACE, the National Association for Able Children in Education.
- Teacher training
- Trains teachers, including trainees, in state schools to stretch and challenge students to reach their potential: adapting for special educational needs, building public speaking, and careers-linked learning.
Emma has sat on both sides of the table. She has been the student who did not fit the mould, and she has been the person preparing students for the interview.
What Emma brings
In schools, alongside Lisa
Lisa takes parents through the early years: preparation, tutoring, selective school applications, bursaries and the true cost of it all. Emma takes them through what comes next, and shows them where the road ends up. Parents leave the room understanding the whole map, not just the next step.
For students in Year 12 and Year 13
- Oxbridge admissions support: a step-by-step route through the application. Personal statements, admissions tests, interview technique, and super-curricular activity that actually counts.
- Politics and Philosophy A-Level preparation: a close read of what the specifications really demand, plus essay planning and revision techniques that meet them.
- Philosophical and political analysis: interactive, discursive sessions that stretch students well beyond the A-Level syllabus, drawing unexpected lines between politics, religion, architecture, physics, classics, psychology, board games and more.
- Academic skills: oracy, critical thinking, logic and validity, independent research, choosing the right course, and managing academic pressure.
- Mock interviews: run in the format of the real thing, with feedback on the answer and on how it was argued.
For younger students
We do not wait until Year 12. Emma is helping us build a joined-up pathway from Key Stage 3 and 4, so that a child in Year 7 is already quietly on the road, long before anyone uses the word “application”.
For schools and staff
- Teacher training on challenging every student within the curriculum
- Consultancy on stretching students beyond it
- Support for staff delivering mock interviews
- Joined-up Oxbridge preparation for KS3 and KS4
In their own words
Students Emma has prepared
“Participation in the programme thoroughly prepared me for the Oxford application process... the regular mock interviews significantly reduced my nervousness when it came to the real interview. I wholeheartedly recommend this programme to all students interested in applying to Oxbridge.”
A.H.
2025 offer, Law with French Law, Oxford
“It was great that the programme started so early in Year 12... The thorough and dedicated sessions on personal statements and interviews gave me invaluable guidance. I think this programme is very important, and my cohort were incredibly lucky to have a teacher like Miss Taylor running it.”
T.B.
2025 offer, Geography, Oxford
“The main way it helped was my personal statement — the motivation to start writing early, the many redrafts, and the guidance on what is best to include.”
S.G.
2025 offer, Physical Natural Sciences, Oxford
“The main thing I have to say on the Oxbridge programme is that it was incredibly helpful to have the opportunity to practice interview skills during the sessions, and more importantly to have mock interviews prior to the actual one, as it helped me feel more calm and prepared on the actual day of my interviews.”
Danielle Edelstein
HSPS, Cambridge, matriculating 2026
“The Oxbridge and Medics programme was really beneficial for me, both for motivation and for understanding each stage involved in the application process. Ms Taylor supported me in various ways. She paired me with mentors in subjects of my interest, which helped me choose which course was best suited for me. When writing personal statements, she helped explain the new structure needed, and gave us example paragraphs, explaining what made them stand out. In preparing for interviews, she made time for each student to have a mock interview, with questions and feedback even outside her subject specialty. I know that I would not have been nearly as prepared or satisfied with my university application if it weren’t for this programme.”
Mika Haber
Biological Natural Sciences, Cambridge, matriculating 2026
For schools
Bring the Parent Journey to your school
We deliver Parent Journey talks in schools across London. 45 minutes, followed by an open Q&A, with no jargon and no assumptions about what a family already knows.
Schools that work alongside Go To Many see their pupils go further. We do the part a school does not have the hours for: engaging parents directly, guiding families through selective school admissions, bursaries and university applications, and staying with them year after year. Your staff keep teaching. We handle the pathway, and your pupils end up at the top schools and universities their ability has always deserved.
Headteachers: we would love to talk to you about running a session for your parents. Email info@gotomany.co.uk.
Talk to us about a school session
We will come to you. 45 minutes, an open Q&A, and a room of parents who leave knowing what the next ten years look like.