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‘Please remember we are not all brilliant’: undergraduates’ experiences of an elite, research‐intensive degree at a research‐intensive university

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Pages 405-420 | Received 24 Jul 2009, Accepted 17 Dec 2009, Published online: 18 Jun 2010

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