All the plucky, regular-person stuff you’d have put on such a form in the 90s – I helped an old lady once; I have a babysitting syndicate; I’m a keen crocheter – is completely out. Today’s applicant can be a lieutenant of 10 years’ standing in the climate activist army, with three A* predictions, but still conclude mournfully that everyone’s been on 20 Extinction Rebellion marches, and you’ll only stand out if you’ve been on the flotilla with Greta Thunberg. They have this madly impressive private school kid in their heads who spent the summer in Beijing interning for the Central Military Commission, and maybe they’re right, but when you tell them that admissions tutors can also read, and will be able to decipher the word “Eton”, they don’t believe you.