r0b0d0c t1_itep6di wrote on October 23, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Reply to comment by panchoop in [OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there. by pacmanpill

I'd agree if the difference was 2X or even 10X, but 330X is outrageous. Plugging some numbers in shows how ridiculous these figures are. The 330X figure doesn't even make sense for a baseline acceptance rate greater than 1/330 = 0.3%, in which case the acceptance rate if your father attended would be 100%. More reasonable numbers would be 0.15% vs 50% or 0.075% vs 25%. Bottom line: either these numbers are wrong by a metric fuck-ton, or someone at ENA is pulling some strings. My guess is the former.

Edit: My Google machine tells me that the admission rate to ENA is 8%, so the 330X figure would be possible if at least 99.98% of admissions were legacy admissions.

Iridium6626 t1_itfnjd1 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 8:19 AM

I suppose the 330x is in comparison with a random person in the country, it seems logical that a son of someone that didn’t went to something like the X will be less likely to be interested in longer studies

glium t1_itiaq35 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 9:11 PM

The study should just be interpreted as, a random person is extremely unlikely to go to ENA, while for the children of alumni it is quite likely

r0b0d0c t1_itip74r wrote on October 23, 2022 at 10:49 PM

If that's the case, then these statistics are meaningless. They're comparing apples and pizza.