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Telemaq t1_ithhkpl wrote

Reply to comment by Creep2Crazies 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

Are the prépas for the Grandes Écoles different from the regular prépas (for example maths sup for an engineering school)?

I am not saying the inequalities are inexistent, especially when it comes to the financial situation. But thinking rigueur doesn’t apply to those applicants and they can just coast through because of their background as the OP implied is disingenuous.

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Telemaq t1_itezldy wrote

Reply to [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

Admissions are based on admission exams. No university is going to admit someone just because their daddy made a big donation to get their kids in.

Being from a family of ingénieurs, doctors or pilots doesn’t take any merit away. Kids get inspired by their parents, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they follow their parents footstep.

But yes, if you are from a family of pilots, you may have step ahead everyone else by being introduced to the field at a younger age. But you still have to put in the work required and just cannot coast along.

This is where the entrance exams come in to level the field as much as possible to give everyone a fair chance.

This graph is bullshit anyways with no source cited for the data, if misspelling of noble didn’t tell us that already. Poteau de merde.

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Telemaq t1_itezhtj wrote

Reply to comment by pacmanpill 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

Admissions are based on admission exams. No university is going to admit someone just because their daddy made a big donation to get their kids in.

Being from a family of ingénieurs, doctors or pilots doesn’t take any merit away. Kids get inspired by their parents, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they follow their parents footstep.

But yes, if you are from a family of pilots, you may have step ahead everyone else by being introduced to the field at a younger age. But you still have to put in the work required and just cannot coast along.

This is where the entrance exams come in to level the field as much as possible to give everyone a fair chance.

This graph is bullshit anyways with no source cited for the data, if misspelling of noble didn’t tell us that already. Poteau de merde.

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