Comments on: Les Grandes Ecoles

By: Justin614

Justin614 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:48:17 +0000

The Grande Ecoles in Paris seem similar to Ivy League schools in the U.S. If you attend an Ivy League school you are considered smarter than everyone else. Most students would love to go to one but few are accepted. However they do offer some of the best educations in the world better than the Grande Ecoles.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:47:34 +0000

This article conveys a very superficial understanding of french society. French society values “success” in a very different way than in Anglo-Saxon countries. For instance, in the US someone that is successful professionally is typically viewed as someone who is better than the average american in most aspects including at a personal level. Whereas in France, people can deem someone to be successful professionally but consider him a douche. That is why politics in the US must have a clean track in their personal life whereas in France their personal life doesn’t matter. In France, people distinguish between the the personal and professional more than in other countries. Hence, if you notice people getting recognition in France for going to a top school, it’s because people don’t rank themselves in such a simplistic way. It’s simply shows that that person is very smart to get through the competitiveness of the recruiting process of top schools. Point is, someone that graduates from a top school in France is viewed as a proven very intelligent person, but that doesn’t make him superior to the people. French people are much more critical than that.

By: Laurentiu

Laurentiu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:20:51 +0000

This makes me very curious. Which would be the attitude of Parisians to graduates of the Elite anglo-saxon schools ? How would they feel about People from oxbridge or harvard or MIT ? While taking a master in ParisI found the French Grande Ecole students I’ve met to be very friendly and nice people…

By: James J. O'Meara, "Stuff Our Betters Like" | Counter-Currents Publishing

James J. O'Meara, "Stuff Our Betters Like" | Counter-Currents Publishing — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:17:15 +0000

[...] art degrees are almost unknown, a pretty good idea it seems to me) unlike the busy graduates of the grandes Ecoles; the Parisian loves not art but his idea of France’s cultural heritage — and stuff you only [...]

By: Max

Max — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:49:34 +0000

When you say that most parisians feel uncomfortable about not graduating from a grande ecole, are basing that fact on statistical data?

By: The Auto-dictée | Maternal Dementia

The Auto-dictée | Maternal Dementia — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:54:04 +0000

[...] not a tightly-wound gang bent on steering our children toward the grands écoles. Most of us (I think) are just trying to help our kids keep up. Or more important: not to be [...]

By: Anaïs

Anaïs — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:35:34 +0000

I noticed there is a new attitude toward les Grandes Ecoles growing in the parisian “bobo” milieu which is to say that les Grandes Ecoles (particularly les écoles de Commerce) create des gens “formatés” who will only become part of the (scary) liberal system. I do not disagree, but the following words after this statement are usually “tu vois elle a fait l’ESSEC mais c’était pas épanouissant alors elle totalement changé de vie” then your interlocutor may mention that she owns a “green” production of cheese somewhere in the countryside, which in some way the summum of the bobo attitude (to my point of view)

By: JoAnn

JoAnn — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:07:57 +0000

Hello would appreciate your opinion. I have a student I am mentoring… he spent a veryy successful year in the US and high school exchange student, sailed competitive internationally for years and is truly a global citizen, although French. he has gooten into Dauphine, waiting for Sciences Po, Reimes campus and alos gottne into St Jean Prepas in Lille. I would prefer to see him at SC Po or Dauphine startig now than prepsa given his maturity and level of international experiences in his life … any comments

By: Olivier Magny

Olivier Magny — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:26:19 +0000

Arianna… All good things then!
JoAnn… Ipesup is the best I believe.
Smeetha… I like your approach to things. Based on your comments, no question that Sciences Po is indeed based in St Germain!

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