> and for the part they don’t, well how your parent raised you should matter I think you nailed it. There's a strong cultural component to doing well in schoo

> and for the part they don’t, well how your parent raised you should matter I think you nailed it. There's a strong cultural component to doing well in school. Just the parent's perception of schooling matters a lot (is reading for fun something they do or encourage?). And of course there's a lot of implicit knowledge about test taking and what really matters at school. Someone who navigated these exams before will be a much better guide for sure. > By preventing elite high school from selecting their own students, by creating as many parallel admissions to colleges that were purely competitive exams based. How much of that is to increase racial diversity? > On the other side the obsession of the French with education is unhealthy, where your career at 50 is still determined by an exam you sit 30 years before, and this tendency of having clubs within clubs for the elite to run the country with little competence or accountability Maybe that's why there are so many French expats here in the Valley!