<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>Are any of you familiar with the French school system? </p>
<p>I really would love to study in France - that's something I've always wanted. The Grandes </p>
<p>Are you in high school right now? Or college? Do you want to get a degree or just study for a year?</p>
<p>Ecole Normale Superieure (Ulm) has exchange programs with a group of (fairly elite) American universities: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Amherst, UChicago, Berkeley, Stanford and a few others. It used to be, that some of these schools required you to be a graduate student, others would send seniors/just-graduates, but I don't know if that is still the case.</p>
<p>marite, who posts frequently on this board, knows it very well. If she does not show up here, you could PM her.</p>
<p>Nope. Having gone from France to US, I don't know how an American student could prepare for one of the Grandes Ecoles. Louis Le Grand and Henri IV have always been incredibly difficult to get into. If you have an IB, it might be easier to get into one of the hypokhagne sites. But I don't know the procedures.</p>
<p>Katliamom and marite:</p>
<p>Thank you for the answers.</p>
<p>I am in high school (17 years old). Actually I would like not only to study one year abroad, but to get my degree in France. What I'm considering is the Classe Pr</p>
<p>Wouldn't you have to get your Bac before going into an hypokhagne? You could enquire about enrolling in one of the private lycees, which are not that expensive (at least compared to American prep schools). There is a good wikipedia entry about the French secondary system you should check out.</p>
<p>also this: [url=<a href="http://www.etudier-en-france.com/version_francaise/francais/partie_1/ecole_enseignement.php%5DEtudier-en-france.com">http://www.etudier-en-france.com/version_francaise/francais/partie_1/ecole_enseignement.php]Etudier-en-france.com</a>, le guide des </p>
<p>You might want to consider waiting for graduate school. There are a number of US graduate programs that have joint degrees with some of the Grandes Ecoles - Sciences Po, for example, and some of the business schools. I don't know about literature though.</p>
<p>I actually went through the Ecoles Preparatoires (Louis Le Grand) and Grandes Ecoles (Ecole Polytechnique) back in the 70s. I am a swedish citizen but my situation was unusual as I grew up and was a permanent resident in France taking the regular french Baccalaureat. </p>
<p>Entering some of the top Ecoles Preparatoires like Louis Le Grand is actually tougher than many of the Grandes Ecoles themselves as the competition is fierce among high school graduates and admission largely based on grades + bac results. Louis Le Grand is the most selective of all prepas as it gets a disproportionate number of students into the top Grandes Ecoles. It is located literally across the street from the Sorbonne.
[url=<a href="http://240plan.ovh.net/%7Elouisleg/albedo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=31%5DSite">http://240plan.ovh.net/~louisleg/albedo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=31]Site</a> du lyc</p>
<p>Can any one discuss the new changes in the admission to Scienece Po that were just announced in October? I am interested in hearing about French student admission straingt out of Lycee. Are there any review classes available for the tests in June for admissions, not the Prepas, just the test they give after the Bac?</p>