Sciences Po Paris will abandon its entrance exam in spring 2021 in favor of an examination of the baccalaureate holders' academic records and an admission interview.
A revolution, already announced more than a year ago, that the director, Frédéric Mion, sometimes likes to present as a response to the crisis of “yellow vests”.
He hopes that this new admission will lead to students who did not dare to come forward.
The objective is also to increase the current rate of scholarship students from 25% to 30% while it reaches 40% in universities.
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In a France very attached to the anonymous competition, symbol of the republican ideal of meritocracy, some believe that Sciences Po Paris is in the process of introducing subjectivity into recruitment.
And that by favoring individual
“courses”
and other “
commitments
” rather than the competition, the admissions of archbishops' sons will multiply.
Sophie can attest to this, who herself wrote the cover letters for her daughter, going as far as
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