All great universities need diversity. Because it is in diversity, in the debate of ideas, in the confrontation of cultures and know-how that the best ideas are born. It’s because Yale or Harvard or Stanford need students who can create, innovate, reflect, contradict, doubt and challenge.

These universities, like all the others, are looking for a variety of profiles. Students who speak a third language perfectly. Students who have studied philosophy, history and literature even though they are scientists. Students who are wise and know how to articulate a reasoning. In this sense, students preparing for the French baccalauréat have every chance of gaining access to the major European and American schools, all of which recognize the quality of this diploma.

Today, there are hundreds of French students in the most prestigious American schools. They were able to access them because their background and their training are different. Because the worst mistake would be to try to be like everyone else. The French education system and the baccalaureate give them the chance to be seen and appreciated at their true value.