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In 2007, I left Moscow for my prépa
A French baccalauréat, studies in France, a classic path on paper. In real life, it was not that simple.
This recording is read by Constantin's voice, cloned by AI with Gradium. The words are his own.
Translated from French. Listen to the French original
Transcript
In 2007, I left Moscow to start my prépa, the preparatory classes, in Paris.
Obviously, everything went exactly as planned.
False.
I took my baccalauréat at the French high school in Moscow.
A few months later, I was moving back to France for my preparatory classes, while my parents stayed abroad as expats.
On paper: a French baccalauréat, studies in France, a classic path.
In real life: the admissions platform, called APB back then and Parcoursup today, the choices to make, a place to live to find, the freedom of living with no parents around.
In short: it wasn't that simple.
That is, among other things, why the question of what comes after high school for expat students matters so much to me.
At Axiom Academic, we created a country guide dedicated to France in our Higher Education Guide, to help French-speaking and international families see things more clearly.
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