“HEC, admitted without the codes”, on Arte: the hopes and doubts of three young “transclasses”

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"You have to study so you don't have to endure your job later!" The daughter of a postal worker and a temporary show business worker, Isabelle, an aspiring soccer player and model student, has responded to her family's injunction. She joins HEC Paris, the misnamed, most selective French business school, whose campus is lost in Jouy-en-Josas in the Yvelines. In the same class arrives Victor, a biker from Bucco-Rhône, who holds a technical baccalaureate (science and technology of management and administration). And then there's also Tom, a musician and, above all, a fishmonger, like his mother and ancestors.

Documentary filmmakers Camille Poulain (herself a graduate of HEC) and Jules Giraudat were able to accompany the first steps of these three young people, who have in common the fact that they come from families who did not pursue higher education, in what will be their alma mater .

The camera discreetly intrudes on the moments that punctuate the students' lives: induction evening, classes, student office training, sports, and networking. These sequences alternate with the three young people's reflections on their journey. "What am I doing here?" Isabelle asks after the welcome speech by Eloïc Peyrache, the school's director, who promises that his school "will give them a taste for being leaders!"

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