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I do not know the American system but in France there are no places reserved in the "Grandes Ecoles" of Engineers or business schools. I am only the son of a very small salesman of bicycles, I always attended only public schools and thus free and I had friends of promotion whose parents belonged to all social classes, farmers, workers, employees, teachers, traders, engineers and entrepreneurs.


It is true that it was 50 years ago and that since the level of free public schools, primary and high school, has fallen a lot. Now the good schools are private and paying which creates a selection by the parents' money, but the entrance competitions are still open to all with no places reserved for anyone.

This has been going on in the US on Admissions for seemingly forever?

It's just recently that anyone got caught and made the national news cycles.

A sizeable donation to the school of your choice is legal and likely would have changed the admissions consideration? Think the former President of the US.



Unbeknownst to me also was an entire black market on buying A term papers and hiring someone to take the SAT's for you. Not that I would have actually taken that route but the dirt that has surfaced in the past decades IS upsetting.

The motto being I suppose, "cash talks, nobody walks"?



So what do you think the alloy of the Ferro's is?

I'm thinking that it just needed to be cut out of a thicker plate stock to fix the cracking?

Countersinking the mounting bolts is what accelerated the cracking. Surface mounted button head screws would have looked good and helped there quite a bit.

You also need to compensate for having one less spokes. Thicker would HAVE (past tense) helped as well.

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