Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris
Among the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet, 95 percent have attended the Paris Opera Ballet School. To describe it differently, for a young dancer to be accepted in the Paris Opera "[[corps de ballet]]", it is virtually obligatory to enter the Paris Opera Ballet School and attend at least the final two classes ("deuxième et première division"). More than 90 percent of the candidates do not pass the entrance examination. Even some of the dancers who have later become "premiers danseurs" (first soloists) or "[[Danseur Étoile|danseurs étoiles]]" ([[principal dancer]]s) of the Paris Opera Ballet passed the entrance examination only on the second attempt, or were accepted only as fee-paying pupils.