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One outstanding fact is the disproportionate number of fields medalist that went to the École normale supérieure in Paris !

> École normale supérieure in Paris

That's a really cool name as well, like "Standard Deluxe" or so.

It's in the sense of norms or standards rather than normal as in unremarkable.

Yeah well getting into ENS Ulm is already such an outstanding feat, no surprise there.