To add more color, the top few high schools in Bucharest at the time were all highly competitive, with low % admission rates. So the student body was naturally

To add more color, the top few high schools in Bucharest at the time were all highly competitive, with low % admission rates. So the student body was naturally skewed towards more academically inclined students. In a sense, if you made it in you were more or less a "nerd" compared to the general population.