[dudul]

"A few select students"?? Maybe in some countries, but in plenty of countries it's whoever wants to go. That's the problem when talking about "europe", it's not a homogeneous group of countries.

As for training leagues, they still have professional sport teams in Europe right?

[daenz]

Which countries don't have university acceptance rates? I looked at Denmark and Sweden, they still exclude people. Someone mentioned in Germany if you don't get accepted, you go on a waiting list.

[dudul]

AFAIK France is an example where graduating high school is the only requirement.

[malermeister]

Austria comes to mind.