With around 24,000 training courses offered, a figure close to last year, the Parcoursup portal for Terminale pupils and students displays new features for the 2025 session designed for greater clarity.
First of all a “identity card” for each training course will specify the status of the establishment (public, private under contract or without contract), the selective nature or not of the training, the number of places available and eligibility for scholarships. Depending on the specialties and a given average, high school students will also be able to have an idea of their chances of accessing training: “rare“, “occasionally“, “regularly“, “more than 50%“…
Vignettes will give figures on the profiles of high school students who joined each course during the previous three years. Parcoursup, launched in 2018, will also include new data in 2025 on professional integration rates and continued studies. The main admission phase will begin on June 2 and the classification of pending wishes will take place between June 6 and 10.
“More meritocracy”
A complementary phase of formulating additional wishes with regard to the places still available will then open on June 11, before the start of registrations on July 4, after the publication of the baccalaureate results. Last year, around 945,000 applications were submitted to Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Some students accuse the procedure of accentuating selection and academic pressure, a demand raised in particular by high school students during school blockades in recent weeks, mainly in Paris. Conversely, the Parcoursup site ensures that it is limited to “transmission of applications” et “taking into account legal priorities“, like the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each training“, but emphasizes that these are “teachers of higher education establishments who organize vows examination committees“.
The platform also denies increasing the selection: “The objective remains to fill reception capacities“, as before the creation of Parcoursup. While sorting in the event of an excess of applications compared to available places was previously done by order of arrival or by drawing lots, it is now done from “examination of files“, pour “more meritocracy“, we read on the site.
