In the middle of a crowd of high school students and parents who came to inquire at the post-baccalaureate fair in Paris, a teenager pouted. “I don’t know at all what I want to do, I’m lost,” says the final year student, half-annoyed, half-desperate. Next door, his mother, head bent over a pile of leaflets, refuses our interview request. “We're not really available, it's a bit of a panic. »
The pressure is mounting on this Saturday, a week after the start of the January school year, four days before the launch of Parcoursup, the first phase of which opens this Wednesday, January 15. The approximately 600,000 future high school graduates now have until March 13 to find their path and express their wishes accordingly on the national platform for access to higher education.