For many students, this is a time to think about what’s next. This Wednesday, January 15, Parcoursup, the national platform for admission to the first year of higher education courses, is launching the wishes phase.
The phase of formulating training wishes in higher education opens Wednesday on Parcoursup for high school students and students who want to reorient themselves.
The dates
The 2025 edition was launched last month with an information phase. Final year students now have until March 13 to make ten wishes maximum and finalize their file by April 2.
The main admission phase will begin on June 2 et classification of pending wishes will intervene between June 6 and 10.
A complementary phase of formulating additional wishes in view of the places still available, will then open the 11 juin, before registration begins on July 4after the publication of the baccalaureate results.
The platform pointed out
Parcoursup is accused by certain students of accentuating selection and academic pressure, a demand raised in particular by high school students during sporadic school blockages for several months.
Questioned on the platform by LFI MP Marie Mesmeur, during his general policy declaration, François Bayrou affirmed Tuesday that “Parcoursup is a question”.
“We need to open the doors, undoubtedly by inventing the period, the year of articulation between secondary education and higher education”he said again, implicitly criticizing the post-baccalaureate orientation platform.
Parcoursup's response
The platform, for its part, 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 “from the examination of files”pour “more meritocracy”we read on the site.
The Parcoursup site ensures that it is limited to the “transmission of applications” et “taking into account legal priorities”like the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each course”but emphasizes that these are “teachers in higher education establishments who organize vows examination committees”.
Government action
The government announced last week to strengthen the fight against fraud in private higher education, with the possibility of excluding from the platform “training in misleading or fraudulent commercial practices”.
In November, former Minister of Higher Education Patrick Hetzel said he wanted “do the housework” in higher education, particularly targeting private establishments.
Some 24 000 formations are offered on the platform launched in 2018. Last year, around 945,000 applications have been posted on Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
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