Parcoursup is off to a flying start: high school students must submit their wishes, here is the platform's complete calendar for 2025

For many students, it is time to think about what comes next. This Wednesday, January 15, Parcoursup, the national platform for admission to the first year of higher education courses, is launching the wish phase.

The phase for formulating wishes for higher education courses opens on Wednesday on Parcoursup for high school and college students who want to change direction.

Dates

The 2025 edition was launched last month with an information phase.Final year students now have until March 13 to formulate a maximum of ten wishes and finalize their file by April 2.

The main admission phase will begin on June 2 and the ranking of pending wishes will take place between June 6 and 10.

A complementary phase of formulating additional wishes in view of the places still available will then open the June 11n, before the registration begins on July 4, after the release of the baccalaureate results.

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The platform singled out

Parcoursup is accused by some students of increasing selection and academic pressure, a claim raised in particular by high school students during sporadic blockades of schools for several months.

Interrogated on the platform by LFI MP Marie Mesmeur, during his general policy statement, François Bayrou stated on Tuesday that “Parcoursup is a question”.

“We need to open the doors, probably by inventing the period, the year of articulation between secondary education and higher education”, he said again, implicitly criticizing the post-bac platform orientation.

Parcoursup's response

The platform denies increasing selection: “The objective remains to fill the 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 in order of arrival or by drawing lots, it is now done from “the examination of files”, for “more meritocracy”, we read on the site.

The Parcoursup site assures that it is limited to the “transmission of applications” and “taking into account legal priorities”, such as the “rate of scholarship holders decided by the rectors for each training course”, but emphasizes that these are “teachers in higher education institutions who organize committees to review applications”.

Government action

Last week, the government announced that it was strengthening the fight against fraud in private higher education, with the possibility of excluding from the platform “training courses involving deceptive or fraudulent commercial practices”.

In November, former Minister of Higher Education Patrick Hetzel said he wanted to “clean up” in higher education, particularly targeting private higher education institutions private.

Some 24,000 training courses are offered on the platform launched in 2018. Last year, around 945,000 applications were submitted on Parcoursup, according to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.