COURSEUP. Registration for the Parcoursup post-baccalaureate admission platform begins each year in mid-January. What are the key facts to know? The recap.
[Mis à jour le 17 janvier 2022 à 11h30] Registration on the Parcoursup post-baccalaureate orientation platform begins Thursday, January 20 on the site Parcoursup.fr. From this date, it will also be possible for candidates to begin to formulate their wishes. The Parcoursup 2022 calendar has three main stages: the registration phase, from January 20 therefore and until the end of March; the admission phase from June 2 until mid-July; then the additional admission phase, in parallel with the final exams for the 2022 baccalaureate, from June 23 and until mid-September. Consult the details of the stages of the Parcoursup 2022 calendar.
The dates of the Parcoursup calendar are closely linked with those of the baccalaureate. The marks for the baccalaureate specialty tests, which account for 32% of the baccalaureate mark, must for example take place in March in theory, and their results be transferred to the Parcoursup files of the students in stride. As underlined by the Ministry of Education in its press release of September 30, “The ministries wished to ensure the consistency and complementarity of the calendar of final baccalaureate examinations with that of the Parcoursup procedure, so as to allow educational teams and students to organize work in a serene way throughout the school year”.
The essential information and dates to remember below.
From the information phase to the additional phase, here are the dates of the Parcoursup 2022 calendar:
- December 21, 2021 : information phase, Parcoursup opens its web pages for consultation. You can consult the courses available in 2022, and find out about the expectations and admission conditions. This is also the time to refine your orientation project with your main teachers and/or orientation counsellors.
- From January 20 to March 29, 2022 : it’s here registration phase on Parcoursup, with opening of the file and formulation of wishes. You must complete the various sections of the file (CV, cover letters, activities and areas of interest). Your main mission also: to express your wishes (after March 29, this will no longer be possible). You can make 10 wishes and 20 sub-wishes maximum. This two-month period still gives you time to explore the training courses and refine your choices.
- Until April 8, 2022 : confirmation of vows and finalization of the file. These few days of “bonus” are aimed at the final validation of wishes, but also the verification of your applications and their finalization, by providing all the supporting documents requested, as well as by a final touch to your letters of motivation!
- From June 2 to July 15, 2022 : main intake phase, with response from establishments to Parcoursup applicants. You will then begin to know if the courses you are targeting have accepted your application, rejected it or put you on the waiting list.
- From June 23 to September 16, 2022 : additional admission phase, with entry of new wishes and proposals for admission. This phase is dedicated to those who have only received negative responses, or who have missed the mark of their registration. During this “second chance session”, candidates can apply for courses that still have places, with the same rules of the game as in the previous procedure, but in an accelerated version.
NB: After the results of the baccalaureate, at the request of the student from his file, a committee is responsible for proposing to baccalaureate holders who have not obtained a positive response an assignment in higher education, under the leadership of the rector. This is the CAES (Commission for access to higher education) of the student’s academy, and it provides personalized support.
The Parcoursup answers must arrive in 2022 from May 27. In order to reduce the stress on candidates, the main procedure (admission phase) also ends in mid-July instead of the beginning of September previously.
The long-awaited stage of the Parcoursup responses sent by the training takes place as follows: the candidate first receives an alert. This means that he has one or more answers. The answers are broken down into “yes”, “yes if”, or “pending” for non-selective courses (general licenses). One “no” can only be issued by selective streams (prepas, IUT, BTS, etc.).
When the number of applications exceeds the number of places, either in the “sectors in tension”, the universities give priority a priori to the applications sticking the most to the training offered, in terms of skills as well as acquired or projects. Each time a Parcoursup candidate receives two “yes” to different courses, he has the obligation to choose one of the two at the time, in order to avoid clogging the system. But said candidate keeps his wishes “pending”.
To be able to manage your admission proposals, consider downloading the Parcoursup application from May 27. As a candidate, you must respond to the proposals within the given deadlines and, again, can only accept one at a time : in other words, you have to choose between several admission proposals, which frees up places for candidates on the waiting list. For you too, a pending wish can turn into an admission proposal. When it comes to managing your pending wishes, keep only those that still interest you. Finally, if you receive an admission proposal for your favorite course, you must definitely accept it. You then renounce your other wishes, and again free up places for waiting candidates.
What are the response deadlines?
- If you receive an admissions proposal May 27 2022: 5 days (D+4), i.e. until May 31, 2022 inclusive to accept or refuse it
- the May 28 2022: 4 days maximum (D+3), i.e. until May 31 inclusive.
- From the May 29 2021: 3 days maximum (D+2). For example, for a proposal received on June 1, you will have to confirm or refuse it before June 3 inclusive.
If you fail to respond to a proposal before the deadline, “you lose this proposal, and it will be sent to another candidate”, underlines the explanatory video posted online Parcoursup.
When you download it to your smartphone, the Parcoursup application allows you to be informed “in real time of the stages of the calendar not to be missed”, underlines the specialized site Digischool. Please note that the app is not interactive: the candidate cannot ask questions. On the other hand, it gives the possibility of receiving on mobile:
- notifications relating to the Parcoursup calendar
- answers to questions asked in the Contact section of the Parcoursup website
- alerts about his file
- the answers to his wishes
How is the reform of the baccalaureate taken into account on Parcoursup, for the moment? A reform of the baccalaureate is initially planned for 2021. In the Parcoursup file of each high school student candidate must appear all the marks collected between the start of the first year and the finalization of the application file. The “Parcoursup 2022” file must therefore include the averages of the school report cards, as well as those of the common assessments and the final specialty tests. It should be noted that the specialties followed by the general baccalauréat holders in first and last year also serve as new elements of the file.
A reform of the baccalaureate is initially planned for 2021. In the Parcoursup file of each high school student candidate must appear all the marks collected between the start of the first year and the finalization of the application file. The “Parcoursup 2021” file must therefore include the averages of the school report cards, which will also count this year instead of the common assessments (replaced by continuous assessment) and the final specialty tests (also replaced by continuous assessment).
It should be noted that the specialties followed by the general baccalauréat holders in first and last year also serve as new elements of the file.
The “complementary phase” Parcoursup allows candidates who have not been accepted anywhere at the stage of the main procedure to formulate up to 10 new wishes and to accept admission proposals for courses that still have places available. In 2022, this last phase of the online post-baccalaureate orientation procedure extends from Thursday June 16 to Wednesday September 14.