Until Thursday, April 6 midnight, wishes made in March can be completed. Here’s what to keep in mind at this stage of Parcoursup 2023.
It’s a new phase that opens this Friday, April 7, 2023: that of waiting, patience and – it must be said – increasing stress, until June 1. On this date, students and high school students will be able to return to the Parcoursup platform to discover the response of training managers to their wishes.
Until this Thursday, April 6, 2023, midnight, there is still time to finalize your files, for each training. Attention to detail! Students must finish filling in their profile (civil status, contacts of legal representatives, scholarship information, sports or artistic activity, etc.). Check everything that is requested, a missing supporting document could have regrettable consequences.
The high school students concerned must also express their motivation for their training projects, an essential element of the procedure which allows the candidate to stand out. These reasoned letters (1,500 characters maximum) are intended to explain why the training interests the candidate, what their assets are and how this training fits into their personal or professional project.
After having made up to 10 wishes, with the possibility of sub-wishes, they must indeed each be motivated, with a whole file to be completed according to the establishments. It is therefore preferable to choose the targeted training carefully, with the help of a precise professional project.
Each of the Parcoursup wishes must be justified by writing a “motivated training project”, a kind of cover letter. The objective: to explain in a few lines what motivates the candidate in this training. “It’s a personal expression that is expected of you and not a theoretical writing”, specifies Parcoursup. It is thus a question of motivating one’s wishes in a personalized way, and thus of standing out from the others by highlighting one’s strengths. Concretely, in 1,500 characters maximum, the candidate explains why he chooses to include this training in his wish list, what his qualities and skills are, and how the training fits well with his past career – professional experiences and personal – and with his future plans.
Good to know: if a high school student or a student in reorientation has a disability or suffers from a disabling health problem, he can fill in a liaison form in his Parcoursup file. It is possible to specify your needs for the start of the school year. Non-compulsory, this form is not sent to the training for the examination of the file.
What new section has appeared on the Parcoursup website?
The new section “Understanding the criteria for analyzing applications” has been created on the Parcoursup.fr website for the 2023 edition. It details the access criteria on which the training courses are based, in other words, the criteria from which training courses accept or not a candidate’s file. As Jérôme Teillard, Parcoursup project manager at the Ministry of Higher Education, points out, “It is not an algorithm that examines applications, it is the teachers”.
Parcoursup 2023 dates before admission
- December 20, 2022 : information phase, Parcoursup opens its web pages for consultation. You can consult the courses available in 2023, 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 18 to March 9, 2023 : 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 is no longer possible). You can make a maximum of 10 wishes and 20 sub-wishes. This two-month period still gives you time to explore the training courses and refine your choices. As part of the Parcoursup procedure, it is not necessary to rank your wishes, but you have to justify them one by one by writing a cover letter for each one.
- Until April 6, 2023 : 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, via the provision of all the supporting documents requested, as well as by a final touch to your letters of motivation !
The Parcoursup 2023 dates for the admission phases
- From June 1 to July 13, 2023 : 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. 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.
- From June 15 to September 12, 2023 : additional admission phase, with entry of new wishes and proposals for admission. This phase is dedicated to those who have only received negative or unsatisfactory 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.
- From July 1, 2023 : possibility for Parcoursup candidates to request personalized support from the commission for access to higher education (CAES) of their academy from their file.
You can make up to 10 wishes in total, but also sub-vows depending on the training. Applicants seeking training in learning have 10 additional wishes for these same apprenticeships. About 7,500 apprenticeship training courses are available and for many of them, you can make your wishes throughout the Parcoursup procedure, without a deadline. For high school students, each wish expressed is the subject of a Future sheet, which will include the assessments of its teachers and the opinion of the headteacher following the 2nd class council. They are sent to the universities concerned.
Another advantage of the site: if a candidate is looking for a specific training, the search engine also offers him similar training that could potentially interest him. In their list of a maximum of 10 wishes, in no order of preference and with no obligation to add a non-selective course, Parcoursup candidates must present their motivation for each of the wishes entered. They have for this from mid-January to mid-March.
High school students have the opportunity to apply outside the academy : “a few places [sont] reserved in the non-selective streams of a university for candidates coming from another academy”, specifies AFP. If the student chooses to limit his applications to selective streams or to universities outside his academy, he risk of remaining without a proposal and receives a series of messages from the Parcoursup platform to inform them.
Finally, the candidate has an additional possibility in his pocket: that of formulate “multiple wishes” (within their 1 to 10 wishes), which are limited to a maximum of 20 sub-wishes. Ex: a computer license requested for all the universities of the academy, and which counts for only one wish, with more chances for the student to obtain the training in the sector of his choice .
Good to know: for IFSIs, institutes in hearing aids, speech therapy and orthoptics, the limit is five wishes per type of training.
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For those who have not yet made their choice, the training sheets provide valuable information for each training:
- training content
- scholarship fees
- the dates of the open days
- the percentage of candidates admitted according to the type of baccalaureate in 2022
- the access rate in 2022
- The number of places available this year and the number of wishes made in 2022
- the rate of sending admission proposals in 2022;
- professional integration rates for the majority of BTS and additional mentions
- The rate of passage in the 2nd year and the success rate
The training sheets are also enriched with a new section, Know the criteria for analyzing applications“. This clearly presents the criteria that the courses will use to analyze and accept applications. It is also specified in the sheets who will analyze the files: teachers, admissions officers… Thanks to all these elements, the candidate has the opportunity to compare the most important criteria between two training courses and gauge his chances of success, but also to have more in mind the priority arguments to include in his Parcoursup cover letter. on the part of the training courses themselves relating to the courses recommended in high school and the way to fill in your application file.What better to anticipate the admission phase, which starts on Thursday, June 1st.
If they are accepted while waiting for a place, students can monitor their progress on the waiting list on a day-to-day basis and assess the probability of being admitted to a course. You can only accept one admissions proposal at a time. It is possible to accept an admission proposal (so as not to be left with nothing) and to maintain the “pending” wish(s) that interest you at the same time.
It is indeed a yes, the student who has made this choice is accepted in the chosen training. But the student then agrees to follow a refresher course or courses adapted to his profile, from the start of the school year.
Pourtonsup is a platform launched by the association of high school students to help disoriented candidates navigate Parcoursup. She offers to give her opinion on Parcoursup, find her orientation and finally, exchange with students.
Launched on February 1, 2023, My Masters is the new national online platform for finding your master’s degree. Once their license in hand, many students find themselves on the floor in France. In the summer of 2022, some 7,000 students had thus seized their rectorate, according to the Ministry of Higher Education, because they had not been able to access the desired outlet for a master’s degree. A sort of one-stop shop, “My Masters” functions as a referral interface to streamline proposals, redistribute vacant places and register students earlier.
The site allows three key features to access a master after his license:
- consult all the national master’s degrees offered by accredited higher education institutions
- submit applications for access to the first year of a master’s degree
- be accompanied by the rectoral services in the event that you have received no positive response to your applications
From mid-June, proposals for admission arrive at the successful applicants. They can then accept the proposals or not, but this is only possible for two masters at the same time. From mid-July begins a phase of redistribution of vacant places according to withdrawals.
How to make new choices? Via the tool “Assess your chances in a sector”, the result of our exclusive partnership with a team of teachers eager to help students, you have the possibility of visualizing your probabilities of integrating training according to your profile! In the interface below, created by Supeasy, you indicate your baccalaureate and your level, then tick the courses you are aiming for.
It is possible to indicate several cumulated sectors. This allows you to compare your chances of admission in a few clicks, and even to modulate them by varying the average obtained in the baccalaureate.