Registrations on the Parcoursup platform open this Wednesday, January 20, and final year students will be able to start expressing their wishes for higher education until March 11.

Ariane Despierre-Ferry, Director of the Student, returned to Europe Marin on the new features of the platform.

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They are 17 or 18 years old and are about to make choices for their future.

Registration on Parcoursup opens on Wednesday January 20.

A crucial moment for the final year students, who, like their classmates from previous years, will have to give their wishes for higher education.

But like every year, these registrations can prove to be a puzzle and a source of anguish.

Ariane Despierre-Ferry, editorial director of L'Etudiant magazine, was Sébastien Krebs' guest in Europe Matin.

In particular, she reviewed the organization and specificities of the platform. 

Up to ten wishes possible 

"There are ten possible wishes, but you should know that each of the wishes is declined in establishments, that is to say that one makes a wish by course or training. And then, there is a drop-down menu which opens, in which we can again make ten wishes depending on the establishment we are targeting. For example: I am looking for a license from STAPS and I want to study in the Lyon region. STAPS license in the tool. It will open below the list of establishments in which, in the region in question, I will be able to follow this license ", explains the director. 

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Places still limited in university 

However, no order of preference to be completed on Parcoursup this year again, one of the problems noted with APB, the old platform.

But Ariane Despierre-Ferry insists, it is all the same possible to have "a strategy of wishes": The word wishes is a very beautiful word in the perspective of an orientation.

Because in fact, it must embody both wishes, the result of a questioning that the young person will have conducted on himself and on the life he wants to lead, the adult he wants to to become and the studies he wants to follow ", continues the editorial director. 

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"To make your wishes, you need an approach that is both pragmatic: I make wishes that correspond to what I want, the courses I want to follow ... And you have to mix and match selective training where I am not sure of being received, and so-called non-selective training, which is that of the university ".

However Ariane Despierre-Ferry reminds us, the numbers and the number of places are also limited at the university: "We know that these courses lack places. Why? Because they are very attractive in the eyes of young people (... ) and you cannot open places over and over again ".

The orientation disrupted by the Covid-19

The director of L'Etudiant also addressed the subject of fairs intended for guidance for students, undermined by the health crisis linked to Covid-19, and assured that institutions or specialized media have organized themselves to to overcome these difficulties in accessing information:

"The high school students will be able, with their parents, to go on our L'Etudiant platform, on the virtual fair, to meet exhibitors who are present in their hundreds. They will be able to attend conferences live or even in replay ... L The advantage is that you can ask questions. You just have to transform your approach a little. You have to dare and finally get in touch through ways that are new today ".

After the deadline of March 11 to make their wishes, students will still be able to modify their file until April 8.