Europe 1 with AFP 08:30, 04 June 2023

Among the 917,000 candidates who confirmed at least one wish, "more than 600,000 received a positive response, which is a completely correct rate," the minister said in an interview with the Telegram. "Knowing that we are only at the beginning of the process, since this first phase extends until July 7," said Education Minister Pap Ndiaye.

"More than 600,000" high school students and students in reorientation already have a positive response to their wishes on the post-baccalaureate admission platform Parcoursup, said Sunday the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye. For candidates, several responses from higher education institutions are possible to each of their wishes: to be accepted ("yes"), to be accepted under conditions ("yes if", for university courses that require the student to follow a pedagogical or personalized support course), to be on the waiting list or to be refused (only for selective courses).

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Additional admission phase from 15 June

High school students must respond no later than Sunday at 23:59 p.m. for proposals made on June 1 and 2 and Monday at 23:59 p.m. for those received on June 3. For proposals received from Monday, they must respond no later than the following evening. "For now, it is going well, both from a technical point of view and for the candidates," commented Pap Ndiaye.

In parallel, an additional admission phase will allow candidates to formulate from 15 June up to ten new wishes in the courses that still have places. The minister also "warned" high school students who could be tempted to no longer come to class after the anticipated tests of the bac, "a bad calculation", according to him: "for students who have not received favorable answers from Parcoursup on June 1, and who are therefore in the complementary phase, the grades of the third term count".

The institutions report "situations of absenteeism", however, acknowledged the minister, without giving details, recalling that he has instructed William Marois, former rector of the academy of Nantes, "to make proposals" on the subject "by the beginning of autumn".