Overview
- Registration and wish entry run from January 19 to March 12, dossiers can be completed until April 1, first admission replies begin June 2, and a complementary phase opens June 11.
- Candidates can choose up to 10 non‑ranked wishes among roughly 25,000 programmes, with a simulator comparing their profile to prior admits and expanded success and job‑placement data now covering licences, agricultural BTS, engineering schools and business schools.
- Scale and demand remain high after last year’s record 980,000 candidates, with university licences the top route, PASS collecting 842,137 wishes in 2025, BUT accounting for about 10% of wishes, and strong interest in BTS for vocational baccalaureate students.
- Guidance activity is intensifying through CIOs, student fairs and media resources, as surveys and reporting point to heavy stress, information gaps and a fast‑growing paid coaching market that risks widening inequalities.
- Recurring complaints about opacity and past technical incidents, including a 2024 outage that extended deadlines and anecdotal missteps on motivation letters, continue to fuel mistrust of the system.