Emilie has been running the shows for three weeks… without leaving her home.
It is in front of her computer that this final year student searches for the school that will open the doors to a future that she hopes will be secure and fulfilling.
On Saturday, she was listening to lectures from ISC, a business school.
Sunday, those of Studyrama.
Last week, it was a meeting of the Student.
"It's pretty well done, we have information, we discuss with students, but it's frustrating not to see the places", she testifies.
We will have to get used to it: health constraints oblige, all forums and open houses have been canceled or postponed.
And deconfinement will not change anything.
Between now and the end of March, when it is time to engrave in the stone of Parcoursup the wishes of post-baccalaureate studies, we will have to orient ourselves blindly.
The all-virtual has its limits
“All our events are going virtual until February inclusive and all the schools will hold their open house days at a distance,” explains Sébastien Mercier, L'Etudiant's sales director.
It is not easy to plan for higher education in this context ... "" We try to meet the demand, but it is not the same as real meetings ", attests Jean-Christophe Hauguel, at the head of the ISC business school.
The Paris FCPE parents' association is "very concerned" at the moment by parents more concerned than ever for the future of their children.
To this concern is superimposed another: that of questions about the technical workings of the Parcoursup procedure and of the new bac, itself modified with the health context.
"The great concern of the students is to know precisely what will count for their application files", notes Claire Guéville, of the teaching union Snes-FSU, and specialist of the high school.
"We do not really know how our continuous assessment marks will be assessed in higher education: the original high school is likely to count a lot", anticipates Licia, 17 years old.
"Complicated to inform yourself"
Janet, in final at the Lycée Voltaire, in Paris, "held ten minutes" last week at the online conference organized by Sciences-po.
"I find it difficult to follow at a distance, and I do not yet know anything about Parcoursup, I find it complicated to get information", admits the young girl, who is counting, to see more clearly, on the workshops organized this week by his chest.
Pupils will attend it sporadically: since the new health protocol in force in high schools, young people only have half-day lessons in his establishment.
Admittedly, “a lot of information is already available online, on the Parcoursup site or the Terminale 2020 2021 site,” recalls Jérôme Teillard, in charge of the file at the Ministry of Higher Education.
But "trade shows are an opportunity for young people to realize, physically, that orientation is a big part and that it is time to get started: it is this awareness that is likely to be lacking", analyzes Ferroudja Kaci, advisor at the youth information and documentation center (CIDJ).
"The universe has shrunk and in this context, the most vulnerable are those who are far from school codes", also underlines Claire Guéville.
According to a study carried out by sociologist Jules Donzelot, for the Jobirl association, among 599 students from three high schools in disadvantaged suburbs of Ile-de-France, "one in five young people does not know whether or not their parents have done anything. studies after the baccalaureate ”.
A sign that these students have probably never had an in-depth conversation about guidance in the family setting.