https://dossier.parcoursup.fr/Candidat/carte
Use the search bar and type PCSI.
Click on Trier par-> taux d’acces.
Frederic Mistral, Avignon**
Camille Vernet, Valence*
Jean Jaurès, Montreuil**
Gay-Lussac, Limoges*
Camille Guérin, Poitiers*
Are all basically safeties, in nice cities with good bullet train access or other good public transportation and access to major cities (*=low cost of living/high quality of life, ** a bit more expensive but could be within budget)
Vaugelas, Chambery*
Loritz, Nancy**
Pothier, Orléans**
Laperouse, Albi*
Montesquieu, Le Mans*
Good targets. Same /*
CIV Valbonne ***
Kleber, Strasbourg***
Julian, Bordeaux ***
D’Arsonval, St Maur ***
Dautet, La Rochelle**
Descartes, Tours **
Deodat Severac, Toulouse ***
Chateaubriand-Joliot-Curie, Rennes**
Eiffel, Bordeaux ***
Champollion, Grenoble ***
Joffre, Montpellier ***
Clémenceau, Nantes ***
(***= high cost of living, may not be within budget, rents are very high. Rennes, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Grenoble, Nantes are AWESOME cities but very costly).
Go look at the tourism office websites for each town, it’ll be in English.
Click on “voir la fiche”, scroll down to “contact&coordonnees”. Click on “responsable pédagogique” to contact each program’s director. You need to do this quickly because the site’ll close shortly.
I can translate a short letter where you introduce yourself and your qualifications, then ask whether they’d be open to your applying if you reach the desired level of French. This way you will know which ones allow you to even apply. Just type your letter here and I’ll write the translation.
Once you have replies about where you’d be allowed to apply, you’d have to pick 3 in category 1, 3 in category 2, and 4 in category 3 (if you have as many in each). But that would be a next step - you need to devise a letter I can translate, copy the contact info for each, and look up the environment so you can roughly rank them (in that order). The contact info and the website are going to close soon (Sept 15 I think).
You can also click on “BUT” in the lefthand column (same website), trier, taux d’acces. HOWEVER, whereas for PCSI you apply directly to the school and/or through parcoursup (above website), FOR THIS YOU HAVE TO USE CAMPUSFRANCE, an agency that will evaluate your aplication, esp wrt how solid your application is and financial back ups etc… and then you need to be accepted through that.
The first one is Angouleme, QLIO = very hands on, you’re on co-op starting year2, very inexpensive rents, easy train ride to the seaside or big cities. Absolute safety for you.
In some of or near the above cool cities, you have, also with co-op starting Y2 - use Google Translate to translate the fields - see below:
- I.U.T. Nantes (Carquefou - 44) Public
BUT - Métiers de la Transition et de l’Efficacité Énergétiques
- I.U.T. Saint-Nazaire (44) Public
BUT - Génie chimique génie des procédés
- I.U.T d’Orléans (45) Public
BUT - Métiers de la Transition et de l’Efficacité Énergétiques
- I.U.T de Bourges (18) Public
BUT - Génie civil - Construction durable
- I.U.T de Lannion (22) Public
BUT - Informatique
- I.U.T de Nice - Antenne de Valbonne (06)
BUT - Réseaux et télécommunications
- I.U.T de Blagnac (31) Public
BUT - Réseaux et télécommunications
- I.U.T. Saint-Nazaire (44) Public
BUT - Génie civil - Construction durable
- I.U.T de Blagnac (31) Public
BUT - Informatique
This sounds arrogant in case you are not able to recognize it due to cultural differences. It’s a real turn off, meaning people don’t like this attitude.