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Undergraduate Admissions for applicants from foreign secondary schools: required documents
Please note
Before you submit your application, make sure it is complete and that all required supporting documents are attached in the right format. Should any documents be missing, your application will be deemed incomplete and will not be evaluated.
Overview
- For all applicants
- Applicants preparing an International Baccalaureate (IB)
- Applicants preparing a US High School Diploma
- Applicants preparing A-Levels (UK)
- Applicants preparing a European Baccalaureate (EB)
- Applicants preparing the Italian Esame di Stato (liceo)
- Applicants preparing the Indian CBSE/ISC
- Applicants preparing a Romanian baccalauréat
- Applicants preparing a secondary school diploma in China
- Notes
For all applicants (regardless of the type of secondary school diploma)
- CV/Résumé (in French or English, depending on the language of the programme);
- All official academic transcripts for the last three years of secondary education (including all available grades for the current year): For candidates currently in their last year of high school in school systems with an academic year from September through June: Transcripts of years 2024/25, 2025/26 and first grades of the ongoing year if available or for candidates currently in their last year of high school in school systems with an academic year from January/February through to November/December: 2024 and 2025 transcript, as well as 2026 transcript and final diploma if already available.
- Candidates having obtained a dispensation request (and therefore graduated earlier): all transcripts of the last three years of high school as well as the final diploma.
- Two academic references from high school teachers or heads of school (mandatory). Once the two mandatory references are added, you may attach extra academic and/or professional references (entirely optional);
- Final secondary school diploma, if already obtained;
- Copy of your Passport or national identity card in Latin script;
- Mandatory for candidates having taken AP exams: AP Score Report (College Board)
- Recommended but not mandatory: language tests (IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge, DELF, DALF, etc.).
- Optional: standardised test results (SAT, ACT, etc.)
NB : If a candidate wishes to share their standardised test results, they have to add the official score report (screenshots are not accepted)
Please do not overload your application with non-requested documents.
Applicants preparing an International Baccalaureate (IBDP or IBCP)
Applicants who will obtain the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) or the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) must also submit IB predicted grades (out of 42 or 45) issued during the current school year (official document stamped and signed by the school).
Should this document be missing, your application will be deemed incomplete.
Applicants preparing a US High School Diploma
Applicants who hold, or will hold, a US High School Diploma must provide:
- Multi-annual school transcript, if possible with unweighted GPA out of 4 (official document stamped and signed by the school);
- A school profile (high school can typically provide them to candidates);
- Mandatory for candidates having sat AP exams: all Advanced Placement (AP) scores (official score report);
- Optional: SAT Reasoning Test, SAT Subject test (institution code: 6192) or ACT Test scores (institution code: 8312).
Applicants preparing A-Levels (UK) or International A-levels
Applicants preparing A-Levels or International A-levels must provide an official transcript of their A-Level scores in at least three different subjects (if A-levels already obtained) or A-level predicted grades (if exams not yet obtained).
If the candidate took any GCSE/IGCSE or AS-level exams, the official score reports are also required.
Applicants preparing a European Baccalaureate (EB)
Applicants preparing a European Baccalaureate need to provide their transcripts of the years S5 and S6 as well as their note préliminaire (if the latter is already available).
Applicants preparing the Italian Esame di Stato (liceo)
Applicants preparing the Italian maturità (Esame di stato at high school level) currently in their last year of a linguistic, scientific or humanistic high school (liceo) should provide their 3A and 4A grades, as well as grades of the first quadrimestre of the 5A in the form of the scrutinio online if they are already available by the time of application.
Candidates who have already obtained their diploma should also provide their final exam results.
All transcripts issued in Italian must be accompanied by a translation into either English or French.
Applicants preparing the Indian CBSE/ISC
Applicants from the national system: Year 10 board exam results (CBSE or ICSE Class 10) as well as transcripts from year 11 and (if available) predicted grades for the year 12 board exam. If a candidate switched from the IGCSE/IBDP programme to the national system after year 10, the IGCSE results/IB Middle Years diploma are also required.
IBDP applicants: cf. IBDP section
Applicants preparing a Romanian baccalauréat
Foaie matricolă, including grades from grades 10 and 11, as well as, if applicable, a page showing grades earned during the current school year.
For applicants who have been granted an exemption (and have therefore already taken their Romanian baccalaureate), please also include the diploma de bacalaureat.
Do not forget to include translations (into English or French) if the original high school transcript is in Romanian.
Applicants preparing a secondary school diploma in China
- Candidates preparing for the Hui Kao / Gao Kao (traditional curriculum): multi-year transcript covering Grades 10 to 11, with a translation into English or French (where applicable, including the candidate's class rank/cohort ranking).
- Candidates following an international curriculum (hybrid curriculum, A-level curriculum, or American curriculum with AP scores): multi-year transcript covering Grades 10 to 11, with a translation into English or French if the transcript is not issued in English (where applicable, including the candidate's class rank/cohort ranking); results of any international examinations (IGCSE, A-level scores, AP scores, IB scores).
Notes
Copies of your transcripts and diplomas must be provided in the original language version. When necessary, they must be accompanied by an official or informal translation into French or English. Please do not submit any grade conversions.
NB: If admitted, you will be required to present original copies of your transcripts, certificates and diplomas to the Registrar's Office during registrations.
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