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This article analyzes students’ success on exams in relation to hardships and challenges they are facing based on two quantitative surveys, one conducted in 2017 (before Covid-19) and the other in 2021 (during Covid-19). A synthetic indicator is being tested to measure three dimensions: the first focuses on financial difficulties (not being able to meet one’s needs, not having enough to eat and foregoing healthcare); the second is linked to living conditions (needing to work, encountering major difficulties with housing, perceptions of physical and psychological health); and the third targets social isolation (lack of help from loved ones and feelings of loneliness). This indicator thus highlights the most vulnerable student profiles, and underlines the fact that the increased level of vulnerability during the health crisis have an influence on the length of their academic career and successful graduation.