Multiple aspects make up a great university: teachers, researchers, employees and, above all, students. Student selection is a complex system that involves, firstly, the expectations of candidates and the structure of the institution. A university recognized for its excellence in teaching, research and extension activities, such as Unicamp, has a great capacity to attract students to its undergraduate courses.
The diversity of the university and its fields of knowledge and activity demand constant reviews and dialogues with society and, particularly, with young people who aspire to join its ranks. 31 years ago, Unicamp chose to create its own Entrance Exam and successfully fulfilled the role of selecting students for its courses.
However, society has changed, young people's expectations have changed, access to education has become more democratic and the demands for knowledge have changed. In 2011, with the creation of ProFIS (Higher Interdisciplinary Training Program), the University broke the monopoly of the Entrance Exam as the only way to enter its courses and began a successful experiment to select the best students from each public school in the city of Campinas. The great reception of this system encouraged the University to take bolder steps in the selection of students.
From 2019 onwards, Unicamp will adopt 5 admission systems: the Unicamp Vestibular and ProFIS, already existing, the Indigenous Vestibular and the ENEM-Unicamp Notices and Olympic Vacancies Notice. As I noted in another article, following in the footsteps of other major universities around the world, “the variety of admission criteria can reduce inequalities in access and strengthen the plurality of people, knowledge, stories and experiences that stimulate the production of other knowledge and ways to read the world.”
The objective of this article is to explain to the Unicamp community and to candidates and teachers the rules of the new admission systems. All notices and information are available at the website of Permanent Commission for Entrance Exams.
Explaining entry systems
Not to mention the ProFIS, which has consolidated rules, I present 4 systems: there are 2 entrance exams (Vestibular Unicamp and Vestibular Indígena) and 2 notices (ENEM-Unicamp and Vagas Olímpicas). You college entrance exams they mean that all stages (registration, design, application and correction of tests, classification and publication of results) are the responsibility of COMVEST, that is, it is a process entirely conducted by Unicamp. You edicts ENEM-Unicamp and Olympic Vacancies mean that Unicamp is not responsible for the design, application and correction of tests that are the responsibility of other institutions, such as INEP and the bodies responsible for holding Olympics and other knowledge competitions. COMVEST, in the case of notices, operates the system and classifies enrolled students based on weights and criteria defined by the undergraduate courses.
All students can register on all systems, as long as they meet the specificities of each system.
Another important fact: Registration in one of the systems does not mean automatic registration in the other systems. Someone who signs up for the Unicamp Entrance Exam is not automatically competing for the ENEM Notice, for example.
Unicamp Entrance Exam 2019
The Unicamp Entrance Exam will continue to be the main admission system at Unicamp: just over 80% of Unicamp places (2.589) are available in this modality. Students from public and private schools can register and the tests will continue to be carried out in two phases.
An important change is in the bonus for the Affirmative Action and Social Inclusion Program (PAAIS) applicable to public school students. Students who have completed Elementary School II will have an additional 20 points to their standardized average. Those who attended high school, 40 points. PAAIS, by reducing the secondary school bonus and providing a bonus for primary school students, seeks to be more appropriate in terms of social criteria. The 60 points that were awarded, until last year, to those who completed high school will only be awarded to those who completed at least 7 years of public school (Elementary II and High School).
Another new feature is the adoption of ethnic-racial quotas: 15% of regular vacancies at Unicamp are in this modality. There are 509 vacancies, of the 3.340 regular vacancies at Unicamp.
By preserving the majority of vacancies in the Entrance Exam, Unicamp signals that it will be the University's responsibility to define the main criteria regarding tests and knowledge in the selection process of those who will enter the undergraduate program. The Unicamp Entrance Exam tests are recognized for their quality and are references for many teachers in basic education. The themes, originality of approach and contextualization, for example, inspire teachers in their teaching activities.
Another important fact: vacancies not filled in other systems will migrate to the Unicamp Vestibular. For example, if the vacancies in the ENEM Notice for a given course are not filled, they will be transferred to the Entrance Exam. Therefore, 2.589 is the minimum number of vacancies available in the entrance exam.
Registration ends on 31/08/2018 and the tests will be held on 18/11 (1st phase) and 13, 14 and 15/01/2019 (2nd phase). The tests will be carried out in Campinas and 28 other cities in the interior of the State of São Paulo and in the following capitals: Belo Horizonte (MG), Brasília (DF), Curitiba (PR), Fortaleza (CE), Salvador (BA) and São Paulo (SP).
Indigenous Entrance Exam
The Indigenous Entrance Exam will offer 72 places in 34 undergraduate courses. Some vacancies are regular (23), that is, if they are not filled, they will be transferred to the Unicamp Entrance Exam. The other 49 vacancies are additional and, if left unfilled, will not be added to the 3.340 regular vacancies (see the link here).
The Indigenous Entrance Exam will be carried out in a single phase, with tests in the same areas of knowledge as the Unicamp Entrance Exam (Languages, Mathematics, Human Sciences and Natural Sciences), in addition to the writing test.
The option of holding a specific Entrance Exam, the first among state public universities in São Paulo, is to allow students with different educational experiences to compete for places among themselves. The number of indigenous students is much smaller compared to other groups covered by quotas, such as blacks and browns, for example. The entry of indigenous students at Unicamp is very restricted in the current system, therefore, the creation of an Entrance Examination for indigenous students is an important action to promote the inclusion of these students and, at the same time, diversity at Unicamp. The expectation is that traditional knowledge and academic knowledge can coexist in an experience that favors new visions and conceptions around multiple cultures.
To participate in this process, students must have completed high school in a public school and complete a declaration of ethnic belonging, signed by leaders of the groups to which they declared a link.
Registration takes place between 15/08 and 14/09/2018. The test will be held on 02/12/2018 in the cities of Campinas (SP), Dourados (MS), Manaus (AM), São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM) and Recife (PE).
ENEM-Unicamp Notice
The ENEM-Unicamp Notice will make 645 available, that is, almost 20% of the 3340 places for students selected by ENEM. It is important to emphasize that this is a specific notice from Unicamp and not membership of SISU (Unified Selection System), administered by INEP-MEC. Through this admission system, Unicamp wants to offer opportunities to students from any part of the national territory.
The University Council considered that it is preferable to give more opportunities to candidates and not exhaust their possibilities in a process that involves dozens of universities and in which the candidate can only indicate 2 course options. Unicamp, therefore, will manage its own system, in which the grade obtained in the National High School Exam (ENEM) will be used to classify students.
Another difference between Unicamp and SISU is that candidates will be able to indicate their course option, just like in the Entrance Exam, and will not have to experience the anxiety of a classification system where people change courses according to the grade obtained and not according to with your preferences and affinities. SISU is a dynamic system in which during the course option days, those enrolled in the system know the grade of the last classified and can “opt” for another course or institution.
By making its own classification, Unicamp understands that it is not in dispute with other institutions and, consequently, students do not need to participate in a type of auction in which candidates with higher scores enter courses they do not want to follow. For example, a candidate who intended to study Dentistry, but had an insufficient grade compared to the last placed, could opt for a course in another area, which requires a lower grade, just to enter university. The result of this system is often an increase in evasion.
To participate in the ENEM-Unicamp Notice it is necessary to fulfill one of the basic requirements: be a public school student or be self-declared black or mixed race (public or private school). Half of the vacancies in this notice, that is, 10% of Unicamp's regular vacancies, are for ethnic-rational quotas, which added to the 15% of vacancies in the Unicamp Vestibular, form the percentage of 25% of vacancies reserved for ethnic-rational quotas. racial (regardless of whether the candidate attended public or private school).
Registration for the ENEM-Unicamp Notice begins on 15/10 and runs until 14/11/2018 and candidates can use the score from the last two editions of ENEM (2017 and 2018), that is, students who took the test in this year and last year can compete in this Notice.
Olympic Vacancy Notice
The Olympic Vacancy Notice seeks to attract students who have won prizes in national and international knowledge competitions and scientific Olympiads. 90 places are offered (7 additional and 83 regular) in 22 courses. Those approved by this system will not need to take any other tests to enter Unicamp.
Students can choose up to 2 courses and identify the Olympics and the type of medal obtained (gold, silver and bronze) or, in the case of international Olympics, a certificate of participation is also valid.
The weights of each competition and their importance were defined by each undergraduate course and the final classification will follow the order of priority for each Olympiad. A course in the exact sciences area, for example, may consider a Mathematics Olympiad to be more relevant than a competition in the robotics area. Candidates must be careful, when choosing the course of their choice, to observe which Olympiads are accepted.
Candidates will be able to use their highest score obtained in olympiads in the two years prior to joining Unicamp, that is, 2017 and 2018. The level of olympiads must be equivalent to high school, i.e., competitions at elementary level and/or higher level.
Registration begins on 21/11/2018 and ends on 10/01/2019.
The final order of those approved: what does it look like?
All systems are independent for classification, but are integrated when results are announced and, in the case of those approved, registration is carried out.
If a candidate has been approved in more than one system, what is the classification order? The diversification of entry systems was designed in a context of promoting greater inclusion, therefore, respecting the number of calls, the idea is to embrace the most inclusive principle.
If a candidate has been invited to enroll in a same course, in the same call, in the Unicamp 2019 Entrance Exam and in other selection system(s), the vacancy to be filled will follow the following order of priority: Unicamp Entrance Exam, Olympic Vacancy Notice, ENEM Notice and Indigenous Entrance Notice.
In a practical way: I passed the same course in the ENEM-Unicamp Public Notice and the Unicamp Vestibular. Your vacancy will be in the Entrance Exam and the vacancy opened in the ENEM Notice will allow another candidate from that list to be called.
Candidates approved in the same call for different courses: the candidate's choice will be valid at the time of registration. Having passed Mechanical Engineering in the Unicamp Entrance Exam and Electrical Engineering in the Olympic Vacancies Notice, the candidate will indicate his preference and the other vacancy will be made available to the next classified in the next call.
If a candidate passed a course in the first call through the ENEM Notice, but was not called in the same call in the Unicamp Vestibular, he or she will have the option of enrolling in the vacancy obtained and, automatically, withdrawing from the other list. If he does not occupy the place in the ENEM Notice, the candidate will continue to compete in the Vestibular system. However, if the vacancy does not materialize, he or she will not be able to claim the place in the ENEM Notice, as this place will already be occupied by another selected student.
Another important piece of information that needs to be reiterated: unused regular vacancies in any new system (Indigenous Entrance Exam, ENEM-Unicamp Notice, Olympic Vacancies) will be transferred to the Unicamp 2019 Entrance Exam.
Unicamp has built a diversified system to meet the demands and expectations of continuing to select the best students. The alternatives were created to cover varied profiles, and the expression of a university committed to the demands of society and in tune with the challenges of its time.
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