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Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos

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FIGUEIREDO, Mateus Silva. Quotaholders filling widely contested vacancies in federal universities: the concurrent competition in Sisu’s waitlists. R. Bras. Est. Pedag. [online]. 2023, vol.104, e5598.  Epub Dec 22, 2023. ISSN 2176-6681.  https://doi.org/10.24109/2176-6681.rbep.104.5598.

Federal universities must allocate at least 50% of their vacancies to students from public schools, due to the Quota Law, and establish the rules for their selection processes and affirmative actions. One of these rules consists in defining the candidates which apply to quota modalities with adequately high scores to fill unreserved vacancies, in what is called concurrent competition and can occur from the second call for selected candidates onwards. It is through public notices that students learn the rules to base their decisions on. Thus, were analyzed the regulations of the 60 federal universities that participated in SISU 2021-1. The analysis revealed that 27 universities have explicit public notices as to whether to adopt concomitant competition; 32, however, possess a vague or omitted public notice, making it difficult for students to make an informed choice. Waitlist admission results were also analyzed. It was observed that 22 universities allow concurrent competition, 21 adopt competition in separate lists, and 15 could not be determined. Two universities were considered outliers. This study reveals the urge to improve university public notices in order to enhance the transparency of selection processes and deepen the discussion on whether to adopt concurrent competition by universities and the impact of this measure on the admission of public school students into higher education.

Keywords : quota system; reservation of vacancies; access to higher education; federal education legislation.

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