Of course, anyone aspires to budget places in the coveted university , therefore applicants every year zealously monitor the number of free places in their chosen specialty. However, it happens that the real amount of the "budget" is less than the initially declared figure? How does this come out? How to realistically and truthfully calculate the available number of free places?
Who can qualify for the budget place in the first place?
The answer is simple: the categories of applicants that fall under the benefits and quotas. Such applicants have special rights and privileges, priority, they, as the classic said, "more equal than others." Who could it be?
Merit Awarded Students
These are Olympiads, gifted children, talented and titled athletes. However, they can use their bonus only once - only one specialty in only one faculty. However, in this chosen position, they have an almost 100% chance of entering the budget.
Unified State Exam scores
I scored 100 points on the Unified State Exam - you are equated in terms of knowledge with the winners of the Olympiads. Here, the applicant can "grant" his bonus already in several universities, but only if the subject of the exam corresponds to the profile of the faculty / specialty. If you scored 100 points on the exam in literature, and then suddenly decided to go to the journalism faculty, a hundred-point certificate will not help you.
People with disabilities, orphans, war veterans and refugees
The traditional category, which the state cares about in the first place - and this is not a bad thing. According to the law, each university is obliged to allocate at least 10% of budget places for such children for each (!) Specialty - however, they are far from always filled, so everyone else has a chance. This category of beneficiaries has only one rule - to collect the minimum score on the exam (it is set every year and may change slightly).
If a student-beneficiary and an “ordinary” applicant gain the same number of USE points, priority is given to the beneficiary.
How to calculate the real number of budget places in the desired specialty?
- First of all, find out at the admissions committee how many budget places the university allocates for your specific specialty - for all cases: both the general competition and the beneficiaries.
- After the list of the "first wave", specify how many applicants want to enter your specialty on a "preferential" path or on a quota - this information must be communicated openly. Some universities / faculties / institutes even pre-determine the number: who will go for general admission, and who for preferential.
- Subtract the number of item 2 from the figure of item 1 - and you will know how many budget places are available in the general competition.
Be sure to consider the waves of applicants: the first one usually fills 80% of places, so 20% remains for the second. True, the results are always rounded up, for example:
A total of 60 places are allocated for your specialty. 5 Olympiads and 2 beneficiaries have already submitted applications, so 53 places remain. The first wave - 80% - will formally be 42.4, but 43 people will be enrolled.
If you see that you are not going through the general competition, you should not give up: there are always those who apply for several directions (even certain categories of beneficiaries have the right to apply for admission to several faculties / institutes - see above), so always there is an option that someone will refuse the offered place - and it will go to you.
True, a pattern can be traced here: the more prestigious the university is, the less willingly the applicants who pass the “won” place are rejected. If a person has passed - by competition or by privilege - in MGIMO or INTO, the chance that he will prefer another direction is small. However, it is! But remember that you shouldn't hope for a chance, and we are desperately cramming and preparing for the Unified State Exam.
