A critical review of the admission model by academic strata at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Abstract

In the last decade, the process of admission to undergraduate programs at the National University of Colombia, a public higher education institution, has changed significantly motivated by the need to optimize the use of available quotas considered as public scarce goods. Based on a statistical analysis of some indicators of the admission process to the undergraduate curricular programs of the Faculty of Sciences, Campus Bogotá, there is little or no optimization in the use of quotas, in contrast to the justification for introducing the academic strata model in the admission process. The most significant effect of this model is the academic homogenization due to high scores of the applicants admitted; and also that it is against social policies that would allow the admission of applicants from lower social strata.