The purpose of the appellate proceeding is to determine whether the Dean’s decision that has been issued complies with the Higher Education Act, CU constitution, internal regulations of the university and the specific faculty, and, above all, with the stated conditions for the admissions procedure.
Note that there is NO set number of spaces in the study programmes available for students through the appellate proceedings. The Rector can alter the decision that is being challenged and admit the applicant only if the decision of the Dean or the procedure that preceded it contains a flaw that would make it non-compliant with the law.
We recommend that the applicants consider whether the reasons they provide in their appeal align with the reasons for which it is possible to alter the Dean’s decision before submitting the appeal. Note that these reasons do NOT include vast interest in the field of study, obtaining a number of points close to the set minimum number of points needed for admission, having a family tradition in the field, or the fact that some of the successful applicants chose not to sign up for the programme which would in theory free up a space that could be filled by another applicant. These factors alone are not regarded as a sufficient reason to alter the Dean’s Decision.
The minimum number of points needed for admission is only lowered during the complementary admissions procedure. The fact that the student has (or has not) filed an appeal against the Dean’s decision has no bearing on their chances of admission during the complementary admissions procedure.
The announcement of a complementary admissions procedure for any of the available study programmes is not to be expected.
If the applicant fails to list any reasons for their appeal, they will be asked by the Dean to provide them, and the appellate proceeding will thus be prolonged accordingly. In case the appeal is filed by an authorised person in lieu of the applicant, the applicant or the authorised person must provide a letter of authorisation, else the appeal will be deemed inadmissible and subsequently denied.
The appeal can only be filed after receiving the decision on non-admission to study, and it cannot be submitted electronically.