Mother Exposes College Admissions Chaos in Tyumen

In Tyumen, applicants and their parents continue to complain about the harsh conditions of college admissions. One mother published a video showing how several hundred teenagers simultaneously try to enroll in a single program with only 30 places. The woman wonders: what will happen to the rest? And what should they do if returning to school is no longer an option?

The author of the video asked her subscribers for advice.

“My son decided to enroll in college after the 9th grade. He passed the OGE well in 4 subjects. His certificate grades are 4s and 5s, with a 3 only in chemistry. His GPA came out to 4.25. In June, applications were being accepted for the 10th grade, but you need a certificate without any 3s, and its original had to be submitted in June, when we were trying to enroll,” says the young woman, Inga.

We found her on social media and learned why her son faced problems with enrollment. It turned out that his previous place of residence also played a major role. After the school year ended, the family moved to Tyumen from Nizhnevartovsk. As a result, her son automatically acquired the status of an “other person” upon enrollment. Such applicants have far fewer chances of getting a state-funded place.

Nevertheless, they submitted applications through “Gosuslugi” to all possible colleges in Tyumen.

“We submitted documents to many colleges that offer our specialty — ‘Informatics and Software Engineering’ — everywhere with the word ‘informatics.’ We considered both state-funded and paid options,” 72.RU reader Inga recounts. “But judging by the lists, we risk not getting in either way. Everyone who has been admitted has already started receiving admission notifications. For us — silence. We call the college, they say wait until August 21. But I look at the lists, at this army of children, and I don’t understand — where will all the others go?”

The woman complained that colleges are forming groups of 30 people, but there are many times more applicants. For some specialties, the lists have 300 and 500 people. Of those, only 5–6 are state-funded, the rest are beneficiaries.

“How it used to be: if you don’t get a state-funded place, you study for a fee. But now paid programs have been removed in many places! So what are we supposed to do? They won’t take him back to school because applications had to be submitted back in June, and the classes are already full. Our problem is also that my son finished school in Nizhnevartovsk and had his heart set on studying at a college in Tyumen. Where do we go now?” Inga laments.

The education department said that children who took the OGE in 4 subjects must be admitted to the 10th grade. However, there are grounds for justified refusal: lack of places in general-education classes, strict selection for specialized classes. But even in such cases, parents can turn to the education department for help — specialists must find a place in the 10th grade at another school.

Recall that on August 15 in Tyumen, dozens of applicants lined up in huge queues to submit documents to college on the last day. The crowd stretched along the entire street — take a look.