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University of Frankfurt am Main: Rejected medical students should receive a replacement offer

2022-09-08T18:07:01.049Z


First there was a place to study medicine, then not, then again: for 282 first-year students in Frankfurt, the past few days have been an impertinence. Now there is a plan how the mistake of the university can be ironed out.


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Training of medical students at the University of Frankfurt am Main (symbol image)

Photo: Michael Schick / imago/Michael Schick

The Board of Trustees of the Foundation for University Admissions (SfH) met for three and a half hours on Wednesday evening.

It was already the second meeting of the committee within a few days, in which the question was: How can the major mistake of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main be ironed out again?

And in a legally and morally justifiable way?

The university had accidentally allocated 282 medical study places too many.

The long discussions led to a result that was finally approved by the Conference of Ministers of Education on Thursday: Applicants who initially received an approval and then a rejection of a medical study place in Frankfurt can expect an alternative offer.

For this purpose, study places that will be canceled nationwide at universities in the coming days will initially be offered to those willing to study who were affected by the Frankfurt breakdown.

This gives them the opportunity to study their desired subject after all – albeit at a different location.

"The federal states very much regret that there was a problem with the approval process in the field of medicine and dentistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main," said Karin Prien, President of the KMK: "This must be corrected as far as possible. “The procedure should be completed by September 16th.

If the reported places are not sufficient for this, "the federal states (...) are also striving for further solidarity support for additional capacities at other universities," says the KMK decision - a kind of guarantee for all those affected.

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Cancellation of commitments: the University of Frankfurt am Main awarded 282 medical study places that it does not have

The Frankfurt University had maneuvered itself into quite a dilemma at the end of August: for the coming winter semester, it has a total of 421 study places for medicine (381) and dentistry (40) to be awarded.

The number is limited in particular by the capacity in the laboratories and in contact with patients and can therefore not be increased at will.

However, the university reported a total of 703 free places to the Dortmund Foundation for University Admissions for the nationwide allocation process - and all of these were distributed to applicants.

30 lawsuits before the Administrative Court

282 too many - 31 in dentistry, 251 in human medicine.

So the university conceded 282 promises again.

Those affected were outraged and started an online petition, some saw their lifelong dreams shattered.

According to SPIEGEL information, 30 lawsuits are already pending at the competent administrative court.

The problem: Whoever agreed to the digital process at the click of a mouse started a fatal cascade.

All offers from other universities were deleted for the moment and offered to prospective students, some of whom accepted immediately.

The prevented applicants from Frankfurt am Main, on the other hand, were suddenly out of the system - a shock.

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Prospective student Helena Carluccio: “Like a slap in the face”

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One of them is Helena Carluccio from Münster.

"It was like a slap in the face for me when I got the email that I didn't have the place at the university after all," says the 22-year-old.

"I've been waiting for a place at a medical school for three years." Because the system allows multiple applications at the same time, she had also expressed an interest in studying in Gießen, Rostock, Bochum, Halle and Saarbrücken - applications that automatically expired with the wrong acceptance.

"In the days that followed, the Frankfurt university wasn't really any help to us," says Carluccio.

Counseling numbers were hardly reachable, and if she had ever had a university employee on the phone, the communication was primarily unfriendly.

Her relief was all the greater on Thursday.

"It's really a relief for me," said the prospective student after the KMK decision became known.

Even if it is not yet clear where she will study from October, the solution that has now been found is an option that she can live with.

It was already clear on Thursday morning that the 282 applicants who were first accepted and then rejected could still hope for a place on the course for the coming winter semester: Goethe University had announced that at least the 31 dentistry students who had been rejected could still apply can still enroll in Frankfurt.

The university had declared that students would now be accepted in the subject “well above capacity”.

This is possible because there is also admission for dentistry in the summer semester.

As a result, the practical parts – in contrast to human medicine – are offered twice a year.

Source: spiegel

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