Compensation for disadvantages

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An application for compensation of disadvantages can be made if there are special personal reasons, for which you are not responsible, which have had an adverse effect on your average grade or your waiting time (see Studienplatzvergabeordnung Hessen: Auswahlverfahren).

    Before submitting such an application, please check self-critically whether it has a chance of success. Not every impairment that an applicant perceives as a "disadvantage" also justifies an improvement in the average grade or the waiting time.

    Examples

    Improvement of the average grade

    • Prolonged absence from classes due to illness during the last three years before acquiring the university entrance qualification (specialist medical certificate),
    • Severe disability with a degree of disability of at least 50 (assessment notice from the pension office),
    • Pregnancy of the applicant during the last three years before acquiring the university entrance qualification (medical certificate or birth certificate of the child),
    • Care of unprovided for minor siblings who lived in the same household as the applicant during the three years preceding the acquisition of the higher education entrance qualification (birth certificates of the siblings),
    • Loss of a parent during the three years preceding the acquisition of the higher education entrance qualification (death certificate of the parent and declaration of marital status at that time).

    Improvement in waiting period.

    • Similar to the above examples of reasonable requests for improvement in grade point average.

    Not usually accepted:

    • Assisting in the parental household, business, or enterprise during school hours without being compelled to do so by hardship.
    • Illness of the parents
    • Relocation of parents prior to the last three years before obtaining a college entrance qualification
    • Participation in an exchange program

    Procedure

    An application for disadvantage compensation must be submitted during the online application process in eCampus. If the application is approved, the applicant will participate in the normal selection process for admission-restricted degree programs or subjects like all other applicants - but with an improved average grade/score.

    The normal procedure is explained here: Admission restriction - Who gets a study place?

    Please note: The decisive factor is the performance in the school years of the upper school that led to the acquisition of the university entrance qualification and not only the final examination alone. 

    Evidence

    Privileged treatment compared to competing applicants can only be justified if the reasons and the extent to which an improvement in the average grade and the waiting period is to take place are credibly asserted.

    You must therefore prove a particularly serious personal exceptional situation and its effects on the acquisition of the university entrance qualification. This exceptional situation can only refer to past or present circumstances.

    During the application process for disadvantage compensation, you will need the following documents:

    • Letter of justification(please upload the document during your online application in eCampus).
    • Appropriate supporting documents, such as expert reports.(please upload the documents during your online application in eCampus).

    All circumstances outlined in the application must be supported by appropriate evidence, otherwise they cannot be considered in the decision.
    The attached supporting documents must be presented clearly enough to allow an outside person to understand your arguments based on the documents.

    Things to know

    Unfortunately, a preliminary assessment of reasons for disadvantage compensation cannot be made. A binding assessment is only possible if a comprehensively proven application for disadvantage compensation has been submitted together with the application for admission.

    Questions?

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