Distilling dreams to open the door of the lecture hall

Starting from August 16, 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training will implement a virtual university admission screening process nationwide with more than 7.6 million applications, with each candidate registering nearly 9 applications on average. This process, although becoming a common practice, still attracts great attention from candidates and parents because of its decisive nature in opening doors...

More than seven million wishes and six consecutive rounds of filtering

In 2025, the Vietnamese university admission system continued to record a record number: more than 7.6 million wishes registered by nearly 900,000 candidates nationwide. On average, each student registered from 8-9 wishes, ranging from top universities to local schools. This number not only reflects the cautious mentality of candidates in the context of fierce competition, but also shows the increasing pressure that society places on the admission process.

Candidates for high school graduation exam.

To process this huge amount of data, the Ministry of Education and Training has implemented a centralized virtual filtering process, which takes place continuously in 6 rounds, lasting from August 13 to August 20. The virtual filtering mechanism operates based on the principle of prioritizing the highest wishes: if a candidate is eligible to be admitted to the first wish, the remaining wishes will be automatically eliminated; if not admitted to the first wish, the system will continue to consider the second wish, and so on to the last wish. This helps ensure that each candidate has only one admission result, while limiting the situation where a student is "accepted" by many schools at the same time.

The so-called “virtual” admissions phenomenon is the phenomenon of candidates submitting multiple applications, being accepted to many schools, but in the end only enrolling in one place, leaving unplanned vacancies. Previously, this situation caused many schools to fall into a passive position, having to open additional recruitment rounds, wasting time, money and affecting reputation. With the centralized virtual filtering mechanism, the problem is solved scientifically , data is synchronized across the entire system, helping schools be more proactive in finalizing the admission list.

The virtual filtering process is not an arbitrary intervention, but is based on a standardized algorithm system, closely monitored by the management agency. This gives candidates and parents peace of mind that the final result does not depend on the "favor" or "personal calculation" of each school, but is entirely based on objective data.

Transparency in admissions and pressure behind the university gate

However, despite its many benefits, the virtual screening process has not been able to completely eliminate the pressures that exist during the admissions process. For many candidates, especially those in remote areas, information about the admissions and virtual screening process is limited. Some students register their preferences based on their feelings or listen to their friends, leading to being eliminated from the first rounds and missing out on suitable opportunities. On the contrary, some students are admitted but do not really love their major, simply because they register too much to "ensure" a place in university.

Dream of opening the door to university.

Another problem is the gap between the transparency of the process and the fierceness of the competition. As the benchmark scores of top schools continue to increase, the pressure of studying is put on high school students. Virtual filtering helps with transparency, but cannot replace career orientation, helping candidates choose the right major and the right school. This is the key factor to avoid the situation of "studying for a degree" but having difficulty finding a job after graduation.

It is also important to recognize that virtual filtering is just a technical tool to solve the data problem, not a “magic wand” that can eliminate all shortcomings in enrollment. In fact, the story of fairness, rationality and efficiency of the entire system still depends on many other factors: how schools announce admission criteria, regional priority policies, or even the uniformity in the quality of general education .

However, in the current context of university admissions, virtual filtering is still considered an important step forward for a more orderly and transparent admission season. Behind the dry statistics are hundreds of thousands of family stories and millions of student hopes. Each virtual filtering round is not only a data screening, but also a dream filtering, so that each student can finally find the door that best suits them.

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