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UNAM Applicants Plan March in Mexico City to Demand Clarity on Online Admissions

Protesters are seeking explanations for thousands of canceled online exam processes and may press the university to return to fully in‑person tests if their concerns are not answered.

Overview

  • The march is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, July 27, with groups leaving from Metro Universidad and Metrobús Ciudad Universitaria and heading to the UNAM Central Library.
  • UNAM told applicants that of 191,306 registrants about 2 percent — roughly 3,800 processes — were canceled for alleged conduct contrary to the admission rules during the online exam.
  • Protesters are demanding transparency on the exam results and the cancellations and have said they will seek a return to 100 percent in‑person exams for future admission cycles if the university does not provide clear answers.
  • The Mexico City security agency published a formal agenda for the mobilization, estimated about 300 participants for the UNAM march, and warned of traffic effects in Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc and Miguel Hidalgo.
  • The UNAM march is one of several demonstrations and ongoing sit‑ins across the capital that could amplify mobility disruption, and no official change to UNAM’s admission decisions had been reported as of the published schedules.