Hundreds of Moldovan young people who want to study at a university in Romania are queuing up at the Romanian Consulate on Grigore Ureche St in Chisinau. Even if the members of the joint admission commission urged the young people to avoid crowdedness and to come to the consulates according to the alphabetic order of the names, the young people spend Friday night in front of the consulates, as the previous years, IPN reports.

While some of the young people are angry that the ‘first come, first served’ principle is not respected, others welcome the decision to accept the applications according to the alphabetical order. Some parents said the practice of the previous years, when there was compiled a single list, was more effective. Others said that compared with the previous years, the queues are shorter. The young people said they want to study in Romania because the quality of studies there is higher and there are more possibilities. Medicine and economy are the most popular faculties. 

A group of volunteers studying in Romania are helping the young people to fill out the forms and compile the lists. Carolina Sclifos, who studies in Romania and is a member of the Association of Bessarabia Students, said that more than 500 candidates filed applications yesterday.

The volunteers urge the young people to find out exactly what documents they need so as not to spend additional money on legalizing unnecessary copies. Compared with the previous years, fewer young people were rejected by the admission commission. Most of the applicants solved the problems and submitted the documents the same day. On July 27, there are accepted applications from persons whose names start with I to P.

For the 2013-2014 academic year, the Romanian authorities provided about 5,500 places at Romanian education establishments for Moldovan young people, by 500 more than last year.