“…In 2001, the government introduced measures designed to improve access to higher education among this segment of the population known as the social and racial quotas system. However, several studies have questioned how much these measures really contribute to reducing inequalities between students from high-income and low-income families and white and black students and suggest that they run counter to the meritocratic principles of university admission (J. C. F. Araújo & Leite, 2014;Griner, Sampaio, & Sampaio, 2015;Guarnieri & Melo-Silva, 2010;Lima, Neves, & Silva, 2014;Passos, 2015;Piotto & Nogueira, 2016;Santos & Scopinho, 2016;.…”