This dissertation makes a diagnosis of the trajectories of scholarship students of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. A qualitative research with ethnographic inspiration was found to be the best methodological resort to understand the complexity of the different mechanisms used by undergraduates to enable them to stay in university and to obtain their degree with good academic performance. To present the different characteristics of such student, usually the first university student in his or her family, the main characteristics of contemporary youth and present theoretical arguments were investigated to interpret this human subject that is in a relational network. It became evident that some young people interviewed attribute political values to corporal aesthetics and call themselves geração tombamento [overturn generation], demonstrating that this is a tactic of empowerment. Trying to understand the different difficulties that scholarship holders face, they can be classified into five spheres of difficulty: academic, economic, sociability, emotional, besides those generated by the distance between this university and the students residence. For each sphere of difficulty, the student seeks mechanisms to overcome the situation. As a result of this research, it is possible to observe that the scholarship policy reached not only undergraduates and their social groups, but also has been contributing to the consolidation of a more diverse and democratic university field.