Entrance exams are approaching, bringing that familiar mix of anticipation and uncertainty. If you find yourself asking whether Cásper Líbero is the right place for you, you’re not alone. To give you a glimpse of what lies ahead, we chatted with former students who were once in your exact shoes. Throughout these profiles, you’ll discover how enrolling at Cásper proved to be a life-changing turning point, opening doors and shaping careers in ways they could have only imagined back then.
Meeting Leticia Baggio
Born and raised in the countryside of São Paulo, Leticia Baggio always knew two things: she wanted to pursue journalism and she belonged in a big city. Moving to the capital on her own at just 17 years old, she enrolled at Cásper in 2022 and graduated as a journalist in 2025.
When in school, Leticia says she never had doubts about being a journalist in the future. One example of this is the day she went dressed as William Bonner in an school activity.
By 2022, she began living on her own and started experiencing life in São Paulo. Since her class was among the first to start college after the pandemic, everyone was eager to connect with one another and make new friends. This made it easy for her to build friendships at Cásper.
During her undergraduate studies, Leticia took the opportunity to explore different paths within journalism rather than committing to a single area too early. Her first internship was during her second year, at Estrelando, an entertainment news portal. After that, she briefly worked at Vira Comunicação in public relations, before moving into social media at Planin. These experiences allowed her to experience different aspects of the communications industry, which was important because she thinks “journalism offers many possibilities and she wanted to explore all of them”.
Her time at Cásper Líbero has also helped her build professional connections. Two of her internship supervisors were Cásper students, showing how these connections helped her find opportunities in the job market. On social media, Leticia started creating videos about some of her passions: cinema, books and Séttima, her Journalism Final Project.
The Séttima Magazine is a film publication created by Leticia and her classmates at Cásper Líbero. Focusing on cinema and the film industry, the magazine draws inspiration from Brazilian teen magazines of the 2000s, such as Capricho and Recreio, as well as Revista Oblíqua, another student publication created at Cásper.
Although the idea and editorial direction came from the students themselves, their previous experiences at Cásper Líbero helped them bring Séttima to life. The university’s practical approach to journalism also encouraged them to experiment with different formats and develop the confidence to take on a more ambitious project. With guidance from their advisor, the group was able to organize its ideas and turn them into a magazine that combined their passion for cinema with their own editorial and visual identity.
Beyond exploring different areas of communication, Leticia’s time at Cásper Líbero was also marked by new friendships, college parties, the challenges of adapting to a new city and the experience of creating an original magazine with her classmates. From moving to São Paulo on her own at 17 to graduating and building her professional path, she experienced college as a period of both personal and professional growth.
After discovering entertainment journalism, public relations and social media, Leticia is now entering a new chapter in her career at CNN Brasil, managing the network’s social media and at her own socials, creating content. Her journey reflects how college can be a time to experiment new interests and prepare for the many possibilities that journalism has to offer.
Get to know Clarissa Palácio
With a lifelong passion for writing and poetry, the 8 year old Clarissa Palácio was already composing texts in small notebooks. As a teenager, she developed an obsession with Slam Poetry (competitive poetry battles and circles, such as Slam Resistência at Praça Roosevelt), which shaped her activist side and her passion for purpose-driven writing.
Since her childhood, she bridged two words: born in the capital of São Paulo but spent half of the time in a small town in Minas Gerais, creating an immediate connection with small-town roots.
Clarissa always knew she wanted to work with journalism and writing, but the turning point to enter Cásper Líbero came while chatting with her grandfather at his house. She declared her dream of studying journalism and her grandpa immediately pointed her toward Cásper, calling it the best journalism school.
He shared his own story: growing up in a tiny countryside town in the 1950s, he also loved to write. Starting out delivering newspapers at age 13, he quickly moved on to writing and editing the local paper. Impressed by his talent, the newspaper owner brought him to São Paulo with a spot at Cásper Líbero. However, dazzled by the big city, jazz bars, and cinema dates, he ended up skipping college and missing out on the opportunity.
Because journalism remained his lifelong passion, he always told Clarissa that if she got into Cásper and became a journalist, she would fulfill his dream. Far from feeling like pressure, it became a shared ambition. From that moment on, Clarissa knew: Cásper Líbero had to be it.
At the end of high school, she applied to college, only Cásper, but because of health problems, she couldn’t pass the test. Deciding to move on, Palácio went to follow her other passion: Photography.
Officially graduated as a photographer, two years later, in 2022, she finally took the entrance exam for Cásper Líbero again and was accepted. Entering the journalism course marked the beginning of her professional journey, but it was also an incredibly fun phase of her life. She built deep friendships—some of her closest friends either studied there or are connected through the “Cásper network”—and even met her boyfriend, who is also a Cásper student.
Because of her background in photography, she got to know from photojournalism professors that they needed a photo monitor to help them, so she applied and was hired, and she became a Cásper’s monitor. While it was a fun and rewarding experience, it leaned heavily toward photography—and writing remained her true and enduring passion.
At this time, Clarissa could never know what was held for her in that area: passing for so many vehicles like Estadão, Repórter Brasil, Forbes, Carta Capital, Exame and so many journalism genres -From Copywriting to Luxury Journalism and AI Journalism. She wrote so many great articles about different topics and learned so much about herself.
And the plot twist arrived: nowadays, she works as Editor-in-Chief at Toque Tec, an innovative media outlet blending journalism with Artificial Intelligence. Looking back at the little girl writing poetry in small notebooks, the struggles along the way and the lessons learned, she understood that every detour was simply the exact route to where she was meant to be.
Stories like Clarissa’s and Leticia’s serve as a reminder that taking the leap into a great college like Cásper Líbero is more than an academic choice — it’s the first step toward finding your own voice and defining your future. As application season arrives, the question isn’t just where you’ll study, but where your journey will begin.
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The article above was edited by Eloá Costa.
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