OAU Admission Rush
Being around OAU since 2006—first as a
candidate, then as an undergraduate, then as a postgraduate student, and also
as a known educational consultant in Ife—has given me a huge load of experience
over how admission goes in Obefemi Awolowo UnIversity (OAU) at whatever
level—from the level of the pre-degree, to the undergraduate (UTME and DE), and
to the postgraduate; so much for refusing to leave Ife as almost everyone does
when they manage to finish their first degree programme in OAU. No one loves to
come back to OAU after escaping the school the first time (the word 'love' in
the statement was carefully chosen). But people like me, we just act like OAU
is the only university in the country, and we can’t afford to not be there. And
sometimes, it does really feel as though OAU is the only university in the
country. I mean, does it not sound like the lion is the only animal in the
forest sometimes?
Year in year out, jambites who choose OAU in
their matriculation application—after doing “well”—in their UTME just come to
OAU to write the Post-UTME thinking gaining admission to OAU will never be any
difficult than cooking noodles; but at the end of it all, most of them always
get disappointed. I’m—on this note—making this article to make some things
clear on the things OAU applicants must know if they’ll be admitted. I enjoin
you to read this article and digest it if you are processing your admission to
OAU or you’re aspiring to be in OAU someday.
People always say you don’t have to “know”
somebody before you can be admitted to OAU; LOL, funny. For the sake of not
wanting to disrespect the bureaucracy of my university, I’ll like to agree with
that notion that you do not need to know somebody to be admitted to OAU. But to
be blunt? Believe this: that notion only works for a very tiny percentage of
applicants per admission year; and when I say tiny percentage, I mean like
10-20%. This percentage involves the people who score—in the screening
criteria—what their aspiring departments require as the cut-off. Take for instance,
if Economics says their cut-off is 67% or 268/400, and a person’s scores such
mark; such person should just go home and start buying the things they’ll need
in school; because—other things needed put in the right places—such person will
be admitted! They should just wait for the merit list to see their name boldly
written on the school’s portal. These are the set of people who don’t have to
know somebody before they can be admitted to OAU. But if a person scores 66% or
267/400 to go 1% or 1 mark below what Economics requires in the example cited
above; quote me anywhere, such person needs to know somebody to be admitted to
OAU! Unless the slightly reduced cut-off marks used for catchment areas and
Educationally Less Developed States (EDLS) favor such person—which is also at a
very small percentage too. It means most people who apply for admission to OAU
need to know somebody before they can be admitted, because—let’s face it—how
many candidates really make the cut-offs per year?
I have been around OAU for a while, I have
seen cases when a person who scored 270 was not admitted for Law because the
cut-off for Law was 274, and another person who scored 239 and comes from the
same state as the first person was admitted for Law. Now, what just happened here?
One of these people knows who they should know, and they made productive use of
whom they know. There are always many cases like this every admission year in
OAU; it all depends on who you know, what they can do for you, and how
seriously they take your matter.
If you already understand what I'm trying to
say here, then you should already know I'm trying to warn you to not romance
the notion: “you don’t have to know somebody to be admitted in OAU”, unless you
have scored what is required of you by your aspired department. Understand
this: you really need to know somebody to be admitted in OAU if you are even
0.1 mark below the cut-off, or—by self-knowledge—you yourself doubt if the
score you have at hand can ever be enough to get you admitted to the department
you want. If such of these is your case right now, then it’s high time you
started talking to someone who can reliably help you with your admission
processing—someone who knows OAU and her system enough to be able to get your
papers to where it should get to.
Now, you should be thinking of contacting
Pathfinders Edu Consultancy already. Let’s do something about your admission
processing that’ll benefit the two sides—yours and ours. You gain your
admission, you pay us a token for doing for you what we know how to do. That’s
fair for the two sides right? Now, make the call: 08139534187; let's talk about
your admission.
I had to add this to this article because
I've been getting calls concerning this. For as many of you who applied for the
highly competitive courses like Medicine, Law, Economics and Accounting, and
you are already relaxing because you scored higher than the departmental cut
off in the Post-UTME screening; I'm enjoining you now to get up from your
relaxation and start doing what you have to do now if you don't want to lose
your admission even with the high score you carry for hand. Your high score
does not guarantee your admission to these departments o, you will have to
shine your eyes, open your ears, and do something not many people will know you
did. Na the truth I just yarn you so. Make good use of it.
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