OAU Set to Release the First Batch
It’s no news anymore that OAU has released to
JAMB the first batch of the names of people who have been offered admission by
the institution, remaining for JAMB to upload it on their portal. At least
everyone on the list can now see a certain change on their CAPS on JAMB’s website
(i.e. change from NOT ADMITTED YET to PROCESSING ADMISSION). But before I
continue on expatiating the admission news, let me take advantage of this topic
to explain once again that—contrary to what almost everyone thinks—it is not
JAMB that offers admission but the school you have applied to, and CAPS is only
a platform JAMB uses to monitor the
admission processes of every school to make sure no one is offered more than
one admission when there are people who didn’t even get one. In simpler terms,
your school—after screening you—determines the criteria they want to use to
admit applicants, they make a list of the applicants they have considered for
admission based on the criteria they have determined or through any other means
that could make the applicant qualify for the consideration for admission
(runs, slots, etc.), they release the lists to JAMB, and JAMB uploads them to
their web (CAPS). This should be enough to make it clear how it is not JAMB
that offers admission but the school. This could seem like unneeded
information, but for those having issues with their schools and JAMB over their
admission; they cannot see this information as useless.
To continue talking about OAU’s release of
the first batch to JAMB, I must tell that I've been getting news from my
candidates—especially the ones aspiring the departments in the Social
Sciences—that their admission statuses on CAPS have changed from “NOT ADMITTED
YET” to “PROCESSING ADMISSION”. This is a good news-in-the-making for everyone
who now has “PROCESSING ADMISSION” on their CAPS admission status, because it
means in a matter of days or hours, that status would change to “CONGRATULATION
YOU HAVE BEEN OFFERED ADMISSION”, and they would be asked to accept the admission
offer or reject it. So if you have “PROCESSING ADMISSION” on your CAPS
admission status, be glad already, it can only turn to the good news you need
so much right now and nothing else.
Now this is another confusion-causing issue
I'm obliged to discuss; if your name is not with the first batch of names
that’ll be uploaded soon, please don’t panic—at least not yet—as this does not
necessarily mean you won’t be offered admission too—if you have done what you
should do, when you should and as you should. The first batch is called the “Merit
List”; which unarguably means the list will contain only the names of UTME and
pre-degree applicants who got the cutoff of the departments they have applied
to, or at least have the catchment or ELDS marks. Every other person who has
done a thing or two to earn the consideration for admission (especially via “person-know-person”),
people using executives and staffs’ slots, the Direct Entry applicants, the OAU
Diploma applicants, as well as the pre-degree applicants who couldn’t score the
grade point required to be admitted to their aspired department but scored
average or above average of the overall attainable grade point of the Pre-Degree
programme should all expect their names on the subsequent lists (the Second or
Third List). I can only wish you all the best of luck as you expect to see your
good news on your CAPS soon. Just don’t—out of joy—mistakenly click on “reject”
instead of “accept when you see the admission offer on your CAPS. You’ll only
think it doesn’t happen, but it does.
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