Waiting
on OAU’s Admission Lists
As of today, OAU has to be the only Nigerian tertiary
institution left yet to release any admission list at all, and that’s what we
are known for—taking our time on everything. However, this could be a bad thing
as much as it could be a good thing, as taking official things slow could mean
perfection is what we are shooting for, or it’s just that our staffs aren’t swift
about their jobs. But whatever the case is, if OAU is making you wait for the
admission list, it’s only wise that you know why you are waiting and how you
should be waiting. I cannot help you know why you are waiting—it’s in your
decision you made by choosing OAU and working hard to pass all the screenings
you have passed, but I could help you know how to wait, and that’s what I’m up
to right about now.
As the UTME and our tertiary institutions are
structured now, it is almost impossible for an admission seeker to be considered
for admission by other schools on their choices of institution if their first
choice of school doesn’t offer them admission. It’s more or less like you are
choosing just one school and if that one school doesn’t admit you, then you
will have to go do Change of Institution to put another school on your first
choice of school so you could stand a chance of being screened and considered for
admission by the newly chosen school. But in this case when all the schools
open and close their registration for Post-UTME/screening and close it almost
at the same time, it means if you failed the Post-UTME of one school or get
rejected for admission by the school, you may find it difficult to find any
school left to register for their Post-UTME/screening. Then in the case of OAU that
likes to conduct their Post-UTME later than most schools, and also like to
release their admission lists far later than most schools, it means if OAU doesn’t
admit you, your next and only option may have to be the next UTME. So as you
are waiting on OAU to release their admission lists, it must be at least one
of:
1. you are very certain you will be admitted,
because you beat either of the merit score, catchment score or the ELDS score,
and you have done perfectly all you should do that no faults could be found
about your application. But even at this level of qualification and perfection,
I must tell you that you still need MORE to get courses in the Health Sciences,
Law, and courses like Accounting and Economics;
2. your runsman or admission helper has
assured you of an admission—even when you do not beat the cutoff, and you trust
their words; or
3. You have made your decision to wait on OAU
for as long as it takes, and if (God forbids) you are not offered an admission,
to give up or just write UTME again next year is what you are doing.
It is not possible that you are waiting on OAU’s
admission lists and how you are waiting is not at least one of the three
mentioned above. But I must tell you that the most dangerous of the three ways
candidates wait for OAU’s admission list is the second on the list, because
apart from the fact that you have to really trust your runsman or admission
helper to have decided to wait on OAU based on these people’s words and actions
to help you gain the admission even when you do not have the cutoff score, you
have also chosen to put your chances to write the next UTME on the line. This is
what I mean, UTME registrations begin early nowadays, in fact the one for 2020
had already started, even when OAU is yet to release any admission list, it means
by the time the Third List is released, registration for next year’s Post-UTME may
have closed. You see what I mean?
Remember, if you do not have any of the merit
score, catchment score or ELDS score, it means your name cannot come out with
the First List, and that’s because the First List is the Merit List, and only
the ones who have either of these scores mentioned above merited the admission,
everyone else will always have to wait for the Second List and Third List. It’s
still safe to wait on the Second List without trying to register for another UTME
already, but very very unsafe to wait for the Third List without haven’t register
for the next UTME. That is because: one, the Third List is a very very slim
list; and two, it comes out much later—sometimes after the matriculation of the
ones admitted on the First and Second Lists. So I advise you, when the First
and Second Lists are all out and your name is not on them, please register for
another UTME already as you wait on the Third List. I wish you all the best.
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