Something the 2021/2022 OAU Aspirants Must Know About their Admission Selection Process
One of the important things
any aspirant of OAU of this admission session is expected to have heard is
about how from the candidates of the recently written Post-UTME, OAU is and can
only admit 40% of their NUC admission quota (I will expatiate on this quota and
the 40% later, but first get why this is so). This is so because the COVID-19 lockdown
made schools loose an academic session in 2020/2021, meanwhile JAMB was still running
their admission session by continuing to conduct UTME and DE. This means for
schools to be able to keep their academic session up with the admission session,
they would not only have to cancel an admission session or merge two admission sessions
together, but for any school merging two admission sessions up. They would also
have to admit lesser than their usual NUC quota from each of the admission sessions
they are merging together; this is the case of OAU.
OAU’s NUC quota as at
the 2017/2018 admission session was 11,000 to be matriculated for an admission
session. I know this because OAU admitted about 15,000 the said session and NUC
had to put a check on that (that was the year NUC was hot and dis-accrediting
departments and schools anyhow). This said session, OAU had to scatter the about
15,000 names they had cleared for admission to remove thousands of them so they
could fit into their NUC quota. I do not know what the NUC quota for OAU is at
this time, but let’s assume it’s still 11,000. This would mean the 60:40 ratio OAU
is using to admit from the two admission sessions merged together would mean 60%
of the NUC quota from one session and 40% from the other. OAU had admitted the
60% (6,600 of 11,000) from the 2020/2021 applicants who wrote the Post-UTME earlier
in 2021, and the remaining 40% (4,400 of 11,000) would be admitted from the
2021/2022 applicants who wrote the Post-UTME later in 2021, and the two
admission sessions would resume together in January 2022 for the 2021/2022
academic session.
Now, the important
thing I said every aspirants of OAU of this 2021/2022 admission session must
know is that OAU is only taking 4,400 no matter how many candidates passed the
screening. Now, for your chances of getting admitted to be high, it has to be: (1)
you have a really high aggregate score—in fact a score that is normally too
high for the course you are aspiring for; (2) you have to know somebody of high
office in the management (take this seriously); and (3) you have to be ready to
do whatever it’d cost you for your name to be listed for admission this year.
4,400 is a very small number to pick from the thousands of people who passed
the Post-UTME; admission can’t be on merit on this one. I wish you success as
you find your way around getting the support you really need.
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