Secrets Behind Admission Processing to Competitive Departments in OAU
I must clearly state
that this write-up does not intend to argue that OAU’s admission processes are
not merit-based, neither is it saying someone who scores what they need to
score in the screenings would not get their admission easily; all I am trying
to do with this write-up is to point out that there are always many candidates
who would have high scores in all the screenings and still end up not getting admitted—especially
the candidates aspiring the highly competitive courses like: Medicine,
Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Med. Rehab., Law, Accounting and Computer
Science. Candidates aspiring these courses are always too much that even after
the departmental cut-offs are released the qualified candidates would still be
more than what the departments can admit; it becomes a race of who knows who.
To also consider the
fact that OAU gives special preference to their Pre-degree and their JUPEB candidates
than the UTME candidates, it reduces the available spaces that the qualified UTME
candidates would have to compete for. In the end, the reality is that only a
tiny percentage of UTME candidates who score high in the screenings can go home
and rest without doing any extra thing and their admission would be given to
them as easy as that—high score is not the total guaranty of admission in OAU,
the school is too competitive than that. Also, high score is not the total
guarantee that a candidate of any of the highly competitive departments is
assured to be admitted—there are too much underground things happening around
these departments’ admission processes that someone who has the cut-off and just
leaves everything to OAU might just end up having to write UTME again, or at
best they just get another course that’s not what they want.
If you or your child is
trying to get into any of these highly competitive departments (Medicine,
Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Med. Rehab., Law, Accounting and Computer Science),
even if the candidate has gotten everything that qualifies them to merit the
admission, my sincere advice (from experiences) is that you go all out, connect
with resourceful people, make bold moves that would stand you apart from most
of other candidates who also qualify to have what you are trying to have. All
these is so that even when powerful people start doing things powerful people
do to get what they want by all means, your chances of getting what you deserve
is not pushed under the table. You cannot be aspiring any of these competitive
departments (that rich people’s children and extremely intelligent people aspire)
and leave your hope to just your high score, you would be surprised the number
of people who have high scores and still get disappointed per year. Open your
eyes, open your ears, connect and use your connections to seal what you want.
Good luck.
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