5 Reasons Most Students Are Not Offered Admission Despite High Post-utme

Most admission seekers are often times left confused trying to get the reason they were not offered admission to the institution of their choice despite having a very high UTME score. At times, having a high Post-UTME is not a guarantee for admission.
The following are the reasons students may not be offered admission despite having a high post-UTME score;


1 Wrong UTME combination
This is one of the reasons a number of students lose admission despite beating the post-UTME cut-off point. Even at times, some students are being stripped of their admission or moved to another department during the process of first- year registration simply because of wrong JAMB subject combination.
For instance, a student seeking admission to study mass communication would definitely lose the admission if he or she did not take Literature-in-English as part of the four subjects for the UTME exam.
Similarly, a student seeking admission to study Physics and Electronics should definitely select Physics as part of his UTME subject combination.
Before any student fills his or her JAMB form, he or she should painstakingly go through the JAMB Brochure to know the right subject combination for his or her course of study.

2. University’s catchment area
Most federal universities, including some state universities, still retain the policy of catchment area in selecting students for admission. For instance, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. catchment area constitutes majorly North-Central states. What this implies is; prospective students from the North-Central have higher chances of gaining admission.
For example, a prospective student from Kogi state who scored 56, applying to study sociology may be offered admission while another student from Imo state, or Osun State who scored 60 may not be offered admission. This is so because if the catchment cut-off point for Kogi is 56 while the general cut-off is 62, such a student from Imo state or Osun state has definitely lost the admission despite having a higher score than his counterpart from the catchment zone.
In view of the above, admission seekers should always be aware of a university’s catchment area and requirements before selecting any university.

3. University policy
Despite the general catchment area policy, some universities still have their individual policy they adopt as yardstick in admitting students. Often times, such policies are not made public.
It is therefore the duty of admission seekers to find out specific admission policies of their prospective universities from friends schooling in such universities.

4. Low UTME score
Often times, I pity most Jambites who score within the range of 180 and 210 because such scores limit their chances of gaining admission in a situation where they have to compete for the same admission slot with students who score as high as 250 and above.
And most universities like Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. still compute both UTME and post-UTME scores in calculating the student’s average score.
Hence, having a low UTME score can also hinder one’s opportunity of gaining admission.
It is always advisable for students to try to score 250 and above in order to be on a safer side.
As a matter of fact, it is very necessary concerning the JAMB policy of redirecting students with lower UTME scores to less-competitive universities.

5. O’level result
I do advise admission seekers to pass ALL the necessary subjects in their O’level exam(s) very well before going ahead to take UTME exam.
Recently, I have met with students who lost their admissions to study Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. because they do not have at least a credit pass in both Mathematics and English Language in their O’level result or they do not have at least credit pass in some important subjects in their O'level results.
In fact, I felt very sorry for them because gaining admission to study in a competitive University as Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. is not easy.
On a personal note, I believe in all fairness, the management of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. takes it time in ensuring that eligible and qualified candidates, whom having met criteria guiding the decisions for admission placements are considered for placement into various programs in the university.
Feel free to add other reasons that might help prospective applicants...