JAMB: Unilag Rejects 59,000 Candidates

University of Lagos has rejected about 59,000 candidates who applied
for their tertiary education in the school through the Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board (JAMB). This was in irrespective of the fact
that majority of the students scored above the Board's cut-off mark.
Speaking in an interview with Vanguard, JAMB spokesman, Mr Fabian
Benjamin stated that the Board has entered into an agreement with the
school to post the rejected students to other schools in Lagos
environs.
Though, students claimed they are not aware of where jamb is posting
them to but JAMB says candidates should check its website onFriday,
August 5, 2015 for the schools they are posted to. According to hi,
"Admission is not the way people think. We have Merit, Catchment and
closeness to a state. Those are the criteria we are following to
arrive at that list we sent to UNILAG. It's not about the cut off
point, there other considerations."
"UNILAG has only 9000 capacity this years and that is why we are
trying to push the others to other universities." And they will not
understand we are trying to send them to schools that will admit them
because UNILAGg can only take 9000 but the students are not being
patient with us to get this information across to them."
"We sympathise with them but wish to state categorically that the
national cut off point is just the minimum expectation that each
candidate desirous of university admission should have. "However,
universities are at liberty to go higher than 180, depending on their
peculiarities and the performance of candidates who chose them"
"For instance, if over 10,000 candidates who made Unilag their first
choice scored 250 and above, it will be difficult for them to go lower
than 250 when they are to admit only about 9'000. "I wish to state
that a time will come when some universities will go up to 300 as
their cut off mark, depending on the performance," the statement said.
It explained that because of the development, the board decided that
some of the candidates who chose such institutions but fall below
their cut off marks should not miss out, hence the need to send them
to other schools.
-Vanguard