How to Get Admission Into the University This Year

9 Steps To Get Admission This Year

When applying for admission into any university, polytechnic, college of education, or any institution that uses JAMB, the initial and widely known step is to get the UTME form, which I guess you’re already familiar with.

But there are additional steps that many people are not aware of. If you know one step, you might be missing out on the others and it is part of our responsibilty to keep you informed on such informations.

To help you remember these steps easily, let’s call them the “the Must-Dos of admission.”

1. Link your Email to the JAMB Portal

Linking of your email is a “must do”. This is very important because linking your email to the JAMB portal is the only way you can be able to monitor the progress of your admission on the JAMB portal/CAPS.

Some students are lucky that their CBT centers linked their email during their UTME/DE registration. But for many others, they need to go back to any CBT center later to do the linking themselves.

To check if you have already linked your email, look at your JAMB registration slip. Next to the phone number on the paper, there should be the email written next to it. If you see “None” next to the phone number, it means you haven’t linked any email with your JAMB portal.

The next thing is to create an email or use any active email you already have and take that to the nearest CBT center to link the email to the JAMB portal.

Once the linking is successful, you will definitely receive a unique password. With this password and the linked email, you can access your JAMB portal. You can also use it for activities like checking your admission status, verifying uploaded results, accepting admission offers, and printing admission letters, etc.

2. Upload your Results to JAMB Portal

There are so many students will miss out on uploading their O’level results to the JAMB portal. Some will miss this very important step because they assume the CBT centers, where they registered, did the uploading for them during the JAMB registration.

Some people will miss it because they don’t know it’s important to do in the first place. Others will miss it because they registered for JAMB with awaiting results but fail to realise how important it is to go back to the same or any other CBT center to upload the result when it’s released and printed.

If you belong to the first category, don’t fully trust your CBT center. Even if you took your results when you registered for JAMB, some CBT centers might not have uploaded them for their candidates. Double-check now and make sure your result is on your JAMB portal before you can relax.

For other categories, you can now see how important the upload of JAMB results is. If you’re yet to know, “JAMB will not offer you admission until you upload your result to the JAMB portal”

Even if a school intends to admit you or has already admitted you, according to JAMB, such admission is still considered invalid.

3. Effect Changes on Both the JAMB and School Portal

If you change institutions and/or courses or any other change of data on the JAMB portal, make sure you initiate the same with the school admission portal.

There are cases where some candidates will change their courses on the school portal without changing them on the JAMB portal; when you do that, the process is not yet completed.

Usually, if you change the institution, you’ll need to obtain the post-UTME form of the new school, not the previous one. Similarly, if you change the course, make sure to select the new course when filling out the post-UTME/screening form, not the course of the previous institution.

Similarly, if you’ve done corrections of names, state of origin, the local government of origin, gender, etc. on the JAMB portal, repeat the changes for the post-UTME too, and vice versa.

4. Obtain Post UTME/Screening Form

I wouldn’t have to say this again if I hadn’t encountered some students who missed their admission because they didn’t get the post-UTME/screening forms of their desired universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and colleges of nursing.

Students like this got the wrong idea that since they’ve chosen a school in JAMB and such schools was already their first and/or second choices, there wouldn’t be the need to obtain another form again and said to themselves; “Just sit back and wait for admission.”

That’s really funny! After JAMB UTME comes to the post-UTME/screening form. Any of your schools of choice will sell its form separately. All aspirants are expected to obtain that too, fill and submit it online.

Though there is usually a long waiting time between the release of JAMB results and the sale of these forms by various institutions. You have to exercise patience and be on the lookout for your own school to start selling its form.

You will get it, usually online, fill it out, and submit it. After that, you’ll either have an entrance exam ( Post-UTME) or a screening (if physical) or if it’s an online screening, you’ll just wait for the admission list.

5. Write Post-UTME When Required

As mentioned earlier, if your school conducts entrance exams for its applicants, it’s called “post-UTME.” If the school only requires you to fill out an online form and wait for the admission list, it’s called “online screening only.” And if you need to fill an online form and also physically visit the school to check your results and credentials, it is then called “online and physical screening.”

If you’re in the post-UTME category, make sure to be among those who partake in the entrance exam on the scheduled date. If you’re in the physical screening category, you need to go to the school for that when it’s scheduled. Those in the “online screening only” category can relax and wait for the admission lists.

If you missed out on the schedule for the post-UTME or screening, you’ve also lost your admission too.

6. Follow Up For Possible Transfer

One of the results of writing post-UTME or taking part in online or physical screening is that students may be transferred from one course to another.

For instance, some universities, after releasing some admission lists or any of that sort may decide to transfer some applicants to other courses from the ones they initially applied for. This may be due to competition in the previous courses or not being qualified for the former courses.

You have to be aware of this possibility. Though you may be contacted by SMS by some schools or JAMB will inform you of the transfer and what to do next, many other schools won’t bother to tell you that you’ve been transferred.

They expect you to follow up, through your JAMB portal, to know when to transfer. So, how do you follow up on a possible transfer? Follow the guide in, “JAMB Transfer Approval: Check, Accept and Next Steps?”.

In summary, log in to your JAMB portal, from time to time. Navigate to the Transfer Approval section. Click to know if you have an awaiting offer. If any, accept it and if you want and do the change of course at the nearest CBT center to the newly transferred/accepted course

7. Accept Admission on the JAMB Portal

Regardless of whether you’re transferred or not, a time will eventually come when you’ll receive an admission offer. Don’t expect the school to send you an email or SMS about it. Only a few schools, if any, may do that. Which is why it is crucial that you check your JAMB CAPS frequently to see if there are any updates.

However, there are cases where schools will offer you admission before JAMB and cases where JAMB will do that before the school. In a situation like this, no need to panic. Wait for them both!

If you don’t keep track of your admission progress on the JAMB CAPS or check your school’s admission portal regularly, you might not know when the board grants you admission.

When offered, on the JAMB portal, all it takes to accept the admission is to click on the Accept button on the JAMB CAPS. After that, print the JAMB admission letter. That’s all.

To accept admission on the school portal, let’s move on to the next section.

8. Pay the Acceptance Fee Before Due

Accepting admission on a school portal involves more than just clicking the “accept” button or link. You also need to pay a specific amount called the “acceptance fee”. If you don’t make this payment, the school won’t recognize you as its student.

Payment is done online. There is no university, polytechnic, or college of education, to the best of my knowledge, that is still accepting payment by hand or through a bank account.

Make sure to pay the acceptance fee first. After that, you can proceed to the freshers’ documentation, screening, or bio-data registration once it’s started or opened.

9. Do Freshers’ Bio-Data/Registration

After payment of the acceptance fee is successful, some schools will still have a waiting period before they ask their students to do the “online students bio-data registration” or resume for lectures.

Some Schools will open the bio-data registration immediately after paying the acceptance fee. Some don’t just do the bio-data registration, they ask them to come for physical screening too, whichever medium used is for you to find out

This step is also important to become fully qualified and officially recognized as a student of the institution.

In fact, even though you’ve paid the acceptance fee, you may lose your studentship if you miss out on this stage too.

Fortunately, most schools will provide plenty of time for students to do this before they close it permanently.

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