The Management of University of Ilorin has denied allegations on social media accusing the school of being biased in offering admission.
The allegation came after the school allegedly denied one Mr Ayuba admission into the university.
He said, “Our admission policy protects the rights of all candidates who apply to the institution through the principle of equity, fair play and justice.
“In essence, qualified candidates don’t have to know anybody, either in our university or in higher quarters to be given fair and just consideration.
“The candidate under reference, Ayuba Nusebah Folashade, with Registration No: 212 77550JA, who is an indigene of Kogi, scored 268 in the UTME.
“She has the following polled O Level Score: Maths = B3, English = C4, Chemistry = B3, Physics = C4, Biology = C5,” he said.
Akogun stated that Ayuba’s ggregate score, which was derived from the computation of her UTME score (50 per cent) and five best relevant O’ Level grades (50 per cent ), is 60.17.
“In our admission consideration, the following criteria come into play: National Merit, Catchment Area and Educationally Less Developed States.
“In other words, for any candidate to be admitted, he/she must meet at least one of these three criteria,” he said.
The director added that for Ayuba’s preferred course of study, Doctor of Optometry, the Merit Cut-off Point is 68.38; Catchment Areas’ Cut-off Point is 64.17, while Educationally Less Developed states’ Cut-off Point is 63.5.
“So, with an aggregate score of 60.17, it is clear that this candidate did not meet any of the set criteria.
“Apart from her failure to meet the objective cut-off point, Ayuba ranked 99th on the table of 394 qualified UTME candidates that picked Optometry as their preferred course of study.
“At the end of the exercise, 63 candidates were eventually offered admission. This means that there are 35 other Optometry candidates who performed better than Ms Ayuba that didn’t scale through,” he said.
He further explained that the management had tried to go into this detail in order to clear all doubts about its admission process.
“It should be pointed out that processes on the JAMB Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) contain checks and balances that will not allow any candidate to be skipped if he/she is qualified for admission into a programme going by the set criteria,” he stated.