How To Know If You Have Been Offered Admission

There have been situations of students missing their admission because they have no notion that they have been offered admission. This post is for prospects to understand the various means they can be informed of their admission status by their school of preference. 

Various Ways Candidates Can Check If They Have Been Admitted By Any School

1. SMS notification: Most schools will demand that you provide your functional Phone number during Post-UTME or admission registration in the school. Many of these schools will inform you once you have been given admission to the school by sending a text message to the phone number you used when you applied for admission to the school. This is why candidates should provide their active phone numbers if needed while applying for admission.

2. Email Notification: Just like phone numbers, many schools also ask candidates to provide their email addresses while applying for admission. Admission information is equally sent to candidates through this method. The unfortunate thing, nonetheless, is that many candidates barely check their emails. If you are an admission applicant, you should check your email address regularly in case your school decides to send admission notifications via this method.

3. JAMB CAPS: JAMB Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) makes it possible for prospective candidates seeking admission into various tertiary institutions to monitor their admission status and effortlessly know when they have been given admission by any school

4. School Portal: Nearly all the tertiary institutions in Nigeria currently have their own websites. Most of these schools do declare openly the release of the admission list and publicize the names of admitted students on their websites. Candidates seeking admission are reckoned to know the official website of their school of choice and closely monitor it to know when such announcements concerning admission have been made.

5. JAMB Matriculation List: This was recently introduced by JAMB. Candidates can confirm if they have been offered admission and if their admission is recognized by JAMB via the JAMB Matriculation List portal. I