These days, being admitted to
your dream course through JAB is a lottery of sorts. Consider for example that
in the 2011 KCSE, about 1900 students attained straight As. One is pretty sure
that a majority of such students have selected medicine as their first choice. However,
since there are only about 200 or so places in our medical schools, then there
are bound to be over 1700 students who will not be picked to pursue medicine. If
we consider that for example, the top performing school, Maranda High school,
had 97 straight As, then the statistics look grim. If we just picked Alliance and Maranda
alone, then they would fill almost all the places in our medical schools. Those
are just two schools alone. We haven’t even taken account of the top ten
schools.
When JAB meets to select
students for the regular program, it sets the cut off points for each course.
The courses with the highest cut off points are usually Law, medicine and
electrical/computer engineering. Even though the admission process is on merit
alone, in some instances, at least implicitly, some diversity and affirmative
action may be undertaken. For instance, for a medical class to be truly
representative there will have to be sprinkles of students from some
marginalized areas even if they may have scored a point or two lower.
Many JAB students are
routinely frustrated as they fail to get their first degree choice. In fact,
sometimes, it seems as though the board is shrouded in mystery, with students
being thrown into courses they sometimes never even selected in the first
place. For some students, they do recover and embrace their new courses,
whereas for others, the downward trend in the academic charts begins.
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