Dow Medical College, DMC

Assalam-o-alaikum!

I checked the DUHS (Dow University of Health Sciences) merit list today at 10 am... Alhamdolillah, I was on the list at number 12! Finally, Alhamdolillah... years and years of education, from K.G. to seconday school, culminate in admission into University.

The medical colleges that come under the head of DUHS are Dow Medical College (DMC) and Sindh Medical College (SMC). Both has 219 seats each, under the category of 'open merit'. So, if your merit score (10% of lower seconday result + 40% higher secondary result + 50% admission test) gives you a rank of under 219, you get into Dow, and if you get a rank between 220 and 438, you get into SMC. That makes up the 438 seats for Open Merit.

The advantages of the Open Merit, or simple 'merit', category are multiple, most importantly, your tuition fee is greatly reduced... around Rs 12000 per year (Just $200 a year!) compared to the regular fee Rs 2 lakh for a government college ($ 3333) and around Rs 4 to 5 lakh ($6666-8333 a year) for private medical colleges. You can now see why everyone wants to get in on open merit into a government college!

Anum and Saima both Alhamdolillah, got a merit score that enabled them to be eligible for SMC! Both were obviously hoping for Dow, but if out of 4000 students, you are ranked on 266 (Anum) and 277 (Saima), I think that's worthy of a standing ovation!

The final merit list will be issued in a few days and during this time, any complaints brought forward by candidates will be addressed.

Alhamdolillah, despite various odds, we cousins now have a seat each in the medical colleges and as for the distribution of the seats, some in DMC and some in SMC, there will be, inshAllah, betterment. I may sound like the wrong person to be saying this, getting into Dow myself, but I think I speak for everyone when I say that, Alhamdolillah, all thanks to Allah, we have been spared the wait of another year... and should be thankful to get a place... where so many others haven't been able to this year. There must be so many girls and boys like us who wished so much to get admissions, and I know many too, and we must be sincerely and truly thankful to Allah for giving us this chance to make our dreams come true. As for our destiny, it will be for the better, inshAllah.

This is a stepping stone in our lives, another turn, another page... if you look at the true logic and reasoning behind this, you would realise that the goal remains as it is, even for those who failed to get admission... the goal of the Hereafter. Whatever you do, whether you eventually become a doctor, engineer, teacher, etc., you have to be a good Muslim, wherever you are!

Assalam-o-alaikum wa rehmatullahi wa barakatohu!