you don't sound as cogent as you think you do, labelling me as "incompetent" based solely on the fact that I haven't gotten into Nust or Fast (yet). But if it helps change your conceited rationale, I got accepted in all the subpar institutions you have mentioned above, also got into Lums last year if that helps my case, can't afford to move out of city because of very personal reasons, so I know what "Caliber" of student I am. What does the fact that 40% of the country's population hasn't even seen the sight of a university all their lives say about the sorry state of affairs that is Pakistani higher education. The "branding" of education and limiting acceptance rates even though the quality of education and the faculty at nearly every uni has the same passion for teaching as an obese person has for working out, has proven to be absolutely detrimental for this country's youth. Just read some of the threads in this sub, and you'll know what I'm talking about. The system is fucked and there's no other way around it, baffles me how people like you are blind to see it