Firstly Simei ITE is the most outstanding campus among all ITE Colleges and its quite obvious that lots of normal technical students will apply for that campus regardless of where they stay.
For retail you must seriously make up your mind before going in because you're going to spend 3 years in ITE instead of 2 years because retail course is only a 1 year course and after that the remaining 2 years, you have to select another course to study so you need to be very sure that you confirm want this before you apply/appeal.
I will not suggest you to take private o now because when you get into ITE, they also have the option to let you take up private o in the campus itself while studying on the other hand your ITE course.
You might want to try another course that have your interest and if still cannot find any other course you like and cannot get in, i suggest you to wait for April or June intake for Simei ITE and apply online once they open the registration for the 2nd batch of intake.
And lastly dont be discourage by your attempts to appeal failure but continue to try because i believe theres always a way out and if you want to study private o, its not something easy for Normal Tech students as you actually got to learn all the secondary school stuffs all over again and you need to plan very carefully because if you fail the private o then it will be waste of time and money coz its very expensive but of coz im not trying to say anything bad so dont get me wrong but plan carefully if thats really what you want.
