The rain-soaked Thursday morning saw the rush of students who were matching the soaring cut-offs to get admission in their preferred colleges at the North Campus. Most of the colleges have increased the cut-offs for the undergraduate courses as compared to last year.
Owing to the high cut-offs, the first day of admission did not see much crowd. Many students had just come to secure a seat in the prestigious Delhi University, be it any college or course.
At Kirori Mal College, the most sought course was BA (prog) with 91per cent cut-off. Pavni, an aspirant from Meerut told The Pioneer that she had taken admission in BA (prog) just to be on a safer side and would switch to B.Com if she meets the cut-off in the second list. Another aspirant, Swati Awasthi from Kanpur says, “I have got 96 per cent in arts and want to pursue History. I have taken admission at KMC at 95.5 per cent cut-off on the first day itself because it has the best faculty. Even if I get in lSR, I would not leave this seat”.
The first day at KMC saw no admission in Pol.Sc (H) at 98 per cent whereas B.Com (H) received 5 admissions at 97.25 per cent with none from the general category.
Indraprastha College for women saw one admission in psychology at 97 per cent while many students came to get admitted to Philosophy at 90 per cent being one of the lowest cut off at the college. The courses with low cut offs saw the most rush as the aspirants are desperate to save a seat for themselves at DU. The BMMMC entrance test II was also being conducted during the same time at IP with 173 applicants who passed the entrance test I, out of whom only 52 would be selected, having 26 seats for the general category.
The colleges seemed well prepared for guiding the aspirants as many volunteers could be spotted outside every counselling room. However, talking to The Pioneer, parents of an aspirant at Daulat Ram College said, “Our daughter is inside the counselling block since 10 am and we are standing outside since then contacting her through mobile. No one is allowing us inside but we saw many parents going there”. History (H) saw some rush at 93 per cent at Daulat Ram. Kirti, an aspirant said that her first preference is History but not at this college. She added, “The form filling procedure is very chaotic, I had to wait for three hours and still my form is not being submitted. I have to get other documents and come on Friday again. There are very less teachers and staff to tackle the admission seekers”.
The Hindi (H) course at Daulat Ram saw Zero admissions on the first day. Teachers from DRC told The Pioneer “Every year there are a lot of withdrawals after the first cut-off and one can see more rush once the second list is announced. Reduction in the percentages for the second list depends on admission to the first list. Students always try to go for the best courses and colleges”.