Though the scorching heat and long queues seemed to take a toll on the students and parents who had turned up outside colleges waiting for their chances on Friday, day 2 of admissions at Delhi University ran smoothly.
Moreover, a large number of students successfully managed to get admission in their desired colleges.
Students from outside the Capital faced hard time as they stood outside the cyber hubs around the colleges to get a printout of the admission slip.
"I was expecting that colleges would let us use their computers to take the printouts of the admission slips, however they refused so I have to now look for cyber hubs nearby. I am getting very jittery," said Dhanujay Srivastava, an aspirant from Hyderabad.
Many aspirants were confused regarding which subjects to consider in the best four. Arushi Datt, a Maths (H) aspirant, said, "I always got good mark in Maths but this time I scored quite low. That is why I didn't include Maths in the best four despite meeting the cut-off and authorities telling me that I will be levied a 2.5 per cent disadvantage for not including Maths in the best four."
The general category students who couldn't make it in the first list were forlorn to see the seats filling up so fast in the top colleges as this meant there might not be a second cut-off for most colleges.
"I missed the cut-off for Hansraj by one mark so now I'll have to wait for the second list to make my way through my dream college, hoping the seats don't fill up in the first cut-off." said Samarth, a Physics (H) aspirant.
In DU every mark counts.
"I am so delighted that I made it through the first cut-off by a whisker, into my dream college. Had I scored a mark less I would have missed it," claimed Rachna Malhotra, an aspirant.
With the ongoing DUTA teachers strike going on, the university roped in non-teaching staff to carry out the admission process as smoothly as possible.