After learning from their previous experiences, the Delhi University’s Hindu and Hansraj Colleges have played rather cautiously this year. While the college is still open to admissions, in few popular courses as per the sixth list, the cut-offs have only been reduced to few points from the first list. This tactic has worked as they have managed to avoid over-admissions unlike last year.
According to Hindu College principal Pradumn Kumar, even if exceptionally high cut-offs didn’t get them too many admissions, it helped them steer clear of over-admissions. “Every year we end up taking in more students. So, this year we decided to use a different approach. We were clear that we would not reduce the cut-offs more than 0.50 per cent. last year we faced a lot of problems when we dropped the English cut-off by one per cent. We got 150 students at a go because of that. Thus, this time we were overcautious,” said Kumar.
While Hansraj College has admissions open for popular courses such as English Honours, Economics (H) and History (H), Hindu College has kept admissions even open for the competitive BCom (H). These two colleges are the only ones which have taken to this trend and succeeded. “All other colleges faced over-admissions and shut admissions. Then they suffered during withdrawals. However, by not reducing cut-offs drastically we managed to admit students and not lose too many with withdrawals. There has been a balance this time,” shared Kumar.
Hindu College also has admissions open for BA Programme, English (H) and Philosophy (H). Admissions to all of these courses are closed in other colleges. However, the cut-offs are extremely high even now. Economics (H) has a cut-off of 96.75 per cent in Hansraj College while BCom (H) has a cut-off of 99.25 in Hindu College.
“We just have two-three seats vacant for these courses so we can’t drop the cut-offs as it will lead to over-admissions,” informed Kumar.