The rush for admission at School of Open learning (SOl) in Delhi University is on the rise with 50,000 forms already sold. The SOl has an all-automated system to deal with the lakhs of students admitted every year and this year the online registrations have been upgraded 15 days after the offline forms started. Students can apply online as the payment gateway has been cleared, the officials at the SOl confirmed on Thursday.
“A total of 1,500 candidates have already been registered online and the numbers are just going up. Usually, the admission rush begins here after the DU admissions came to an end but this year DU is just halfway and we have sold 50,000 forms already. Since our admissions will go on till September, the sales this year suggest the admissions will go above 1.5 lakh,” said HC Pokhrilal Executive Director, SOl.
He underlined that the online forms will also attract a lot of students as they have introduced the Challan to pay through SBI from this year. “Earlier the students only had the option to pay through Debit or Credit cards like the university. Challan facility is being introduced considering the fact that most students did not have credit cards or even debit cards. Students from corners of Delhi and other parts of the country study from here. While about 60 colleges of DU cater around 50,000 students, our number goes into lakhs. We are immediately giving out the study material after the students submit the application forms,” he added.
Explaining the online registration process, Madhvi, who looks after the internet section of SOl, said that the payment gateway for new options like Challan and also the database of the CBSE 2013 Class XII result was awaited. She said, now the website is all open for students to apply with complete payments.
Although the Delhi University scrapped all the three-year pass courses, the SOl still continues to have the BA and BCom programme of three years.
There is no limited number of seats for the undergraduate courses while as the admission is given on the eligibility criteria given by the university under which a student needs to have a minimum of given pass percentage in Class XII and according to the verification of the data through database system the students is admitted in the particular course he/she applied for.
Students who fear to be left out due to the high cut-offs of the DU have also applied to be on the safer side and mainly candidates with a lover economic background or sports related schedules queue up for these courses.