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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Fourth list: Seats still left in top-draw BCom

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There is some hope left for those who were not able to get through in the first three rounds of admissions in Delhi University There are still a few seats left in several colleges all over the city, including coveted ones in north and south campus for popular courses like English(H), History(H), Hindi and Political Science(H).

Colleges like Hans Raj, Hindu, Kirori Mal, Moti Lal Nehru, PGDAV Ram Lal Anand, Ramjas, Satyawati Co-ed, Khalsa, Zakir Husain and Deshbandhu still have seats available in different courses. While in Hans Raj admissions are still open in BCom(H), Mathematics(H) and Sanskrit(H), Hindu has declared a fourth list for BA Programme, BCom(H), English(H), History(H), Mathematics(H) and Sociology(H). The cutoffs marks have further dropped by 1-2 per cent.

But the fourth cutoff list still managed to throw up a few surprises. Delhi University's fourth cutoff list for academic year 2008-2009 has turned the BCom(H) admission prediction on its head. This course was tagged as one of the most sought after subjects at the time of common form analysis. However, this seems far from the truth as many top campus colleges continue to remain open for admission to BCom(H).

Commerce courses

Hansraj College, Hindu College, Kirori Mal College and Daulat Ram College - which are some of the most popular colleges for BCom(H) after Shri Ram College of Commerce - are the four north campus institutions that have dropped their cutoff by 0.25 to 1 per cent in the general category Hindu College, which had in fact the highest number (23,850 candidates) of applications through the centralised form for this course, has decreased its qualifying marks from 93.5-96.5 per cent to 93.25-96.25 per cent. Off-campus institutions such as Maharaja Agrasen and College of Vocational Studies have brought down their cutoff percentage by another .5-1 per cent.

Science courses

Science courses have still not found many takers. According to the fourth list, there are still seats left in popular science courses like Physics(H), Chemistry(H), Botany and Electronics(H).

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Delhi students may lose out on top courses

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Applicants from the city far out number outstation students seeking admission to Delhi University this year. But outstation students stand a better chance of getting the top courses in the sought-after colleges.

An analysis of the centralised common pre-admission forms reveals that the ratio of local and outstation applicants is around 70:30 this year. "After introducing pin codes in the optical mark reader forms this year, we've tracked the number of applications coming from Delhi, which does not include NCR. We have 64,090 forms from Delhi and 27,000 from outside Delhi," said Suman Verma, Joint Dean (students welfare).


Regional affiliations don't guarantee city students a seat in Delhi University's top courses or popular colleges, say principals.

"A lot of Delhi candidates do apply but the best courses are taken by outstation candidates with high scores," said Sri Ram College of Commerce Principal P Jain. "We have applicants .C. from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Boards with scores of 95 per cent and more. Since boards across the country have witnessed good results this year, Delhi students are bound to lose out."

In 2007, only 110 students from Delhi made it to SRCC against 203 outstation ones. Ramjas College Principal Rajendra Prasad confirms a strong representation of outstation candidates this year. "We have numerous candidates from state Boards with 92 per cent and above and they will definitely land good courses at DU."

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