North Campus College had sought correct marks for admission to the course in the first list and the cut-off remains unchanged in the second list released on Saturday.
“In the first list, we had approved 33 admissions for 31 seats, but only 29 students paid the fees. We have only two vacant seats and hence we have not reduced the cut-off as we do not want more admissions. The cut-off for BSc (Hons) Physics has come down from 100 per cent to 99.33 per cent, while the cut-off for BA program combination has come down from 100 per cent to 99.5 at Ramjas College, said Tanveer Ejaz, associate professor of political science at the college. The percentage has been done.Eight colleges have asked for the correct marks.
Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) College has reduced by 1.5 percent for BSc (Hons) Computer Science for which it had asked for the correct marks in the first list.
The cut-off for the course is now pegged at 98.5 per cent, but it is closed for admissions for SC, ST, PWD and EWS categories.
“We analyzed the data and found that those who scored 100 percentile took admission in Hansraj (which also had a 100 percent cut-off). We are expecting that the students who scored between 98.5 percent and 100 percentile St. will apply for the 24 seats on offer and they will be filled,” said DDU principal Hem Chand Jain.
He said that they had kept the cut-off at 100 per cent as a precautionary measure as the course demands and the college has improved its NIRF ranking from 15 to 13 this year.
DDU was above Hansraj in NIRF ranking of colleges.
Other colleges that set the cut-off for the course at 100 percent were Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS) and Hansraj College, the former of which also had a vacancy for the course.
SSCBS has also demanded 98.5 percent for admission in the course, while Hansraj has closed the admission in the course.
Rama Sharma, principal of Hansraj College said, “There are 32 admissions against 23 seats for the course in our college. There is a chance that some students may withdraw admission after getting their engineering exam results.”
Hindu College, which had pegged the 100 percentile cut-off for BA (Hons) Political Science, has closed admissions to courses in the second list.
According to Manish Kansal, the coordinator of admissions in the college, they have admitted almost six times more students against the 20 seats in the unreserved category.
Shri Ram College of Commerce, which had set the cut-off for BA (Hons) Economics and BCom (Hons) at 100 per cent, has dropped 99.75 per cent and 99.12 per cent respectively in the second list.
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College also did not find any correct scorer for B.Com program in the first list and has brought down the cut-off to 98.75 per cent.
The College of Jesus and Mary had set the cut-off for BA (Hons) Psychology at 100 percent for those who do not include the subject when calculating their best-of-four percentile. The cut-off for students who had to include this subject in their Best of Four Subjects (BFS) was 99 percentile. The college has not released the second list for the course which means the seats are filled under the first list.
Principals of colleges that kept the cut-off at 100 percent in the first list had said that the correct score was a precautionary measure to avoid over-admission.
This is probably the first time in the history of DU that eight colleges had demanded correct marks for admission. Last year only Lady Shri Ram College had kept the cut-off at 100 per cent for three courses – BA (Hons) Political Science, BA (Hons) Psychology and BA (Hons) Economics.
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