Many seats remain vacant

The first day of admissions under the second cutoff list saw a larger turnout among students. However, the seats are nowhere close to full in many of the popular colleges.

At Miranda House, principal Pratibha Jolly said that by the end of Saturday, they had filled about half the seats out of the 1,000 available at the allwomen’s college.

“It was a brisk day (on the first day of admissions after the second list). We must have reached the halfway mark, as close to 500 seats are now filled,” she said.

The admission under second list will end on July 4 and the third cutoff list will be out on July 7.

At Ramjas College about 1,000 seats out of the 1,500 seats have been filled. “On Saturday alone we have had about 250 to 300 students take admission, and almost 600 to 700 students had already taken seats under the first cutoff list,” said PC Tulsian, principal of Ramjas College.

The momentum is much lower at SGTB Khalsa College where many departments have registered very few admissions.

“We are expecting a third cutoff list here; maybe even a fourth, if the seats are still vacant,” said PS Jassal, the vice principal.

SGTB had set some of the highest cutoffs for undergraduate programmes during the first cutoff list, with 99.66 for BSc Electronics topping the charts. However, there haven’t been many takers for the course.

Some colleges also had admission cancellation, a usual trend after second cutoff. At Kirori Mal College, close to 500 admissions have been done against 1,179 seats. “We had about 50 cancellations today. This happens in second and third cutoff that students cancel admission and go to other colleges,” said Dinesh Khattar, officiating principal.

Entrance tests for Delhi University’s nine undergraduate programmes are scheduled to begin on Sunday, however, some applicants are still facing difficulties with the procedure.

While for some the application fee payment doesn’t reflect in the portal, others have not been able to view or download their admit cards.

DU admits students to nine of its undergraduate programmes based on entrance exams. However, applicants were seen at the undergraduate admissions help desk and at the grievance cell on Saturday, complaining that they have been facing difficulties with the procedures.

“One major thing is that ‘complete’ information is not available anywhere. I had applied to BA (hons) in Music programme, but on the entrance based undergraduate admissions portal of the DU, there is no date listed for the Music programmes entrance tests,” said Ankit Arora.

Students need to visit the Music department’s website to view the schedule of entrance exams. DU holds a practical admission test at the Department of Music for BA (Hons) Music applicants, and these are to be held on July 4 and 5.

Arora also added that he has not been able to view or download his admit card.

The university’s grievance cell had taken note of the issues. “All issues related to admit cards have been resolved,” said Ashutosh Bhardwaj, OSD admissions at DU.