73% seats in DU colleges full, 4th cutoff on July 13

THE FOURTH CUTOFF IS NOT LIKELY TO DROP BY MORE THAN ONE OR TWO PERCENTAGE POINTS FOR POPULAR COURSES

third cutoff list drew to a close at the Delhi University on Monday.

The fourth cutoff list is to be released on Thursday, however, the qualifying percentage requirement is not expected to drop by more than one or two percentage points for most popular courses at sought after colleges. DU has around 56,000 seats at its 60-odd constituent colleges.

“Admission to almost 41,000 seats have been approved. Of these, around 37,000 students have paid their fees,” said a DU official, who works with the admissions committee. Students, whose admissions have been approved, have until noon on Tuesday to pay their admission fees online.

However, seats for popular course choices may still be available under the fourth list in many colleges. While colleges like Kamala Nehru College are likely to close admissions to most popular courses and others like Ramjas College claimed that they are yet to collate data on the availability of seats, some institutes still have few seats left in sought after courses like BCom (Hons), BA Programme, English (Hons), and History (Hons), among others.

Miranda House has filled over 90% of their seats by the end of the third cycle of admissions. Though they still have a few seats left for courses like English (Hons) and BA Programme, the percentage point requirement is not expected to drop significantly in the fourth list, with most courses seeing no more than a 0.2% point drop.

“The cutoff for English (Hons) will either remain the same or be reduced by one mark,” said Pratibha Jolly, principal, Miranda House. Though History is expected to be closed at Miranda, few seats are still available at LSR. LSR had closed admissions to History (Hons) under the third list, alongwith 17 other colleges such as Gargi and Hindu, but seats are now available because of withdrawals.

LSR also has seats for honours programmes in Psychology, English, Journalism, and Philosophy. Sri Venkateswara College will probably have a fourth list for most of its courses, other than honours in English, Chemistry and Sanskrit.