Most prominent colleges see a dip of 2-6% across streams as compared to last year
After a long delay and amidst confusion, admissions for first year junior colleges (FYJC) started from Tuesday morning. The first merit list which was supposed to be out at 5 pm on Monday was only uploaded at 1 am leaving thousands of aspirants waiting.
Colleges got the lists post 11 pm on Tuesday but were asked to start the admission process by verifying the messages and allotment slips of students. Most prominent colleges saw a dip of 2-6 per cent across streams as compared to that of last year. Principals said that the dip can be a result of multiple factors like increase in the number of seats, popularity of smaller junior colleges offering integrated programmes and a number of high scorers taking up seats from various quotas.
Rajpal Hande, principal of Mithibai college said that the drop in cut-offs can be attributed to vacant seats from the minority quota being available for other students. "We have got a large number of top scorers including 99 and 100 percenters this year. Most top scorers secured their admission on the first day itself," added Hande. The college closed its first list at 85.17, 87.6 and 83.8 for Science, Commerce and Arts respectively.
Ramnivas Ruia college in Matunga closed its first list for the Science stream at 92.80 per cent, a drop of 0.4 per cent from 2016. The list for arts closed at 90.60 per cent this year. Some of the prominent commerce colleges closed their first list above 90 per cent. While NM College in Vile Parle and RA Podar college in Matunga recorded a 91.8 per cent cut off, HR college in Churchgate closed its first list at 91.4 per cent. St Xaviers college closed its list for Arts at 94 per cent, 0.4% lower than that of 2016.
New admission rules confuse parents, aspirants
With the change in admission rules, several parents and students were confused. "My daughter has been allotted the fifth preference college. While we want to try for the first three preferences, not securing admission in the allotted college might lead to losing the seat if lower preference colleges are allotted in the next round," said Anamika Sawant, a parent.
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