Aspirants dejected after Delhi University announces 100% cut-off

Delhi University announced its first cut-off list for undergraduate admissions on Friday. Top colleges like Hindu College logged in the cut-off at 100 for various courses. Bhavika has 95.5% in her best of four and wants to pursue BA (Honours) in Economics from either Lady Shri Ram College or Shri Ram College of Commerce.

“Seeing the cut-offs, DU looks like a distant dream at the moment. I have applied under the ECA quota, for which the admissions will happen after seats under the various cut-offs are filled. There is a lot of time to go for that. As a backup plan, I have taken admission in Symbiosis Law School, Pune but DU is my first preference,” she told PTI.

Her friend Ishita Mehra has taken admission in SD College, with a score of 93.6% in best of four. 

“They should have held the central universities common entrance test for aspirants. I didn’t get enough marks and had there been exams, I am sure I would have scored 96 per cent or 97 per cent. I want to get into BCom(Honours) in a good North Campus college. I will wait for the remaining cut-offs but I won’t settle for a lesser college in DU,” she said.

Roshni Zahoor has 94.75% and aspired to pursue BA(Honours) History at one of the top North Campus colleges.

“The cut-offs are quite high and I won’t be able to make it in the first list in the campus colleges. However, I am meeting the cut-offs in Deshbandhu College and Aryabhatta College. I will take admission in Deshbandhu College and then migrate to the college I want if I manage to meet the scores in any of the subsequent lists,” Zahoor said.

The Delhi University Teachers’ Association treasurer Abha Dev Habib urged students to wait for the second cut-off list and not lose heart. 

Dr Babli Moitra Saraf, the principal of Indraprastha College For Women, said “The first and the second cut-offs are higher because colleges do not want to run the risk of excessive admissions. The rule is that everyone within the cut-off has to be accommodated irrespective of the number of seats,” she said.