University of Delhi has announced first cut-off list on Wednesday, late evening after which it has come under the radar of criticism by many for keeping cut-offs 100% and even more.
The impact of sky-high cut-offs was seen on the first day of admission as the admissions remained low in many colleges. Some colleges had less than 40 admissions on the first day.
After receiving record 3.2 lakh applications this year, high cut-off was expected but unlike every year, even off-campus colleges kept their cut-off high, leading to disappointment among many aspirants.
“I was hoping to get Hindu college, but the cut-offs are very high. I hope I get there when the second list comes,” said Prakhar, a Political Science aspirant.
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However, after realizing the gap between upper and lower limit of cut-offs, the varsity has directed many colleges to revise their cut-offs and put it on their website.
Calculation of ‘best of four subjects’ and the new disadvantage clause created confusion among students, as they were particularly clueless about subjects to be included.
“Many parents came to me asking to calculate ‘best four’ for them as they didn’t have clear idea about what subjects to include and what could lead to disadvantage of 2.5 %,” said Shubhangana, help desk member at Kalindi College, Delhi University.
This year, Delhi University has removed stream-wise cut-off but added disadvantage clause. According to this clause anyone who is seeking admission in a particular course, but has not studied it in Class 12 will have a disadvantage of 2.5 percent.
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Ishita Grover, a B.Com honours aspirant at Ramjas College, said, “The cut-offs aren’t just disappointing, they are rather absurd. Do they expect us to make these calculations right before we sit for board exams?”
Many students remained particularly confused between college and course. “I have 92% marks, I am getting Political Science (H) in Maitreyi College, but I want to pursue English (H), but I am getting it in good colleges. I am confused what to do,” said Nishtha Dholakia, who initially wanted to pursue Journalism, but not getting anywhere in the first list.
“It is just the first day of admissions, it is normal for students to have more queries. Moreover, we are expecting more admissions from the second day onwards,” said a university official.
Earlier, St. Stephen’s on being criticised for high cut-offs, blamed CBSE for liberal marking that leads to high cut-offs every year. According to data released by Delhi University, around 35,000 students are the ones with more than 90% marks.