Sky-high cut offs at Delhi University have not made the DU aspirants to shy away from their dream colleges; instead the cut offs have drawn a large number of aspirants to Colleges. Some of the prominent colleges of DU have witnessed a huge rush and long queues after declaring their first cut off list. SRCC that has 123 on offer for Economics (Honours) course has already given admission to 129 students during the first two days, out of which 102 were on the first day itself. The cut off for the course was from 97.5% to 98.25%.
Other Colleges such Ramjas, Hindu, LSR also saw good response from the students. Seats in the English, History and Zoology courses were full at the Ramjas College. In all 670 of 1300 seats were filled. Psychology course at LSR met a good response despite a high cut off of 97.25% while Hindu College admitted candidates mostly in History and Political Science course.
The trend was same for the off-campus colleges too. Kamala Nehru College (KNC) gave admission to 80 students in the English (Honours) course and 45 in the Psychology course.
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The cut offs were expected to be high because the number of students in the “Elite 95” club increased to 8,971 in 2014 from 5,996 last year. The DU has scrapped its controversial FYUP this year which eventually has paved the way for return of the popular courses like BA (Program), B.Com (Program) and B.Sc (Program).
The number of students seeking admission is expected to be high since there is still one day to go before the admissions close for the first cut off list. The Colleges will come out with the second cut off list on Friday, 4th July 2014.