Delhi University's Initial Cut-offs Touch 100% In Three Colleges

Admission cut-offs for Delhi University's undergraduate courses soared high as colleges released the first list. For BSc computer science, the cut-off was 100% in at least three colleges — Acharya Narendra Dev (95-100), Atma Ram Sanatan Dharm (98-100) and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (97-100).

The high cut-offs are attributed to long uncertainty over the number of applicants due the abrupt scrapping of the four-year-undergraduate programme.

Except courses like Sanskrit, Hindi or Anthropology, cut-offs for popular courses were above 93% aggregate in best of four. The cut-off for computer science course at Acharya Narendra Dev College stood at 100% aggregate this year too.

The cut-offs released by the colleges also contain some additional criteria and aspirants need to carefully analyse them. Just making the cut-off may not be enough for getting admission.

Off-campus colleges played it safe as they may not see much action during the first round of admissions. For example, Zakir Husain College increased its cut-off from 70% in 2012 to 90% this year for English while Ram Lal Anand (evening) lifted the bar for its BA programme by 20 percentage points at 85%.

"We are aware that these are pretty high cut-offs. But colleges have to be careful because there has been no registration for programme courses and there is reduction in the seats for honours courses (as compared to FYUP). Once students come for registration and we have more data, we can work on more realistic cut-offs. We have the liberty as there will be seven more lists to fall back on," said the principal of a south campus college.