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FYJC admissions: Cut-offs rise with every round, only 11,000 seats remain for almost 40k students
While many students are hoping to find a better college allocation, the cut-offs in top colleges seem to have either increased or stayed stagnant.
With 5,801 students confirming their admissions in round three of the centralised admission process to the first year junior college, almost 40,000 students are now vying for only 11,000 seats across the city in the fourth round of the admission process. The third round concluded on August 2.
While many students are hoping to find a better college allocation, the cut-offs in top colleges seem to have either increased or stayed stagnant. For instance, at Sir Parashurambhau College, the cut-off for Science (unaided) was 453 in the second round, and continues to be so in round three, but for Arts (Marathi) it has increased from 282 in round two, to 420 in round three.
A similar trend was seen in all the other streams available in the college and other top colleges of the city. Fergusson College as well, had an overall increase in the cut-offs instead of a fall with the progressing admission procedure.
While seats for Arts (English) has been completely filled, for Arts (Marathi) the cut-off has jumped from 365 to 457 in round three, and in Science (aided), it has leaped from 479 to 488.
According to Teresa David, principal of Lakshmanrao Apte Prashala, the rising trend reflects the incidence of more high scoring students delaying admission confirmation to obtain seats in their desired colleges, thus posing a threat to low scoring students.
“The idea that cut-offs will fall with the progressing rounds is a bygone concept, especially as more and more high-scoring students are choosing to wait out the process in hopes of getting their desired colleges. This is going to make it difficult for low-scorers who had been dodging admission confirmation in hopes to making the cut to top colleges in the later rounds.”
The college’s Science (unaided) stream cut-off has increased from 463 to 470, and 481 to 485 for aided Science, and remained stagnant at 419 for the Commerce stream.
The process of admission delay is being repeatedly practised by students for the past few years, whereby only one-third of allotted students are confirming admissions, stated the data provided by the education department. Till now, out of 75,961 who had applied for admissions in thee FYJC process, only 36,924 students have confirmed admissions so far, leaving 39,037 students still without a college admission. The latest round had 17,152 seat allotments, out of which only 5,801 students confirmed admissions, leaving 11,351 seats available for the next round of admissions.
