Colleges gear up for student rush
With the third and final stage of the online admission process ending on Friday, college principals are gearing up to face the onslaught of students seeking admission to their college in the offline phase.
The deputy directors office has given colleges a free hand in allotting seats to students in the offline phase. Due to this, principals say that students, who haven’t confirmed their seats yet, will make a beeline to apply to the colleges of their choice.
Throwing light on the situation, Dinesh Punjwani, principal RD National College said, “Students are hell bent on getting admission to colleges, which have a cut-off higher than the percentage they have got. However, as the online admission system adheres to the cut-off percentages, such students are not allotted seats in the college of their choice. Hence, they prefer to opt for admission in the offline phase,” Mr Punjwani said.
In fact, the confirmed admission of only 1.3 lakh students out of the 1.92 lakh, who registered for the online admission process, goes to show that many students have not taken admission as per the seats allotted through the online admission process. “There is one more day…We can only ascertain how many students have not taken admission in any college by Thursday evening,” said an official from the deputy director’s office.
Dr T Shiware, principal Hinduja College and member of the online admission review committee admitted that the problem would persist as long as the software was not tweaked to accommodate students in the college of their first choice. “We will be working on streamlining the software next year,” Dr Shiware said.
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