Students can walk into any college under DUs four year programme if they meet cutoff criterion

Updated on: Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme will let aspirants walk into any college as long as they meet the cutoff criterion. Instead of choosing colleges during the pre-admission registration process, the candidates will now have to just fill the marks and indicate choice of courses.

Calling the choice of college system "redundant", vice chancellor Dinesh Singh has said the new system would help aspirants as they would not be left out of option like earlier. "Our aim is to simplify the procedure. As per the new scheme, every student gets to study an honours course. So the students this year will mark the choice of their honours courses (Discipline 1) during registration. Choice of college is redundant here. After the cutoffs are declared, students can approach the colleges where they are within the ambit of eligibility," said Singh.

Under the old system, students ran the risk of being left without a college if they didn't meet the cutoff eligibility in the colleges of their choice.

During the 2011-12 admissions, both the registration process and the choice of colleges were done away with, leading to a high first cutoff and low admissions
in the first list. The subsequent chaos had prompted DU to revert to the centralized registration method in the 2012-13 admissions.

But Singh is confident that the colleges can come up with a cutoff list that can lead to completion of the admission process for the general category students in three-four lists. "Two years ago we had no idea about the number of students and their marks. But now we will have the marks and the choice of course and colleges, if they want, can work out a methodology to come out with a far more realistic cutoff. In fact, several colleges have been completing their admission process by the end of the second list year on year in majority of their courses," he said.

"This is a new system and students need to be patient. DU being a central university, students come from across the country. The flexibility of registering both online and offline as well as choosing the college following the cutoff list is an advantage to these students," said career counsellor Zubin Malhotra.

Students can walk into any college under DUs four year programme if they meet cutoff criterion

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