At SRCC, only 25 seats left in BCom (hons)

Updated on: Friday, June 17, 2011

The high cutoffs at Shri Ram College of Commerce may have drawn flak from many quarters, but at the end of the first day of admissions it really meant nothing. Over 90 % of the general seats available in SRCC have already been taken.

The college expects to fill rest of the seats in the three days still left for admission under the first list. Its not hard to guess then that chances of a second list in SRCC look rather slim.

General category aspirants needed at least 96% (non-commerce students needed 100%) to get a seat in BCom (honours ) and 95.25% for admission in BA (honours ) economics.

There was no dearth of candidates who had scored much more than the cutoffs. On Day 1, SRCC admitted 288 students against 314 seats in the general category. Of these,189 were girls. In all, the college confirmed admissions of 325 candidates (including general, OBC, SC /ST and differently-abled ) on Thursday while the total number of seats is 624.

There are just 25 seats left in BCom (honours ) and 11 seats in economics (honours ) in the general category. We still have three more days to go.We sold 612 (for general and OBC) admission forms on Thursday. While some paid the fees and secured admission, most others will come back in a day or two. And we hardly see any withdrawals later, said principal P C Jain. He further said, Looking at the response of the candidates, who can say that our cutoffs were unreasonable or irrelevant We arrive at cutoffs through our same time-tested way. Its the performance of students that has changed.

While most other colleges on the campus had called it a day, SRCC was admitting students till 6.30 in the evening. Though there was a flood of aspirants, nobody really complained about chaos or any glitches. Mansi, who got admission in BCom (honours ) with a score of 96.25%,said,We were in the college at 8.30 am and I was through with my admission in three hours.Though the process took a bit too long, I am very happy to have finally made it to SRCC.

Barely a kilometer away in Kirori Mal College, there was no admission in BCom (honours ) .The room allotted for admissions to this course was shut even as the process for other courses went on in nearby rooms. At 97 % cutoff for BCom (honours ), the college found no takers. And that is precisely what the college wanted. We had no clue about the number of candidates who would come for admission this time. So as a precaution,we kept the cutoff really high. We will lower it in the second list, said principal Bhim Sen Singh.

Times of India

At SRCC, only 25 seats left in BCom (hons)

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