Last day of online admissions today

Updated on: Friday, July 08, 2011

Today is the last day for submitting online admission forms. This also marks the last day of offline admissions under various quotas at colleges. Heads of institutions will also have to surrender vacant seats under these quotas by 11:00 am on Friday. “The process has been smooth till now and we are ensuring that students face no problem this time round. Most students have finished filling their forms by now,” said an official from the office of the deputy director of education. Guidance centres have been seeing a steady flow of students, most of them with last moment jitters and doubts about the online system.

While students from various boards have finished filling their forms, some students from the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) board are still worried. “Some are yet to receive their marksheets, because of which they are worried that their forms might be rejected. Several students have reported this problem,” said Fr Francis Swamy, principal of Holy Family School in Andheri (East), which is also a centre for NIOS examinations. Fr Swamy added that he contacted the NIOS authorities to check this issue. “I’ve been told that the marksheets have been dispatched; the students should get it soon,” he added.

Meanwhile, minority institutions are confirming the last batch of applications for offline admissions and in some cases colleges have no seats from the minority categories left to surrender for the online admission process this year. “We didn’t even have to announce a third list as all our seats under the minority quota were filled. Some students were left disheartened as the cut-offs for all the three streams were high this time,” said Marie Fernandes, principal of St Andrew’s College in Bandra (West). College heads predict high cut-offs continuing even in the online merit list this year. “Our science cut-off for the minority quota didn’t come lower than 85%, so we are sure that general merit lists will see a prominent rise in cut-offs as compared to last year,” said Kirti Narain, principal of Jai Hind College in Churchgate.

However, principals are equally certain that many students who have reserved seats under the minority quota will withdraw admissions once the online merit lists are out. “Once students get seats in a more popular college, they withdraw their applications. Several students apply for these vacant seats offline,” said a college principal.

Last day of online admissions today

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