Admission through ECA to be tougher

Increased number of applicants and new guidelines make competition tough 

Despite changes in sports/ECA policy, students’ struggle for admission remains the same. After DU’s decision to give equal weight-age to both trial and certificates, which gave little relief to the students, new guidelines were announced by the University. 

As per the new guidelines, colleges must not give more than 15% concession to ECA candidates in the last cut-off for specific courses. Earlier, anyone with 60% could get admission into a well-reckoned college through good performance in trials and relevant certificates. DU officials believe that this practice will preclude backdoor entries in colleges across the university.  

DU authorities also announced that all colleges must organize ECA trials at two levels, preliminary and final level. Also, the ECA admission committee of every college will have two experts to judge the students.

Furthermore, the past allegations on the selection process have urged DU admission committee to keep the entire trial process transparent with one external evaluator in every college. 

With colleges like Hindu, Hansraj, Miranda House and Kirori Mal receiving more than 1,000 applicants, it is clear that admission through ECA category is not going to be easy. 

The ECA trials will start from June 29, 2012 in many colleges. With 15%-20% increase in the number of applicants this year, the rush at colleges will be at its peak at the time of trials. Hence, students are advised to keep their cool in this scorching heat and prioritize the colleges as per their preferences so that their time is judiciously utilized.    

Paridhi Bhola
Media Officer
Education Nest

No Relief in Cut Offs This Year Too

Year after year, the number of students scoring exceptionally high in class 12th CBSE is rising and so are the cut offs of Delhi University. With scorching number of students who have scored above 90%, the number of applications has gone high as well. 

“Such high percentage in every stream makes it clear that the cut-offs are not going to drop this year”, said Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, Deputy Dean, Students Welfare. On being asked about the last year’s national hubbub on 100% cut-offs for BCom, P.C. Jain, Principal, SRCC said that the cut off will not reach that extent. However, cut-offs for the new academic session will remain high as the class 12th results have been excellent this year too. 

All the colleges across the university are certain that the first cut off will increase by almost 0.5%, but gradually, the percentage will fall with the next four lists. “I got 96 % marks in class 12th and I have applied for Eco(H), BCom(H) and Math(H) in Hindu College, Hans Raj College, Kirori Mal College and SRCC. I am curious to see the 1st cut-off list and will prefer to take admission in SRCC or Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies,” said Megha Bhola, an aspirant from Salwan Public school. 

“As there are numerous professional courses to opt for, students must not panic and wait till the 26th of June for the release of 1st cut-off,” guides Tuteja. So far, over 1.46 lakh applications have been received by Delhi University for a total of 54,000 undergraduate seats. This makes it apparent that students will witness higher cut-offs especially in the popular colleges of DU.

Students can take admission between June 26th and 28th after the 1st cut off is out. The aspirants are advised to carry all the original documents along with their photocopies at the time of admission. If a student wishes to withdraw his/her  admission to a particular college after the release of next cut-offs, they can do so, in which case the certificates will be immediately returned to them.  The students can then seek admission in any other college of their choice and preference.

Paridhi Bhola
Media Officer
Education Nest