FYJC: Colleges announce final cut-offs for offline admissions
Arita Sarkar and Vikrant Dadawala
Marking an end to the junior college (FYJC) admission process, the final cut-off percentages for offline admissions were declared on Wednesday. While some popular colleges saw a dip in the cut-offs, others saw an increase in the required percentages. The offline process is supposed to fill the 74,000 seats that were vacant after three rounds of online admissions.
While the commerce stream of KC College saw amarginal increase in the cut-off from 88 per cent in the third merit list to 88.65 per cent in the offline list, the arts stream saw a dramatic rise in cutoffs from 76 per cent to 85.8 per cent.
Mithibai College saw a drop in the science cutoff from 82.8 per cent to 79 per cent and from 87.6 per cent to 85.5 per cent in the commerce stream but there was an increase in the arts cut-off from 75.6 per cent to 79.6 per cent.
Unfortunately for applicants, however, most popular city colleges had very few seats available. Jhunjhunwala College saw a decline in the required cut-off (of 3.6 percentage points in science and 5.2 percentage points in commerce) but the number of applicants far exceeded the number of seats available. The college had one to two seats in arts, five to six in commerce and 10 in science, open for offline admissions.
“We have received more than 200 applications. These are students who have good marks but who are indecisive and are not well informed about their choices. We will be admitting more students in case there are cancellations but by the end of this month they will have to decide one way or the other,” said Usha Mukundan, principal of the college.
Jyoti Thakur, vice principal of Jai Hind College said, “We had about 11 seats in commerce, 12 to 13 in arts and about 48 in science - all of which have been filled. We had fewer seats left in comparison to the figures from last year. We have given out confirmation slips to them.”
NB Chavan, deputy director of education, said, “Offline admissions should be completed by Wednesday. If there are still vacant seats, the colleges can have another round of admissions. But they must surrender seats by 5 pm on July 24.”
Marking an end to the junior college (FYJC) admission process, the final cut-off percentages for offline admissions were declared on Wednesday. While some popular colleges saw a dip in the cut-offs, others saw an increase in the required percentages. The offline process is supposed to fill the 74,000 seats that were vacant after three rounds of online admissions.
While the commerce stream of KC College saw amarginal increase in the cut-off from 88 per cent in the third merit list to 88.65 per cent in the offline list, the arts stream saw a dramatic rise in cutoffs from 76 per cent to 85.8 per cent.
The science cut-off at Jai Hind College increased by 1.4 percentage points to reach 84 per cent, while the required percentages for arts and commerce remained as they were.
Mithibai College saw a drop in the science cutoff from 82.8 per cent to 79 per cent and from 87.6 per cent to 85.5 per cent in the commerce stream but there was an increase in the arts cut-off from 75.6 per cent to 79.6 per cent.
Unfortunately for applicants, however, most popular city colleges had very few seats available. Jhunjhunwala College saw a decline in the required cut-off (of 3.6 percentage points in science and 5.2 percentage points in commerce) but the number of applicants far exceeded the number of seats available. The college had one to two seats in arts, five to six in commerce and 10 in science, open for offline admissions.
“We have received more than 200 applications. These are students who have good marks but who are indecisive and are not well informed about their choices. We will be admitting more students in case there are cancellations but by the end of this month they will have to decide one way or the other,” said Usha Mukundan, principal of the college.
Jyoti Thakur, vice principal of Jai Hind College said, “We had about 11 seats in commerce, 12 to 13 in arts and about 48 in science - all of which have been filled. We had fewer seats left in comparison to the figures from last year. We have given out confirmation slips to them.”
NB Chavan, deputy director of education, said, “Offline admissions should be completed by Wednesday. If there are still vacant seats, the colleges can have another round of admissions. But they must surrender seats by 5 pm on July 24.”
