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| Too many toppers but too few seats |
| Twins Ela and Era at Lady Shreeram have done much better than Sanchit.
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| INDIA
, 5-July-2007
3:6:20 AM |
| As the cut offs rise alarmingly for popular courses like B Com honours and Economics honours students with 90 per cent marks are holding on to seats in second class colleges.
Except in Delhi, the deficit of seats is far higher, thousands of students from around the country go to Delhi every year to pursue their dream and even at the top of the merit list there is a huge crowd.
Sanchit Gupta has scored 89 per cent in the Board exams and he has spent his whole day waiting at Hindu College in the hope that his name might appear in the third list.
Twins Ela and Era at Lady Shreeram have done much better than Sanchit.
Era with 93.75 percent has got admission in the course of her choice. But Ela's 90 per cent does not seem to be good enough.
For Abhishek, with 89 per cent, he thought it would be a cakewalk to get economics.
''It's really unfair. I have applied in the top four colleges, but I am missing out by 2 per cent everywhere. I have now settled for statistics honours,'' Abhishek said.
From an 87 per cent cut-off in popular courses in top colleges in 1990 now it has gone up to well over 95 per cent.
Number of students has also dramatically increased. There are now one lakh applicants for a mere 35,000 seats in Delhi University colleges.
A warped demand-supply situation has created its own complexities.
Topper students as usual waiting to finalise courses in a college of their choices till the last minute.
But fearing vacancies at the later stage big colleges like Hindu are forced to admit extra students.
''In our experience, only one-third of the students remain. Others tend to leave,'' said Dr P Kumar, a reader with the department of physics.
Student Kritika made it to the first list of Hindu College in Sociology. But neither the college nor the course is of her choice.
''I have charted my whole life around psychology. And I did not make it to the first cut-off list in LSR,'' Kirtika said.
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