Delhi University colleges cautious on cutoffs

NEW DELHI: Colleges will be extra careful while deciding cutoffs this June, particularly with arts courses. Colleges, especially where cutoffs were between 80% to 90% till last year, may see a rise in cutoffs beyond the standard year-onyear increase due to changes in admission policy. Delhi University's changed stance on vocational courses and additional eligibility criteria has expanded the pool of eligible candidates considerably.

Not only will colleges that launched courses last year and ended up admitting way beyond their capacity be "very cautious" while setting cutoffs , even the rest will tread carefully. "Since applicants have been allowed to select colleges, this year we will know how many are interested in joining," says Shashi Tyagi, principal, Gargi College , "We will be very cautious . We don't want to overadmit this time." Gargi had massive over-admission in economics—which it launched last year; the first cutoff for it was 93% but "it will definitely be higher this time."

In fact, Tyagi and several other principals foresee an increase across the board. Colleges can't individually decide on a cutoff range (for applicants from different streams) any more, points out Tyagi, as the additional criteria will be centrally decided and uniform across DU and, most importantly, even candidates with more than one vocational subject in their bestof-fourwill be eligible.

"I'm very happy that vocational subjects are being allowed," says Kuldeep Ahuja, member of the admissions committee at College of Vocational Studies, "But the cutoffs will definitely be higher because of this. The number of applicants will be much more." The cutoff for English-—launched last year—will not be 80% either. "We had to make 200 admissions against 70 seats," says Ahuja laughing , "That was the first year for English and we had no databank . We burnt our fingers. This year we'll be much more careful."

Pradyumn Kumar, principal, Hindu College, too feels the policy on vocational subjects will lead to a "marginal increase" but in "some courses." "Vocational subjects are generally scoring. Even if 10% is taken off per subject, the best-of-four aggregate will still be quite high," explains Tyagi. This will not impact subjects like commerce or economics . Cut-offs for them are already inching toward 100%; plus, the docking of marks in vocational subjects will put these beyond the reach of such applicants anyway. "It will impact the cutoffs for political science, history and psychology," says Tyagi.

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