College keeps cut off at 97 per cent to avoid students leaving for better colleges after second cut off
College keeps cut off at 97 per cent to avoid students leaving for better colleges after second cut off
Even with Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)'s impossibly high cut off of 100 per cent, which has made it very difficult for a lot of aspirants to get through, Kirori Mal College (KMC), surprisingly did not admit a single student on the first day of admissions in its popular B. Com. Honours and programme courses.
Kirori Mal College principal Bhim Sen Singh says he has
deliberately kept high cut offs Pic/Subhash Barolia
KMC tried to go one step ahead of SRCC -- the top commerce college -- by keeping its cut off for B Com Honours at 97 per cent, while SRCC has kept it at 96 per cent. Bhim Sen Singh, principal, KMC said: "We have deliberately kept the cut off high as we don't want to fill up our seats now. Because when SRCC will lower the percentage in the second cut off, students generally prefer to take transfer to SRCC.
I don'tu00a0 want to go under the pressure." "I don't want to fill in my B Com seats till the first two cut offs, I will prefer students coming in last three cut offs," added Singh. Apparently, this is the first time when no students have taken admission in B. Com. Hons. course. Teachers too feel that this is surprising as B. Com. Hons. had always been the first preference for all commerce students.
Matter of choice
"Given a choice between SRCC and KMC, no student will prefer to go to KMC. Probably, KMC people have hardly coordinated with other colleges. You cannot work in isolation and you have to admit that there are hierarchies of preferences," said Poonam Sethi, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Hindu College. Eighty eight students took admission in Hindu in B. Com. Hons. on the first day.
"KMC cut off is unrealistic and they should realise this. When SRCC is keeping its cut off at 96 per cent then how can you keep it higher? This is absolutely imaginative; B. Com. Hons. is a hot course these days. This shows that something is wrong there," said SS Sareen, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College. The college has given admission to 266 students in B Com Honours on Thursday.
Girls outnumbered boys in both the courses in SRCC and Hindu. Meanwhile, SRCC sold 612 forms on the first day of admissions. Out of 252 seats sanctioned for B. Com. Hons, the college gave admission to 237 students. Out of them, 150 are girls and 87 are boys. Similarly in BA Hons in Economics, 62 seats have be filled on the first day, 39 are girls and 12 boys. In Hindu, 205 students were given admissions, out of which 146 are girls and 59 are boys.
Miranda College sold 650 forms, giving admission to 415 students against 986. Apart from this, the college has given admission to 300 students, in which the seats are almost filled in BA Programme, Physics and Chemistry Honours.
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