Over 11,000 students secure admission in first-cut off

New Delhi: More than 11,000 students took admission and finished payment of fees for various undergraduate courses in different colleges of Delhi University on Thursday, the third day since the first cut-off list was released.

Many successful students and parents heaved a sigh of relief, after they managed to finally complete all necessary formalities. Two days ago, many of these applicants were facing several difficulties during the admission process.

According to an official of the University, Hindu College has reported the highest number of admissions so far, with 742 students. This was followed by Gargi College with 629 admissions.

Miranda House in North Campus came third with 628 admissions, while Lady Shri Ram College received 567 admissions.

The official also said that BCom (Hons) is the course with most admissions with 1,313 students so far. The second course with most admissions was BA (Programme) with 1,213 students, followed by BA Political Science (Hons) with 940.

Meanwhile, University officials said that the servers never crashed and were only going through some lags, which slowed down the process.

"The server was functioning smoothly and students did not come to us with complaints about it or that colleges were not accepting marksheets," an official claimed, adding that after the first day of technical glitches, officials worked overtime to ensure that day three of the admission process was without glitches.

The varsity has now dedicated two additional servers and claimed that their servers were not even utilised to their maximum potential. "We have just used around 20 per cent of our server capacity. Our main aim is to make sure that they do not crash," the official added.

For Saturday, officials are preparing to deal with an influx of outstation aspirants as well as those students who could not secure admission so far.

After many outstation candidates could not get admission due to issues such as lack of requisite documents and payment problems, many have been camping in hotels. The varsity has roped in extra volunteers at many prominent colleges to avert a 'management disaster'.

Saket, an applicant at a South Campus college, said, "They could have planned this better. The volunteers stationed outside colleges helpful in clearing doubts, but we had to run around cyber cafes for last minute documents."

Last year, the total number of admissions in three days after the announcement of first cut-off was nearly 2,000, one-fifth of the numbers of admissions that have finalised by the end of the third and last day against the first cut-off list this academic year.