Forget online chaos,almost 58,000 seats available offline

Last year,5,191 students were not allotted seats even after five rounds of online admissions and had to apply to individual colleges through the offline process. “This time,the process was less chaotic but students did get confused. Many students could not make up their mind on the order of preference for colleges. However,the number of students who missed out in the online process has dropped compared with last year,” said a principal of a South Mumbai college.

Officials at admission guidance centres and college principals said students failed to understand the online process and this led to a large number of them making mistakes in application forms. “Students missed out or could not manage to secure a seat as their cut-offs did not match up to the cut-offs of colleges they had listed in their form. They also did not apply for colleges where the seats are vacant now. We will now release a list of colleges with vacant seats at all admission guidance centres and also send it to education officers of all zones,” said Chavan.

A total of 34,046 aspirants were allotted seats in the third or final merit list. Around 21,920 students got seats under the betterment option in this round and 6,821 got a seat in a college that was their first preference. Students whose names have appeared in the third merit list have time till Thursday evening to confirm their seats in respective junior colleges.