FYJC: List out after final round, admission process completed

Parents and students at the CAP centre in Abasaheb Garware College on Friday.

The results of the final round of FYJC admissions for this academic year were announced on Friday by members of the Centralised Admission Committee (CAP), bringing this year’s admission process to an end. Of the 72,105 seats that were available across 218 colleges, a total of 66402 admissions were allotted. However, due to thousands of allotted students having not confirmed their seats, a total of 10,561 seats have gone vacant across city colleges.

The maximum vacant seats were in the arts stream (5429) while the science stream saw the least number of vacant seats, 2,695. Ramchandra Jadhav, deputy director of education, Pune, who heads the CAP committee, said, “Students will not be given any more change of college and they have to take admissions wherever they have been allotted until August 1. No offline admissions will be allowed in colleges and hence they must not stay in the hope that colleges will give admissions at their level. From August 2, nine flying squads of officers will visit all colleges to ensure that colleges are not giving offline admissions. If we find any college doing so, the admission will be cancelled and action taken against the college management,” he said.

A total of 12,386 students were allotted admissions in the fifth special round meant for those students who had forgotten to fill online forms, filled it wrong, didn’t confirm admissions despite getting allotments in previous rounds which were later cancelled or those whose admissions were given in far-off colleges and wanted nearby colleges. Surprisingly instead of decreasing, the cut-off’s increased in many colleges after the fifth special round, observed committee officials. “Many students got their re-evaluation marks and their scores improved considerably, which is the reason for increase in cut-offs. We had 42 students with over 90 per cent score and 158 students with over 85 per cent score in this special round,” said Meenakshi Raut, education officer.

Meanwhile, although Jadhav claimed over 4,852 students got first preference college, parents who had gathered at the CAP centre in Garware College complained that although students were given fresh admissions in the special round based on their marks and college cut-offs, it didn’t do much to improve the situation with regard to geographical distance.