Mumbai University Admissions 2022: MOST CITY colleges declared their second merit list for degree admissions on Thursday. Cut-off scores have dropped from the first merit list. However, the competition is expected to get tougher in subsequent lists, according to colleges. At St Xavier’s College, cut-off score for BA has dropped marginally from 92 per cent to 91.67 per cent. At R D National College, for BSc Biotech, the cut-off score has dropped from 77.5 per cent to 68 per cent and for B Com, it has dropped from 71per cent to 64 per cent in the second merit list. Whereas at Ruia College, for their popular BA course, the cut-off score has dropped marginally from 89.33 in first merit list to 88.67 per cent in the second merit list. For BSc Biotech at the same college, the cut-off score has dropped to 89.67 per cent from 92 per cent. Once CBSE and ICSE results are out, the cut-off is expected to go up again. According to colleges, there is confusion among students regarding admissions. “Many students have missed out on filling forms at individual colleges after filing the varsity enrolment form,” said Dr Madhav Rajwade, principal of Sathaye College, adding that it has seen a lesser number of applications this year. The college will announce its third merit list on Friday. Many autonomous colleges in the city are running their separate admission procedure which is not in tandem with the Mumbai University-declared admission schedule, and many students are unaware of this. In the case of non-autonomous colleges too, the university circular on admissions has caused confusion among students who have failed to apply to individual colleges. “Students are familiar with the centralised process of admission. But for degree admissions in colleges, they have to apply to individual colleges of their choice separately for each of the courses they are willing to apply for,” said Anita Kanwar, principal of VES College, which has uploaded video tutorials on admission procedures on their website and also held awareness sessions for students of junior colleges from nearby locality to fill this gap. Pressing on the need for orientation of students for degree admissions, Dr Kiran Magaonkar, principal of the Guru Nanak Khalsa College, said, “All these students who are left out of the admission system due to confusion will lead to increased number of applications for subsequent admission rounds.” While competition is expected to increase with additional applications, few city colleges also anticipate a lesser number of seats for students coming from ICSE and CBSE. “Unlike autonomous colleges, we could not keep seats reserved for non-state board students. As all seats have opened now, by the time their result is declared; there will be fewer seats available,” said Dr Neha Jagtiani, principal of R D National College.
