MUMBAI: Merely 49,062 students were allotted seats In the fourth and final merit list for first year junior colleges (FYJC) announced on Tuesday. At the end of the regular rounds of admissions, it is estimated that around 60,000 students are still without seats.
All eyes are now on the vacant minority quota seats that are expected to be made available for general category students in the special rounds that are likely to be announced on Thursday. Just 60% of the 81,063 students who were eligible for a seat in the fourth round were allotted one.
Of these, barely 15,249 students were allotted a college of first preference. With only a few seats on offer at top junior colleges, the cutoffs continued to be high. At several colleges, though, seats were allotted to students who had cancelled admission in a previous round and were no longer looking for a place in a junior college. For instance, the single vacant seat at St Xavier’s College, Fort, in the arts stream was allotted to a student with a 97.5% score.
The student was allotted the same college in the first round though. He had secured the seat but cancelled the admission to study at an ICSE school. Similar was the case with a student who topped the science merit list at the college. At Mulund’s V G Vaze College, too, there are a few students on the merit list who had cancelled allotted seats.
Education department officials said the allotments were done because students who had cancelled the admission in previous rounds were given a second chance. The education department is in the process of drawing rules for the special rounds. “We will hold some special round on the basis of merit for the students who are left out.
The leftover seats will then be allotted on afirst come, first served basis,” said Rajendra Ahire, deputy director of the Mumbai division. Students are eagerly awaiting the 50,000 minority seats. “I am hopeful that once minority seats at K J Somaiya College, Vidyavihar, open up, I will stand a chance,” said an arts aspirant who got 68%. Students who had cancelled admissions in regular rounds and were allotted their first preference but did not take it will be considered on a first come, first served basis, read a ticker on the admission portal
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