St Stephen’s to begin intake from May 6

NEW DELHI: The admission form and prospectus for undergraduate admission to St Stephen’s College will be available from May 6. However, Delhi University’s admission process will begin later.
Till now, the admission process at St Stephen’s, a DU college, used to begin with the university or after it. Last year, it had started a week after DU started its procedure. Being minority institutes, St Stephen’s and Jesus and Mary are allowed to follow their own admission process despite being DU colleges.
Over the past few years, all candidates had to first register themselves on the university admission portal and used the assigned form number and the email ID submitted on the DU site while applying in these two colleges. Once the registration was over and fees paid on the university portal, the application was submitted to these institutes. There is no clarity if this process will be followed this year too.
The university had earlier announced that its admission process would begin on April 15, but it has been delayed. Rajeev Gupta, dean students’ welfare (DSW) and chairperson of the admission committee, said, “The university’s admission process is not beginning at that time. The dates will be announced later.”
The admission to St Stephen’s takes place through an aptitude test and an interview. While 15 marks are earmarked for the test and the interview, the rest is allotted to the Class XII results. This year, the governing body of the college has decided that an aptitude test will be held for all undergraduate courses.
The college offers 10 undergraduate courses. Last year, the aptitude test for two BSc honours courses, physics and chemistry, were not held.
The governing body has also decided that there will be an increase in the merit differential percentage to 25% for the candidates belonging to Church of North India (CNI) and Church of North India Delhi (CNI-D). Being a minority college, 50% of the seats are reserved for Christians. Out of this 50%, 22.5% is reserved for CNI, with 11.25 % of it meant for the Delhi Diocese that manages the college.