September 16, 2020 6:17:07 pm
As a religious minority institution with 50% of places reserved for Christians, the university has a separate admissions system with a separate application form.
St Stephen’s College declared its first cut list for admission to undergraduate courses on Tuesday. The boundary is declared before that of other faculties of the University of Delhi, and is seen as a window into the direction that other faculties of the university are expected to take.
What is the increase in cuts at St. Stephen’s College?
According to the list published by the university, there has been an increase in the cutoff percentages in the 11 undergraduate courses offered by the university. The highest limits are for the BA (Honors) Economics program, for which mainstream applicants will require 99.25 percent or more. Humanities students are capped at 98.75 percent and science students are 98 percent. Last year, the course limits were 98.75 percent, 98.5 percent, and 97.75 percent, respectively, for the different streams. Business students also have 99 percent limits for BA (Honors) History, BA (Honors) English, and BA Program. Last year, the limit was 98.5%, 98.75% and 98% for these courses.
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In the field of science, the percentage of PCM (physics, chemistry and mathematics) required for Chemistry (Hons) and Physics (Hons) has increased from 96.33% and 96.66% last year to 96.67% and 97.66% this year, respectively.
How is the admissions system at St. Stephen’s College different from other DU colleges?
As a religious minority institution with 50% of places reserved for Christians, the university has a separate admissions system with a separate application form. For admission to other DU universities, there is a general admission application. While other colleges admit only across boundaries, at St. Stephen’s, it is just the first step followed by a written test and an interview. However, given the current circumstances of the pandemic, this year there will be a written test and the interviews will be conducted online.
The director of another DU university, who did not want to be named, said that the high percentages despite the difference in the admissions process indicate that the situation is likely not different at other universities.
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“With the interview they have a mechanism that allows them not to admit more than the sanctioned force of the students as long as we do not have an admission filter other than the cut-off list, which pushes us to be even more cautious with our lists. Its high limits despite these filters definitely indicate the flow of things, ”said the director.
Does this mean that cuts will be higher at all colleges this year?
Colleges prepare their individual cutlists based on the applicant data provided to them by the university based on the general admission forms. This data has not yet been sent to the constituent universities, so the universities have yet to begin preparing their lists.
This year, there has been a huge increase in the number of undergraduate applicants with a total of 3,53,717 applications. Last year, the university had received requests for 2.58 lakhs for its undergraduate courses. Like every year, the largest number of applicants comes from CBSE-affiliated schools, where there has been a sharp increase in the percentage of students scoring above 95 percent, from 1.47 percent of total applicants last year. to 3.24 percent this year.
Hindu College Principal Anju Shrivastava said that while the increase in the total number of applicants will not affect the limits at a university like hers, the St. Stephen limits indicate a high number of applicants with high percentages.
“Our admissions start and end with the students who have the highest percentages and it always drops to a 2, 3, 4 point margin. So it just comes down to the percentages of those who get the highest scores. The data from their applications on the basis of which St. Stephen’s created its cut-off list indicates the high percentages of applicants and there is no reason why the same pool of applicants should not apply for general admission, ”she said.
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