SRCC, Hindu reopen Eco seats in 4th list

DU aspirants who had given up on getting admission in Economics (honours) in top colleges were in for a pleasant surprise on Thursday. Shri Ram College of Commerce reopened admission for BA (H) economics in the fourth cutoff list announced by Delhi University on Thursday night.

Two other campus colleges — Hindu College and Miranda House — too reopened admissions in this sought-after course. While SRCC and Miranda House reduced the economics cutoff by 0.25 percentage points each, Hindu decreased it by 0.5 percentage point. Other colleges which are going to admit students in the fourth list in this course include Hans Raj, Ramjas, Sri Venkateswara, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce and College of Vocational Studies.

While admissions for Economics (H) are on in 10 colleges , including six campus colleges , BCom (H) is open in 12, including Hans Raj, IP College, Ramjas and Sri Venkateswara.

The icing on the cake of the fourth cutoff list is the BA programme which is open for admissions in general category across 24 colleges with dips in cutoffs of up to 5 percentage points.

SRCC principal P C Jain said the college has 62 seats in Economics (H). "By the end of the third list, admissions and withdrawal the college has been left with 65 students of which around a dozen are from science background. By past experience these students leave for professional courses like engineering and medicine, which is why we had to reopen in the fourth list."

Withdrawals have been one of the major reasons for BCom (H) remaining open in colleges like Hans Raj and reopening in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College. The highest decrease of 2 percentage points has been recorded at Zakir Husain (evening) with its cutoff ranging from 83% to 88%. The highest cutoff now for BCom (honours) in the fourth list is at Hans Raj with 96% to 98%, a decrease of 0.25 percentage point.

Two courses which are open in a significant number of colleges are BCom and BA programme . BCom is open in 21 colleges , including Kamla Nehru, Dayal Singh, Sri Venkateswara, Ramjas and Maitreyi. In fact Maitreyi along with Zakir Husain (evening) recorded the highest dip in cutoff for this course with a decrease of 3.5%.

Nearly half the colleges offering BA programme continued admission in the fourth list, including colleges like Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Sri Venkateswara, Zakir Husain (evening), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and SGTB Khalsa. The highest cutoff for BA programme has been recorded at SGTB Khalsa with 82% to 87% followed by Sri Venkateswara with 80% to 91%. Zakir Husain (evening) has the lowest as well as the largest range with a cutoff of 45% to 65%.