High 90% Fetches Seats in Top Colleges

Apte College posted 97.27% for Science, BMCC listed 93% for Commerce while Fergusson sought 90% for arts

The cut-off percentages for admission to standard XI at prominent junior colleges in the city and neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad have gone up marginally this year keeping with the trend that was set last year following the introduction of the Best-5 policy.
The policy allows the state board students to calculate their standard X aggregate score, based on marks in the best five out of total six subjects. Last year, the cut-off (percentage point) where admission to a given college is closed, went up by 3% to 4%. It showed marginal improvement of 1% to 2%, this year.

Laxmanrao Apte Junior College was once again among the sought-after colleges, recording the highest 97.27% cut-off for science stream - a 0.91% improvement over last year's cut-off of 96.36%. In 2009, admissions at Apte College closed at 93.84%.
The next best science stream cutoff, at 94.55%, was shared by Deccan Education Society's (DES) Fergusson College, Pune and Jaihind College, Pimpri. Last year, science admissions at Fergusson College closed at 94.20% while the Jaihind College has ended up with the same cut-off that it had registered in 2010.
In the arts stream, Fergusson College maintained its lead status with admissions closing at 90%, up by 2% over last year's 88%. Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce recorded the second best cut-off at 85.45%, a 19.27% improvement over last year's cut-off of 66.18%.

The DES' Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) remains the most sought-after college for commerce stream with admissions closing at 93.09%, up by 1.09% over last year 92%. The next best cut-off for commerce was 84.36% recorded by the Symbiosis College. In all, 46,545 seats have been allotted in the Round 1 of the standard XI CAP, the merit list for which was released on Monday by deputy director (education) Sunil Magar, who heads the multi-member CAP committee. All students, who applied through the CAP, have been allotted a seat. This includes 2,949 students from CBSE, ICSE and other non-SSC boards, Magar said. The classes will commence from August 8 instead of the previously announced date of August 4. The delay is mainly due to the issues relating to the CBSE students, he said. Last year, the legal tussle over the Best-5 policy had impacted the admission schedule and the classes finally started on August 18. This year, we are starting 10 days earlier than last year despite the delay caused by CBSE issues, Magar said.

The CAP panel had declared an overall admission capacity of 63,680 (inclusive of the 4,875 bifocal science seats) while it received 54,898 admission pleas. The round 1 allotment of 46,545 prima facie indicates a difference of 17,135 seats between the admission capacity and actual allotment. The difference cannot be construed as vacant seats, Magar insisted.
Of the 54,898 forms received, the figure of 46,545 for the round 1 seat allotment was worked out after elimination of dual pleas. For instance, 2,269 candidates had applied for science as well as commerce stream seats and another 98 applied for science as well as arts stream seats. Yet another 505 students applied for science as well as commerce (Marathi) stream seats. Many applicants also moved to the post-SSC diploma courses, he said.

The final position vis-a-vis vacancies will be clear only after the quota seats such as the 5% available to college managements; 20% available to junior colleges attached to secondary schools; and 50% available to colleges run by minority institutions, are accounted for at the end of the CAP process by August 8, he added.
Last year, the CAP panel had reported 10,268 vacant seats at the end of the admission process. The number of junior colleges then was 146 as against 160 this year. Of the total round 1 allotment, 22,671 seats went to the science stream for which the CAP panel had declared an admission capacity of 20,965 seats. The excess applicants were accommodated by allowing the junior colleges to increase their science student intake by 10% to 20% of the existing intake, Magar said.

For commerce stream (English as well as Marathi medium), 21,634 admissions have been effected as against the capacity of 26,380 seats. Similarly, 2,240 admissions have been effected for arts stream, against a capacity of 11,460 seats. The CAP panel authorities sounded sure that the commerce seats will eventually be filled by the end of the admission process in August. However, arts remains a problem area, they admitted.
Fergusson College Principal R. G. Pardeshi, executive president of CAP, vice-principal Rekha Palshikar, assistant director (education) P. P. Sable, CAP panel members Jagdish Chinchore and M. D. Lawrence were present.

Key Instructions:

Students should confirm their allotted seat on priority Students wanting to wait till the waitlist allotments are out by foregoing their original allotted seat will be doing so at their own risk Only photocopies of support documents, like marklist, to be submitted along with the admission form Grievances on excess charging of fees should be referred to the deputy director of education through CAP's main centre at Fergusson college.

Preferences:

27.69% of total applicants for science stream got the college of their first choice while 51.08% students got a seat in one of the first three preferences they made In commerce English medium, 36.65% of total applicants got the college of their first choice while the same for commerce Marathi medium was 49.76% and 38.66% of total applicants in arts stream got the college of their first choice while the same for arts Marathi medium was 88.38%.

Admission Programme ahead:

Subject
July 26 to 28	Candidates to confirm their seat at the allotted junior college
July 28, 5 pm	Release of first waiting list
July 29 and 30	Waitlisted candidates to report to their allotted college for confirmation of admission
July 30, 5 pm	Release of second waiting list (if needed)
August 1 and 2	Confirmation of admission at allotted college by candidates under second wait list. Process to be carried out between 10.30 am and 4 pm every day
August 3	Stream-wise, medium wise review of vacancy at the end of Std XI CAP at 11 am at Fergusson College's amphitheatre
August 4 to 6	Counseling based table round admissions for Std X fail students, who applied admission to Std XI under the allowed-to-keep-term (ATKT) scheme, at Fergusson College
August 8	Standard XI classes to commence at 160 junior colleges in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad

CAP at a Glance:

Subject
Applications received	54,898 (inclusive of 2,117 pleas under ATKT scheme)
Total seats allotted under CAP Round I	46,545
Backward Class students	18,666 (40.10% of total allotment in Round I)
Science stream allotment	22,671
Commerce stream allotment (English+Marathi medium)	21,634
Arts stream allotment (English+Marathi medium)	2,240

ATKT Admission Schedule:

Subject
July 30	Provisional merit list to be declared at 11 am at four designated colleges Fergusson, Nowrosjee Wadia, Sir Parsurambhau (SP colleges and Mhalsakant Mahavidyalaya, Akurdi)
August 1	Redressal of grievances, if any, relating to the provisional list at the four designated colleges, from 11 am to 4 pm
August 3	Final merit list to be displayed at 4 pm at the four designated colleges
August 4 to 6	Counseling-based table round admissions at Fergusson college recreation hall, from 9 am to 5 pm ATKT provisional as well as final merit list will also be posted on two websites: www.dydepune.com and www.punenet.net

For Students not part of Standard XI CAP:

Students, who did not apply for admission through the CAP for various reasons, can still seek admission at individual college level at the end of the ATKT admission process. The CAP committee will release a college-wise, stream-wise and medium-wise vacancy position at 11 am on August 8 for the non-CAP students to enable them approach the concerned college for admission between August 8 and 11. Admissions will be strictly against vacancy.

Grievance Redressal:

Students who may have issues regarding the allotted seat not being of their choice can furnish the prescribed application forms at either of the five grievance redressal centres at: Fergusson, Garware, Nowrosjee Wadia, SP and Mhalsakant colleges between 10.30 am and 4 pm from July 26 to 28. Fergusson College will be the main complaint centre with contact numbers (020) 32346011 and 32346012.

Courtesy: Times of India