NEW DELHI: Admissions under the third cutoff list in Delhi University (DU) began on Monday with colleges seeing a stream of applicants across courses.
After the first two cutoff lists, the varsity saw over 51,000 admissions against the 70,000 seats that are on offer this year.
According to senior university officials, as of 6.30 pm on Monday, over 7,900 applications had been approved by the respective college principals.
The third cutoff list released by DU on Saturday had seen several popular courses close for admissions, while the ones that remained open continued having high asking scores.
Gargi College saw around 600 applications on the first day, said principal Promila Kumar.
“Admissions are gaining momentum from the first day itself. We are receiving a good response for the commerce courses – for both BCom and BCom (H) – as the cutoffs were reduced to 96.5% and 97.75%, respectively. For BSc (H) physics and mathematics also, we saw a good response,” Kumar said.
Aryabhatta College saw around 145 applications, out of which 102 were approved. Admission convener RK Dwivedi said that with 31 admissions, the highest rush was seen for BSc (H) mathematics. BSc (H) computer science, which had closed for the general and OBC categories in the third list, saw 22 admissions while BA (H) hindi saw 20 admissions.
Some colleges also saw withdrawals along with the fresh admissions.
At Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma college, there were around 93 withdrawals and 100 new admissions, principal Gyantosh Jha said.
Under the three lists, 1.4 lakh students had applied till Monday.
Applicants have time till October 23 to pay the admission fee and secure their seats after which DU will release a special cutoff list subject to availability of seats.
