Where on-campus colleges have had no more than a slight dip in percentage in the second cut-off list, off-campus colleges experienced a sharp fall. PGDAV had set the highest cut-off in Computer Science at 98% in the first list and with the second list out, the percentage has seen a drop as much as 5%.
Colleges such as Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bhagini Nivedita College, BR Ambedkar College, Motilal Nehru College and PGDAV college have seen the cut-offs taking a dip ranging from 2% to, for some courses, as much as 9%. Generally, the university receives a huge lot of applications and hence, the difference between the first and the second list is not more than 1.5%.
More often, many popular courses and colleges close their applications after filling up seats with the first cut-off itself. The swooping drop in the second cut-off list of off-campus colleges may be due to the fact that a lot of them lie on the outskirts of Delhi and are not well-connected to the Metro — making them relatively less popular among applicants. However, some courses weren’t much popular contributing to the drop.
For instance, in Aditi Mahavidyalaya, falling in Bawana, many courses saw the cut-off dip by 5-6%. For not-so-popular courses such as BA (Hons) Social Work, the cut-off broke down from 88% to 80%. Similarly, in its BA Hindi Journalism course, the cut-off fell from 80% to 75%. Even for popular courses such as BA Programme and Geography, there has been a drop of 5% and 4% respectively.
Science courses as well have experienced the same trend. Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences in Dwarka had the cut-offs go down by an average of 3%. Less common courses like Instrumentation (87%) and Polymer Science (87%) saw a drop of 5% each. Swami Shraddhanand College in Alipur had a drop of 6% and 5% in Applied Life Sciences and Botany. Cut-offs for languages, especially Hindi, saw a drastic drop in many colleges.
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