D-day for 3,000 Pune students who are without college seats

Nearly 3000 students who have not secured admission to Std XI course in city colleges will be anxious and nervous today ndash colleges in the city will release individual merit lists after accepting applications for admissions offline after the centralised admission process CAP was unable to provide seats to the hopefulsLong line There are 190 seats vacant in the Science course at Nowrsojee Wadia College but 484 have applied for them File picThere are nearly 3000 such students who had been left without a seat after three CAP rounds due to different reasons ndash some didnrsquot get a college of their choice while others simply werenrsquot allotted a choice through the computerised merit listNowrsojee Wadia CollegeAfter the CAP rounds were over students were then told to apply individually to each college physically lsquo3000 college students left in the lurch by CAPrsquo July 16 However what is worrying is the fact that the number of applicants is several times that of the number of vacant seats in the reputed collegesMiddayrsquos July 16 report on the admissions processToo many for too fewOn Saturday CAP officials took an overview of some of the junior colleges in the city and found that demand for certain junior colleges is far more than the number of seats This has lead to the question whether these 3000 students would be able to get a seat or whether another round of admission has to be conducted to ensure seats donrsquot go vacant ldquoThe exact picture would get clear by Monday eveningrdquo CAP official Balasaheb Owhal saidHuge demand A few prominent colleges have seen a huge rush of applicants to various streamsTake for instance Sir Parshurambhau SP College ndash for 50 vacant seats including open and reserved seats as many as 273 students have applied for admission in the Science stream according to Owhal The ratio is even worse in the Commerce stream where 285 hopeful are fighting it out for 25 seatsIn Fergusson College 271 students are in the fray for 48 Science seats In colleges like Nowrosjee Wadia Modern and Abasaheb Garware the number of vacant seats is considerably more but so are the applicants ndash as much as five times the number of vacancies For 190 vacancies in the Science stream in Nowrosjee Wadia College 484 students have submitted their applicationsIn Modern College 580 are battling it out for the 115 Commerce seats ldquoI have scored 81 in SSC and I was expecting Garware College of Commerce but in the first merit list I got NMV where I didnrsquot take admission in hope that I would get Garware or at least SP in the next two rounds Unfortunately I havenrsquot been allotted any good college and since I had not accepted my admission in NMV I applied to five colleges in the offline process I hope I get a good college in this roundrdquo said one of the studentsThis paper had also reported on the allegedly exorbitant demands of inflated fees made by colleges to admit a child through the offline process ldquoEven though it seems that the gap between applicants and actual vacancies in colleges is huge in many cases students have applied in several colleges in the offline process So at the end of this round all students will get admission according to their meritrdquo explained Sandip Jadhav another CAP officialMeanwhile a larger number of seats in other colleges might be left untouched ndash there are 6184 vacancies to be filled after the CAP rounds through the offline process After the merit lists are published today the deadline for securing admission is July 22 to July 24