While Centralised Admissions Process (CAP) authorities had assured students that junior college admissions would be completely transparent this year, for several, the supposedly hassle-free process has become a nightmare. On Wednesday, the office of the deputy directorate of education began receiving complaints from students and parents about junior colleges that were demanding exorbitant fees for std XI admissions.

CAP runneth over: Today is the last day for students to apply for college seats after checking the cut-off mark, as well as the number of vacant seats in each college. File pics

These were students who had not been allocated any college seats even after three rounds of admissions through CAP. mid-day had reported that there are 3,000 such students who had no choice but to begin applying for seats to each college independently on Tuesday (‘3,000 college students left in the lurch by CAP’, July 16).