After second list, many shift college and change course

NEW DELHI: The Delhi University’s second cutoff has triggered a sort of musical chairs among students with many of them shifting to other colleges, while others seeking transfer to courses of their choice following a decrease in cutoffs.
There have been 65 withdrawals in Hans Raj, 69 in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, 40 in Gargi and around 20 in Miranda House.Off-campus colleges like Ram Lal Anand College, too, saw 50 withdrawals as against 20 admissions on the first day of second cutoff admissions.
The admission to popular courses like BCom(H) is still open in 44 colleges, while economics is open in 24 and English in 31 colleges.
At Miranda House, despite withdrawals, 700 of 1,000 seats are already filled up. The college principal, Pratibha Jolly, said subjects like political science will be closed by the end of the second cutoff admissions. “We had around 20 withdrawals, of which some are from history. Majority of the students withdrew opting for co-ed colleges,” said Jolly.
At Shri Ram College of Commerce, there were no withdrawals. However, some students shifted from BCom (H) to economics. There is likely to be a third list for economics as, so far, only 30 students have taken admission in this course for general category as against 60 seats. In all, 80 students have enrolled for the subject out of a total 123.
According to admission convener of Kamala Nehru College, Neeru Singh, students withdrew their admissions from BCom and BA (Progamme) too. They are shifting to courses like psychology and English. Majority of the transfers were from Daulat Ram College, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma and Maitreyi.
Some students, who lost out due to the penalty clause, are getting opportunity in the second cutoff. However, they advised against opting for subjects like informatics practices in future. Pallavi Vemuganti, transferred from history to political science in the second cutoff after she lost 2.5 percentage points in the first cutoff due to informatics practices, said, “It is very unfair to not inform us in advance. I am advising my principal and those still in school to not opt for the course if they’re planning to study in DU. Had we known even in September, at the time of registration, we could have done something.”