Last date for candidates to accept the seats allotted to them is August 18.

New Delhi: Delhi University announced the first round of allotment for admission to undergraduate programs on Friday and more than 97,000 candidates were offered seats in various colleges.

Delhi University has a total of 71,600 undergraduate seats.

The academic session starts from August 29 and the allocation is 36 per cent more than the total seats in the colleges for which the university has decided to make additional allocations to fill the seats better.

The University has allotted seats on the basis of Unique Common Rank.

“In the first round of allotment, the university has decided to make additional allotment to fill the seats well so that the academic session starts on August 29, 2024. In total, 97,387 have been allotted in the first round. This excludes performance-based programs and CW, ECA, sports and supernumerary quotas for ward and Christian candidates,” the university said in a statement, adding that they should deposit their fees by August 21.

The university is taking admissions for 71,600 seats (excluding supernumerary seats) in 69 colleges and departments.

There are 1559 program-college combinations that will be admitted. As per records, 2,45,287 candidates had applied for Phase-I of Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS(UG)), out of which 1,85,543 applicants had completed Phase-II of CSAS by submitting their preferences for Program + College. combination.

The total number of preferences received by the university was 1,72,18,187.

This year, the university has added another feature to all candidates' dashboard, through which each candidate can see the cutoff and rank details that determine the seat allotment as per the category and quota of the candidate.

“Delhi University has displayed the common rank, cut-off rank, program-specific CUET score and cutoff score for all the programs applied by the candidate,” the university said.

Last date for candidates to accept the seats allotted to them is August 18.

It should be noted that candidates with the same programme-specific CUET score may have different ranks and having the same score as the cutoff does not guarantee admission, the university said in a statement.

Common rank is determined by applying tiebreaking rules. Ranks are not generated for performance-based programs and specific overscore quotas (Sports, ECA, CW and Wards).

This year, the university has also revised the tiebreaking rules for ranking. These changes are due to the fact that the National Testing Agency has released raw scores instead of normal scores for the CUET exam.

The tiebreaking rules are: The candidate with the highest percentage of aggregate marks in the best three subjects of class 12th will be given preference. If the marks in the best three subjects are also equal, preference will be given to the candidate with the higher percentage of aggregate marks in the best 4 subjects of 12th.

If they are also equal, preference will be given to candidates with higher percentage of aggregate marks in best 5 subjects of 12th.

If aggregate marks in best 5 subjects are also equal for two candidates, preference will be given to candidate with earlier date of birth. If dates are same, alphabetical order of names of candidates.

In an effort to ensure maximum seat occupancy, DU has decided to admit 20 per cent additional students in general, OBC and EWS categories and 30 per cent additional students in SC/ST/PwBD categories. However, to prevent overcrowding in classrooms, the existing 30 per cent reservation for “additional students” from SC/ST and PwBD categories will be reduced to 15 per cent in colleges with a withdrawal rate of less than 5 per cent.

(with ANI input)