This time, many candidates who have scored between 160 and 180 out of 200 in the state engineering entrance test may lose out on seats in top colleges, while those not faring that well may get lucky.
The possibility of such a "twist" may surface as admissions in premier institutes like the IITs and NITs have been pushed back this year. As they wait for those colleges, students who have already qualified the state CET are going in for admissions to institutes in Maharashtra. Only after the IITs and NITs start their enrolment process, the top students-who would qualify in both the state and the centrally funded colleges -would vacate the state seats for the premier institutes. But this chunk of vacant seats would not really help the "second-rung" students, who would also have, by then, taken admission to some colleges; and according to the state's rule, once a candidate secures a seat in a state engineering institute, s/he cannot cancel it to opt for a better college.Rajesh Laddha, whose son has scored 163 in CET, said, "The number of cancellations could be anything from 100 to 200. An equal numbers of students will then be deprived of seats in good colleges. If my son does not get a seat in the top two to four colleges and get admission to the 5th or 6th-rung college, he will have to stick to it. He cannot change his option even if there are vacant seats in top colleges."
The engineering admissions this year in the state has gone for a toss, with the state for the first time starting their process before the IITs and NITs. After securing the seats, if the high scorers in the CET cancel their admissions in state's top colleges to go to the premier institutes, then a large chunk of seats will go vacant. By then, the section of students below the high scorers, probably the ones, who scored between 160-180 marks, would have already taken admissions in the seats available to them and will not get a betterment option.
Incidentally, the vacancies generated by the high-scorers will be offered to the final-counselling round students, who with their lower scores, would not have made it to previous lists.
The form-filling process at the state engineering colleges has already begun and the first allotment list will be published on June 26, while students will have to report to allotted institutes on June 28. For IITs, the first allotment list will be out only on July 4, while the NITs are yet to come up with a schedule. The second list for state engineering colleges will be out on July 6. The delay in admissions to IITs and NITs is owing to the implementation of JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced), and the weightage being given to class-XII scores. Since their admissions are conducted centrally, the institutes will have to wait for all the state boards to announce their class XII results. While admissions to the IITs will be given only to the top 20 percentile of students in each board, NITs will directly give 40% weightage to class XII scores after normalizing scores from all the boards. Also JEE (Advanced) could have been conducted only after JEE (Main) results were out.
Dayanand Meshram, joint director, directorate of technical education, said, "There could be seats vacant in good colleges after two rounds. This is the first year of the new system, so one cannot estimate the numbers of vacancies that will be created." He added that the DTE is compelled to complete the first round of admissions before June 30 by a Supreme Court order and could not have delayed it.
The possibility of such a "twist" may surface as admissions in premier institutes like the IITs and NITs have been pushed back this year. As they wait for those colleges, students who have already qualified the state CET are going in for admissions to institutes in Maharashtra. Only after the IITs and NITs start their enrolment process, the top students-who would qualify in both the state and the centrally funded colleges -would vacate the state seats for the premier institutes. But this chunk of vacant seats would not really help the "second-rung" students, who would also have, by then, taken admission to some colleges; and according to the state's rule, once a candidate secures a seat in a state engineering institute, s/he cannot cancel it to opt for a better college.Rajesh Laddha, whose son has scored 163 in CET, said, "The number of cancellations could be anything from 100 to 200. An equal numbers of students will then be deprived of seats in good colleges. If my son does not get a seat in the top two to four colleges and get admission to the 5th or 6th-rung college, he will have to stick to it. He cannot change his option even if there are vacant seats in top colleges."
The engineering admissions this year in the state has gone for a toss, with the state for the first time starting their process before the IITs and NITs. After securing the seats, if the high scorers in the CET cancel their admissions in state's top colleges to go to the premier institutes, then a large chunk of seats will go vacant. By then, the section of students below the high scorers, probably the ones, who scored between 160-180 marks, would have already taken admissions in the seats available to them and will not get a betterment option.
Incidentally, the vacancies generated by the high-scorers will be offered to the final-counselling round students, who with their lower scores, would not have made it to previous lists.
The form-filling process at the state engineering colleges has already begun and the first allotment list will be published on June 26, while students will have to report to allotted institutes on June 28. For IITs, the first allotment list will be out only on July 4, while the NITs are yet to come up with a schedule. The second list for state engineering colleges will be out on July 6. The delay in admissions to IITs and NITs is owing to the implementation of JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced), and the weightage being given to class-XII scores. Since their admissions are conducted centrally, the institutes will have to wait for all the state boards to announce their class XII results. While admissions to the IITs will be given only to the top 20 percentile of students in each board, NITs will directly give 40% weightage to class XII scores after normalizing scores from all the boards. Also JEE (Advanced) could have been conducted only after JEE (Main) results were out.
Dayanand Meshram, joint director, directorate of technical education, said, "There could be seats vacant in good colleges after two rounds. This is the first year of the new system, so one cannot estimate the numbers of vacancies that will be created." He added that the DTE is compelled to complete the first round of admissions before June 30 by a Supreme Court order and could not have delayed it.
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