Delhi University colleges have been working overtime, number-crunching and dealing with the sheer volume of applications for the few seats that have not yet been filled.
With thousands of applications coming in via the DU portal to fill up a handful of remaining seats, some colleges got the maths wrong, leaving students and parents in a panic mode on Thursday.
DU had provided colleges with a list of students and their marks in their best-of-four subjects so that the list could be shortened from a few thousand to a few hundred. It was then up to the colleges to sort out the list according to the courses applied for and to add or subtract marks based on subjects studied in Class XII.
“Perhaps some colleges took the best-of-four list as the merit list and published it without accounting for variation according to subject studied. This caused some confusion,” said a spokesperson from the university.
DU has instructed colleges to withdraw the list where there is a discrepancy and prepare a new merit list.
“DU took its undergraduate admission process online for the first time. With over 2.5 lakh applicants, the system is facing teething issues that will be sorted out soon. The system was tested during post-graduate admissions, but the numbers we dealt with were much smaller,” added the spokesperson.
DU had earlier not allowed students who had already taken admission to re-apply for vacant seat without cancelling their admission, but changed that rule on Monday after an admission committee meeting.
The second merit list will be out on July 30 and the third list on August 3.
