Seven students in the academic stream and two students from vocational stream have a cut-off of 200 according to the merit list released by the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions 2016 (TNEA) for Anna University’s single window counselling.
Of the three toppers in the academic stream, two have qualified in other entrance exams. Aburva Darshini A., who did her entire schooling in Kochi in Kerala, has scored 1198/1200.
“I wrote the Kerala State entrance exam and have the chance to qualify for a seat in a college here but I want to study in College of Engineering,” she said. Her father is also an engineer.
N. Bharathan, who studied at Narayana Junior College in Nellore, says he has scored 162 marks in the Joint Entrance Exam (Main) and hopes to join one of the National Institutes of Technology for which admissions open on Friday. “I went to Nellore as the coaching for engineering is good there,” he says.
With a centum in mathematics, physics and chemistry, he has short-listed five NITs – Tiruchi, Calicut, Suratkal, Nagpur and Bhopal – where he wants to pursue mechanical engineering.
Topper V. Vignesh, son of a bus conductor from Thanjavur, was admitted to the Madras Medical College on Tuesday and has opted out of engineering counselling.
M.D. Nivetha, with a cut-off of 200 in the vocational stream, is a student of Government Higher Secondary School in Onnupuram village in Arni.
She wants to pursue Computer Science Engineering (CSE) or IT at PSG Institute of Technology, says her brother, who is doing engineering at SSN College in Chennai.
“It has been her childhood dream to study CSE,” he says. Nivetha’s school offered textile technology as a subject as all the villagers are weavers. Her father works as a casual labourer in a loom in the village.
Higher Education Minister K.P. Anbazhagan said counselling would be held for special categories from Friday and for general category from Monday. Academic general counselling would end on July 21 and vocational counselling would be held on July 23 and 24.
