Delhi University’s (DU) online application process for admissions will begin on Monday from 5 p.m.
The process will enable undergraduate applicants to seek admission to 60 undergraduate programmes in 63 colleges of the university. There are around 56,000 seats up for grabs that usually receive nearly 2,50,000 applications.
The application window will close on June 12.
The application process went online for the first time last year and the university has said that it has sought feedback to strengthen the portal and has added dedicated servers to handle the traffic on the website.
Complete information for admissions is likely to be uploaded by Monday noon.
Single form
The university has said that applicants will have to fill out only one form and can can edit it till the last day (June 12) by adding courses and updating information.
This year, students will have to upload their Class XII Board examination roll number to ensure that a single student does not fill multiple forms. Those students who are awaiting their Board results can register themselves and fill in their marks once the results are declared.
During online registration, applicants will have to upload a passport-size photograph, scanned signature, self-attested Class X Board exam certificate, and self-attested Class XII marksheet.
For those applying for reserved seats, sports quota or ECA admission the respective certificates will also have to be uploaded.
Helpline and ‘open days’
The university informed that it will organise ‘open days’ to guide and counsel admission seekers and their parents between May 22 and May 31 at the conference centre, gate number 4, in North Campus from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For undergraduate admission seekers, a help desk will be set up at room number 4 of the centre from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m throughout the admission process.
The university has also launched a helpline number 011-27006900 to deal with queries from students.
For students who do not have access to the internet or a computer, several DU colleges have been asked to make available networked computers to applicants.
Cut-offs
This year, the CBSE has announced that it will be doing away with moderation of marks, which has been blamed for the sky-high cut-offs at DU.
Since 80% of applicants to DU are from the CBSE Board, the cut-offs may fall by a few percentage points.
DU officials, however, said that they cannot comment on the percentage falling due to CBSE doing away with moderation as DU is a central university and receives applications from students who have cleared their examinations from various other boards.
Only after all the data is collected will the university have an idea of what the cut-offs are going to be like.
The CBSE had written to DU to give appropriate weightage to its students for this admission season, but the university said it cannot differentiate between students from different boards. Officials refused to comment it they had replied to CBSE’s letter.
Women’s education
In an effort to promote “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao”, the university said that all female students who are residents of the National Capital Territory will automatically register themselves for DU’s Non Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB) when they fill out the admission form and opt for either BA (Programme) or B.Com (Pass) or both. They will not have to pay any separate fee.
Further information about the entire admission process is available at www.du.ac.in .
