Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College on Monday released its first cut-off list for the 10 undergraduate courses it offers, with highest cut-offs being announced at 98.75% for BA English (Hons) and BA Economics (Hons) for students coming from commerce background. While the cut-off for BA Economics (Hons) remains the same as last year, there is a marginal increase of 0.25 percentage points in the English cut-off. DU First Cut Off List 2019
The college has at least 50 percent of the seats reserved for Christians and follows separate admission criteria.
For the Bachelor of Arts (BA) programme, candidates from the general category need to have at least 98 percent as their ‘best of four’ marks if they are from commerce and science streams. Humanities students need to have a best-four percentage of 96.5. Commerce students need to have the best of four percentage of 98.75 for applying to the BA (Honours) in economics, while humanities and science students need to have 98.5 and 97.75 percent, respectively.
Commerce and science students need to have a best-of-four percentage of 98.75 and 98.25 percent for those applying for BA (Honours) in English.
For BSc (Honours) in mathematics, commerce, science and humanities students need to have a best-of-four percentage of 97.5, 97.75 and 96.75 respectively.
Science and commerce students applying for BA (Honours) in history need to have 98.5 percent, while humanities students need to have at least 97.25 percent.
Commerce and humanities students need to have at least 97 percent in order to be eligible for admission to BA (Hons) in Philosophy and science students at least 96.5 percent.
Students need to have at least 65 percent for admission for BA (Hons) in Sanskrit, 96.33 percent for BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and 96.66 percent for Physics.
Candidates applying for admission to the BSc programme with chemistry need to have the best of four percentage of 95 and 96.66 percent for admission to BSc programme with computer science.
There are separate cut-offs under the quota for the applicants from the Church of North India (CNI).
According to the officials, this year, the college has received 19,862 applications, with 3,505 and 3,418 students applying for English and Economics respectively. Of these applicants, 59.2 percent were female and the rest male. Humanities had a total of 13,089 applications and sciences had 6,773 completed applications.
Anju Shrivastava, principal of Hindu College, said the cut-off released by St Stephen’s would help other colleges in assessing and deciding their cut-offs as well. Requesting anonymity, principal of another college in the north campus said other colleges are likely to have similar or higher cut-offs than Stephen’s in order to receive maximum applications and filter students accordingly.
“The cut-off is based on the number of applications we receive. It depends on the marks of the candidates who applied for the course,” Karen Gabriel, head of the English department, said when asked about the English honours cut-off. The cut-offs are decided via a standard process where the principal, head of the department, and the tutor for admission look at the number of applications and make decisions accordingly.
Interviews begin on Friday. Applicants may download their interview call letter, if selected, from the college website after Wednesday, the college said.
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