Click to play videoNew Delhi: The CBSE Class 12 results were very good this year, but with the high now comes the low. The fallout of the good performance is that college cut-offs in Delhi University have risen sharply.
So, what are the chances of a bright student getting a college and course of their choice. Not too many.
"It's very tough, I'm shocked with the kind of percentages that have been put out. Why can't there be more colleges?" says a DU aspirant, Chandini Singh's father.
Chandini's harried father is just echoing the concerns of most parents with children in the DU admission race.
Chandini has managed 81 per cent but hasn't made it to the cut-off of any top rung college.
Another student, Harleen with a 99 per cent in maths and a 91.25 per cent aggregate isn't getting Maths Honours at Hindu College or St Stephens.
"Let's see. I have to be practical so I will wait for the second list to come out," says Harleen.
It's difficult to miss the dejection in these students voices. In a system where even a 90 per cent isn't enough, where does a student go?
As the best recognised university across North India, Delhi University attracts toppers from cities as far as Lucknow, Patna and the north East.
Infact 40 per cent of the 73,000 applications received this year are from out station students. And DU's top colleges have only one process of elimination - pushing up the cut-offs - often with no second lists to follow.
What then is the way out?
Says Principal, Hindu College Dr Kavita Sharma, "Expansion and community colleges and ITI's are the way out. Also I think that we need a public-private interface."
The reservation issue is pushing centeral universities towrds an expansion plan, but it's something that should have happened a long time a go.
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