Category B.Com (Hons) B.A. (Hons) Economics General 97.75% 98.50% OBC 95.50% 96.75% SC 92.75% 94.25% ST 87.50% 92.50% PwD 86.75% 94.50% Kashmiri Migrants 88.75% 95.50%

NEW DELHI: While cut-offs dropped in several colleges in this process, the overall cut-offs remain high across colleges, with each expecting a handful of admissions under the first list.Khalsa college in north campus, famous for the highest cut-off last year at 99.66% for BSc Electronics last year has also brought down the cut-off for the subject to 97% in the list released on Monday night. However, the highest cut-off this year has been recorded by Lady Shri Ram college for its BA (program) at 98.75%, followed by Shri Ram College of Commerce for its BA Economics (Hons) course.Despite a significant drop across the board, certain subjects will still stay out of reach for a majority of aspirants in the first list. However, the highest jump has also been recorded in BA Sanskrit (Hons) at Kirori Mal College with a 10% point spike. Among Science subjects, Physics has been the most popular course, with the cut-off touching 98% in Hindu college.The admission process for the first cut-off will be held from Tuesday to Thursday (both days inclusive) from 9.30am to 1.30pm for morning colleges and 4pm to 7pm for evening colleges. Once the admission has been approved at the college, the applicant must log on to DU UG admission portal and pay the fees online. The payment of fees can be done until Thursday noon. The second cut-off will be released on Monday next week (June 25).As per the first cutoff list released by DU the B.A. English (Honours) cut off for the Hansraj College for this year is 97.25%. For B.A. Economics (Honours) the cut off is 98%.As per the first cut-off list released by the Gargi College the Applied Psychology, Economics, Mathematics have the highest cutoffs with 97%.There is a marginal rise of 0.5% for Mathematics while a 0.5% drop for B.A. (Hons) Economics.Hindu College has also released its first cutoff percentages. As per the cut-off the Economics (H), English (H), and Physics (H) have the highest cut-off percentages i.e., 98%. The cut-off for Physics increased by 1.5% points while English and Economics cutoffs increased by 0.5% points.The university has declared that, this time around, there will be only five cutoff lists. There will be a centralised counselling list after the fifth one is declared, where the university will try to fill the vacant seats.DU has also decided to share the cutoffs of various colleges with principals, allowing them to make changes to their respective lists after analysing the trends. But officials at Kirori Mal College said the data were yet to be shared as many colleges hadn’t released a tentative list on account of the Eid holiday. The colleges have till 6pm on Monday to assess the data.Out of near 2.8 lakh students who applied for undergraduate courses this year, 126,327 chose English as their preferred course, followed distantly by B.A. (Programme) at 105,818 and Political Science at 105,590 applications.Economics and History were the other courses for which the number of applications ran over 90,000.The number for those applying for B.Com and B.Com (Honors) was 85,791 and 74,921, respectively.The most applications among the science courses were garnered by Mathematics, closely trailed by Physics and Computer Science. More than 70,000 students opted for these three courses.Vocational courses like Tourism and Human Resource Management, along with Philosophy and Applied Psychology were among the least popular courses, managing just above one-third of what was attracted by the most popular.