The Delhi University's under graduate admission process this year is like playing musical chairs, says Pratibha Jolly, the principal of Miranda House college. With no pre-admission forms and five cut off lists, colleges are playing it safe by filling up the bulk of seats as early on as after the publication of the first list.

Miranda House has set the record this year for admitting the largest number of students on the first day of admissions.

“We have over-admitted students in maths, economics and political science. In economics, we covered 55 already with 62 seats. In basic sciences, for OBC we have filled about 1/4th seats already, which is 64 out of 265. But it doesn’t bother me because this year’s admission process is going to be like a game of musical chairs. There is going to be a lot of migration. My competitors are Hindu and Hans Raj,” Jolly said.

She, however, does not quite favour the new process and said, “The allocation of courses in colleges must be centralised. The preferences of students have to be of top most priority.”

Commenting about the cut offs this year she said, “We have seen the results, so in my opinion marks are no more a yardstick to measure merit. And as we have seen, this year the cut offs have been very unrealistic. We need to review the policy of cut offs."

Students on the campus prove the principal right by having chosen Miranda House as their second even third option.

Leena from Orissa, scored 92.5 percent aggregate with 90 percent in mathematics. She has secured admission in to Miranda House but said, “I want to do BSc honours with Maths and Hans Raj is my first option. Their first list cut off is 95 and here it is 89. So I took admission here, but I have my fingers crossed. I hope to make it to atleast the third list of Hans Raj.”

Harpreet from Delhi said, “I have got 79 percent and want to BA honours in English. I just took admission in Miranda House but I wish to do my BA honors from Hindu. Their first cut off was 80 percent. So I am confident of making it to their second list. But just as a back up, I secured a seat in Miranda House.”