Parents, pupils get set for DU admissions

A day before the Delhi University (DU) admission process starts, anxious students and parents were busy arranging all the necessary documents and preparing themselves for uploading the forms on Wednesday.

For the first time, the process has been made completely online and the earlier system of having both offline and online as options abolished. Thousands of students, who have just passed class 12, will be applying to different streams in various colleges under the university.

Many students were heading to the schools from where they passed class 12 to collect documents like mark sheets, which they will need to submit on Wednesday.

Since the entire process has been made online for the first time, many are apprehensive over technical glitches, and even crashing of the website due to heavy traffic.

They are uncertain whom to contact in such situations. “They should have kept the offline option also. We were told that there will be a helpline to solve such queries, but no announcement in this regard has come as of yet,” said Aditya.

Others have contacted their senior friends who had sought admission in DU colleges through the online process in recent years.

“I have asked my elder brother’s friend to accompany me to the cyber café tomorrow. He is a student of DU and is tech-savvy,” said Aman Kumar, who will apply for BCom Honours in top colleges of the university.

Some have already downloaded the form and filled it with the help of their parents and are waiting for Wednesday to upload it online.

“Just to be prepared and not leave everything to the last moment, I have already filled the form for my son,” said Rachna Malik, whose son Rakshit will be apply to St Stephen’s College for its History course.

“We came to know from various people that after Stephen’s, Hindu College has the best History course. Our second choice is Hindu College. Hope he will get admission in either of these colleges,” said Rachna.

Rakshit scored 96.4  in Humanities stream in class 12, the results for which were declared on May 21.