Certain uncertainty at DU

This year has witnessed uncertainity at its best — from news of the Delhi University scrapping its BMS entrance, and then re-introducing it to doing away with group discussions. After 89 days of rigorous study and preparation for the entrance exams, we finally sat for the most-awaited BMS entrance exam. While we were coming out of the exam hall, smiling and confident that we would be selected, we came to know that BMS had been scrapped. What a waste of our precious time! There was only one course in Delhi University that was almost equivalent to SRCC and attracted aptitude rather than rote memorising and that, too, was gone. It has now been split into BBS, BFIA and BBA. Not only this but the admission process that was earlier the responsibility of FMS will now be managed by the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities, South Campus. This means that if any candidate qualifies for the course, he/she will now have to go to South Campus for counselling.

To add to the dilemma of students weighing the pros and cons of course over college, struggling to resist the temptation of choosing a college for its brand is the issue of dual admissions and original documents.

Earlier, if a student chose to reserve a seat in a college and was lucky to make it to the next cutoff list, he/she could withdraw their admission from the first college and enroll in the next college. The university has now come up with guidelines that if a student found to be enrolled in two courses at the same time they will lose their seat in both the colleges. Moreover, the colleges will not allow admission without the original documents that are submitted in the first college. These may take a day or two to be withdrawn.

Regardless of all that’s been happening, there is only one thing during these months that was certain….it was uncertainity!