As expected, a number of sought after colleges of Delhi University closed admissions to the popular B Com (Hon) and Economics (Hons) courses for general category students on Monday after recording admissions in excess of sanctioned seats over the last four days.

However, for OBC students, seats were still available in almost all top-notch colleges that brought out their second cut off lists on Monday.

The university said colleges have exercised ‘abundant caution’ in declaring the second cut-off list and advised aspirants not to get discouraged as most colleges are expected to announce three more lists with lower cut-offs.

The Sri Ram College of Commerce declared its admissions closed for both B Com and Eco honours after taking in 161 and 10 extra admissions in both these courses for the general category. For the OBC category a second cut-off list was announced at 92 to 96 per cent in B Com (H) and 92.75 to 95.75 in Eco (H).

It was amply evident that the colleges, which have come out with second lists, have indeed exercised caution and had not lowered cut-offs substantially.

Besides SRCC, the admissions in the general category in B Com (hons) closed in Hindu college, Ramjas, Daulat Ran, Dyal Singh and Shaheed Bhagat Singh colleges, among others.

The Eco (hons) course was closed in Hindu, Miranda, Ramjas and Shaheed Bhagat Singh, among others.

Among the colleges that declare a second cut-off list for Commerce, Kirorimal put it at 95.5 to 96.75, while Sri Venkateshwar declared it at 95.5 to 97. Other colleges in this category were Gargi, Hansraj, Lady Sri Ram and Deshmukh.

Hansraj college too put the cut-off at a high of 95.75 to 97.75 for B Com (Honours) and 95.5 to 96.5 for Eco (H).

It is by far clear that a large number of students who have secured even above 90 per cent marks will not be able to get the subject or college of their choice and will have to compromise on either of the two.

There was a scramble for the limited seats at the much sought after colleges in the University after the first cut- off list came out on June 15.

The SRCC, which had declared a cut-off of 96 to 100 per cent for B Com (H), was also criticised by some quarters for keeping the rates so high. However, as students thronged to take admissions, the high cut-offs proved no deterrent.

The college took in 413 students against its 252 seats in the B Com (Honours) course, besides taking 71 against 61 seats in the Eco (H) course. The college, however, still has a substantial number of seats vacant for OBC students.

The Hindu college, meanwhile, had taken 843 admissions against a sanctioned strength of 750, with 162 being admitted to B Com (Honours) against 62 seats.

A number of Humanities courses like Sociology, Political Science and History were also quite near the full mark, said media coordinator Anju Srivastava.

In the Humanities bracket, Political Science has emerged as one of the favourites of the students, and second cut-off lists for this subject did not come out in several colleges, including Daulat Ram, Hindu, Gargi, Miranda House and Dyal Singh.

History (H) too was closed in colleges like Gargi, Hindu, Ramjas and Miranda for general category students.