CBSE high-scorers hog degree seats at Mumbai’s blue-chip colleges

MUMBAI:The first score cutoff for degree colleges saw students from the CBSE board hogging the merit list in top city colleges.

Scores in minority institutes dipped marginally as reservation for backward category students was done away with, thus doubling the pool of seats available for open category candidates.

Cut-offs increased by about 2-4% in popular nonminority colleges, especially for unaided professional courses like BMS and BSc (IT). In blue-chip colleges like HR, Jai Hind, Mithibai and St Xavier’s, cut-offs fell by a few percent points but remained high as compared to 2017’s first admission list.

At Xavier’s College, to get into a BA programme required students to score a 98% and 92.46%, if candidates were from the HSC board.