<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/52984582.cms" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" />The DU-Cut off list is out; and it has set the tone of a tough DU admission race. None of the <keyword id="6360099" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-University">Delhi University</keyword> colleges have kept the ceiling at 100 per cent in their first cut-off list for admission to undergraduate courses. 
 
This is not to say that the cut-offs are low this time, they have just recorded a slight dip from last year. 
 
This is what the first cut-off list looks like: 
 <img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/52984462.cms" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /> The highest cut-off for the academic session has been announced by <keyword id="6479792" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ramjas-College">Ramjas college</keyword> at 99.25 per cent for BCom Honours, 98.75 for BCom and 98.5 for Economics Honours. 
 The cut-off for <keyword id="6417880" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="hansraj-college">Hansraj College</keyword> has remained unchanged across stream with Eco(H) being the highest at 98 per cent. 
 
Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), ranked among the best in the country for higher studies in Commerce and Economics, announced its cut off at 98.25 per cent for Economics Honours and 98 per cent for BCom Honours. 
 
Miranda House cutoff for science courses is also same as last year with the highest being for Economics Honours at 97.75 per cent. 
 
Lady Sri Ram College has announced its cut-off for Psychology at (98.50 pc), English (98.25 pc), Economics (98 pc) and Commerce (H) (98pc). 
 
 
Why taking admission in the first list is VERY important 
You may not get the course or college of your choice, but not taking admission in the first list and waiting for the second list is a risk not worth taking. 
 
If you get a college and a course of your choice, there’s nothing like it! However, if you are facing a tricky situation like you can get admission in a course of her choice but not in a college you want to study in, the best bet is to still go ahead! 
 
This is because of two reasons: One that university counselors for years have been saying that students should always opt for course over college because even as there is difference in faculty of various colleges, picking a course over a college will give you an opportunity to study something that you are interested in. If you are considering the reputation of a college, it is only going to help you make an impression for three years and is not a long term benefitting approach. Notably, all colleges in DU follow the same curriculum and teachers are selected based on the same criteria. 
 
Secondly, all DU colleges follow a policy where applicants who were eligible but did not take admission under the first list in a particular college, will not be given consideration in the second cutoff list unless they have seats left. That means if in the second cut off list you do not get a lucrative option, and want to go back to the option in the first cut-off list, there are high chances that it may not be possible. However, if you take admission in a course you are eligible in in the first list, and make it to a college of your choice with the desired course in the second list, it’s a win-win situation because then you can go to the college, make sure you are eligible and then withdraw admission from the first college. 
 
When do you choose a college over course 
The only case in which you should choose a college over a course is of you are totally unsure about the course you want to pursue. 
 
When nothing seems to be working out, this will! 
There are five cut-off lists in total and with each list, the chances of making it to a DU college improves. However, if luck is not in your favour, there’s no reason for you to worry. You can apply to the School of Open Learning as a back-up which has BA (honours) Political Science, English and B Com, BA Programme and BA Programme courses. The admission application process hasn’t started yet, so keep your eyes out on this one!

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<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/49241662.cms" />Companies and startups are ready to raid engineering and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=B-school+">B-school</a> campuses across India this placement season, adding to the fierce war for talent already raging between large e-Commerce companies and established old-world recruiters. 
 
The startups which are looking for fresh talents include ShopClues, LocalOye, Urban-Clap, PropTiger, Indus Insights, MyRefers, CodeNation, Embibe, Jombay, Lybrate and ShadowFax. 
 
Moreover, a survey of 11 startups suggests they will step up overall <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=campus+hiring+">campus hiring</a> to 770 students from the Class of 2016 compared with only 250 that they hired from the last batch. 
 
Bulk of this hiring will be across top engineering colleges and B-schools, including Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management. 
 
Don’t be disappointed if you are not studying in the above mentioned institutes as a handful will also recruit at leading undergraduate colleges including Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri Ram College and St Stephen's, and design schools such as National Institute of Design and National Institute of Fashion Technology. 
 
Now comes the most interesting part- salary! Average salaries offered by these startups range between Rs 12 lakh and Rs 18 lakh at engineering colleges and B-schools, say campus sources. Prop-Tiger, for instance, is paying upwards of Rs 15 lakh plus benefits at tech schools; CodeNation will pay around Rs 24 lakh. 
 
At least three of these startups — Lybrate, LocalOye and ShadowFax — are first-timers on campus while others, at the very least, are doubling last year's numbers. In some cases, hiring targets are going up five-fold or even 16-fold compared with last year. 
 
The strategies behind the hiring are discussed below: 
1. Depending on the kind of institutes, students are being hired for a variety of roles: from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=software+development+engineers">software development engineers</a>; core management &amp; data scientists; product, operations and marketing; merchant acquisition and servicing, to human resource management, product and graphic designers and even entrepreneurs in residence. Sanjay Mehta, a Mumbai-based angel investor who participated in and led 11 angel deals in 2015, says the reason why startups are so gung-ho about <keyword id="511161" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="campus-hiring">campus hiring</keyword> is because they want to put this talent to work on cutting-edge technology and new delivery models. Not surprisingly, several institutes where placements have started, including Birla Institute of Technology &amp; Science-Pilani and <keyword id="75110" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="NITs">NITs</keyword>, are seeing these startups go head-to-head with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=traditional+recruiters+">traditional recruiters</a> to hire talent. At other B-schools and <keyword id="49737" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IITs">IITs</keyword> where pre-placement offers (PPOs) have started flowing in, it is again the startups that are leading the pack. 
 
2. Much high in numbers: The numbers speak for themselves. If ShopClues is revising its hiring intake from around 100 last year to 180-250 this time, realty portal PropTiger is doubling its target to 50. Even five-month-old B2B (business-to-business) hyperlocal delivery startup ShadowFax, which raised $300,000 from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Snapdeal">Snapdeal</a>'s founders and others in August followed by a $8.5-million Series A round by Fidelity's proprietary investment arm Eight Roads Ventures barely a month later, is looking to hire from IITs, <keyword id="46923" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIMs">IIMs</keyword> and other leading management institutes for its technology, data science and operations teams. 
 
3. Tapping more institutes: In the process, these companies are reaching out to many more institutes this year. "If there is a campus that attracts bright minds of the country, we want to be there. This includes other engineering colleges as well as top colleges in economics and commerce," says Saurabh Sharma, founder &amp; chief executive officer of Indus Insights. The Big Data firm made 40 offers last year, mostly at the top IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Madras). This year, it plans to make 100-plus, including at NITs (Trichy, Warangal, etc), SRCC, LSR, Christ College and Indian School of Business. 
 Similarly, Delhi-based mobile services marketplace UrbanClap, which hired 30 business development and operations specialists from <keyword id="6360099" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Delhi-University">Delhi University</keyword> last year, is extending its reach to several new institutes, including <keyword id="6431668" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT-Delhi">IIT-Delhi</keyword> and IIM-Ahmedabad as it gears up to take on 80-100 this year. 
 
Salaries apart, the other drawing factors include the opportunity to work on challenging problems. "We don't have any glass ceilings. Freshers could be running entire teams within six months of joining," says Aditi Avasthi, founder and CEO, Embibe. "Students are opting for startups aggressively as some of the roles offered by them are quite challenging and inclined with their aspirations," sums up Rahul Katyal, placement manager at IIT-Bombay. 
 
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