DU admission: St. Stephen's sets steep 98 per cent cutoff

New Delhi: The cutoff for the four-year undergraduate economics (with commerce background) programme in Delhi University's St. Stephen's College this year is a staggering 98 per cent, according to the figures college released here on Friday.

On an average, there is a minimum one per cent rise in the cutoff percentage to 95 per cent for almost all the courses offered by the college.

"The cutoff is determined on the basis of the marks of the applicants. This time, the board results have been good. Thus, the cutoff is also high," St. Stephen's spokesperson Karen Gabriel.

At 94 per cent, the cutoff for the four-year undergraduate mathematics course for general category students is almost three per cent higher than last year.

For undergraduate programmes in English and History, the rise in the cutoff is 0.5-1 per cent higher than last year at 95.25 per cent and 94.5 per cent.

Similarly, the cutoff for subjects like physics and chemistry is at 96 per cent for general category students.

The only subject for which there has been no change in the cutoff is Sanskrit, which remains at 65 per cent.

The college gives 85 per cent weightage to the marks scored by aspirants in their Class 12 exams. Those who make it to the cutoff list are then called for an interview, which carries 15 per cent weightage in the admission process.

St. Stephen's reserves 50 per cent of its seats for Christian candidates, 8.5 per cent for students belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, 1.5 percent for differently-abled candidates, while the remaining 40 per cent of seats are for general category students.

The college has received around 25,700 applications this year for 410 seats.