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In a letter to St Stephen’s principal John Varghese on Monday, DU Registrar Vikas Gupta argued that adding a score based on an interview to the score which has already been obtained through a standardised statistically robust procedure — CUET-UG — will ”eventually lead to discrimination”.
He also asserted that prolonging the discussion on the admission matter will be ”antithetic to the smooth and timely conduct of admissions.” Gupta contended that CUET will provide a level playing field to all applicants and merit shall be prepared for all applicants based on ”standardised, equitable, fair, transparent, nationalised common entrance examination i.e. CUET-UG”.
”Adding a score based on an interview to the score which has already been obtained through a standardised statistically robust procedure i.e., CUET-UG would introduce subjectivity in the admission process and eventually lead to discrimination, which is not desirable,” the registrar noted in the letter. ”It is expected that the college aligns its admission procedure with the admission policy of the University thus respecting the decision of the larger bench of the Supreme Court,” the registrar said in the letter.
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On May 9, the DU had written to the college, asking it to conduct admissions to the unreserved seats solely based on CUET scores.
However, in an admission notice posted on its website last month, the college said it would give 85 per cent weightage to CUET scores and 15 per cent to interviews for all categories of students.
The college also said it reserves the right to proceed with admissions in accordance with its own admission policy guaranteed to it as a minority institution.