Students thronged college corridors and around the Delhi University campus on Tuesday morning as the university announced its second cut off list. For a number of them though, the objective was to cancel the admission that they had taken earlier and now join a college of their choice.

Although the dip in the cut off marks has been a trivial, 0.5-3%, for the more popular courses, students who had missed the mark by a whisker in the first list were excited.

For example, popular courses in popular colleges like BCom (Honours) in the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and BA Economics (Honours) in Hansraj College are still open for admission. The cut offs for the two courses have dipped by two percent.

Ashwini Dey, a student, said that she missed the cut off mark in SRCC by just 0.5% after the first cut off list was announced. Not wanting to take a risk, she took admission in another college. Now she would withdraw her admission and get admission in the college of her choice.

Rakesh Jain, who took admission in BCom because he did not meet the cut off for economics in the first list, has now decided to withdraw his admission and take a new in the subject of his choice.

The trend is similar for science courses, although the more popular colleges like Hindu have closed their admission in physics and have let the cut off for chemistry remain same as the first cut off list.

Delhi University this year has increased the number of seats by 7,000, taking the total number of seats for admission to 49,000.