New Delhi: Students rushed through college corridors and around the Delhi University (DU) campus on Tuesday morning as the varsity announced its second cut off list. For a number of them though, the aim 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 marginal - 0.5 to three percent - for the more popular courses, students who had missed the mark by a whisker in the first list were an excited lot.

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For instance, popular courses in popular colleges like B.Com (Honours) in the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and B.A. 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: "I missed the cut off mark in SRCC by just 0.5 percent after the first cut off list was announced. I was so disappointed but not wanting to take a risk, I took admission in another college."

"Now I am going to withdraw my admission and get admitted in the college of my choice," she added excitedly.

Rakesh Jain, who took admission in B.Com 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 cut offs have hardly dropped, two of my friends who decided not to take admission anywhere and wait for the second list to take admission in B.Com (honours) have now realised that they haven't still made it anywhere," Jain said.

"In fact, if they would have taken admission earier they could have got admission in B.Com in a decent college. Now admissions in most of the good colleges are either closed or there is just a marginal dip. Thank god I didn't make the same mistake," he said.

For the science courses the trend is similar, 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 7,000 more seats, taking the total number of seats for admission to 49,000. IANS