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Online forms don`t click with Delhi students: Hindustan Times
New Delhi, June 06: Teenagers in Delhi who have to be torn away from their computers are surprisingly reluctant to apply for college courses online.
New Delhi, June 06: Teenagers in Delhi who have to be torn away from their computers are surprisingly reluctant to apply for college courses online.
Though a large number of DU colleges offer the facility of applying online — you can beat the heat and the commute if you apply from home or the neighbourhood cyber cafe — few students have taken the option.
In the past two days, Daulat Ram College has received 58 applications online; Hans Raj, 70; and Hindu College, 102. PGDAV College has received just 14 applications, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, 18. Sri Venkateswara did slightly better with 287 online submissions.
In contrast, these colleges received thousands of applications the regular way over the same period.
According to www.admissionhelp.com, 2,800 students who filled up college admission forms on the site, backed out when the submit/pay icon popped up. Clearly, they weren’t comfortable revealing their credit card number or simply didn’t have plastic.
But the Kirori Mal College (KMC) website, which doesn’t charge application fee, has over the past two days totted up 1,100 applications — almost 12 per cent of its total 8,900 applications over the same period.
Students and parents are also unsure about the Net’s reliability. KMC admissions in-charge Seema Parihar cites the example of a person who came from Jaipur last year to check whether the college had received his son’s online application form.
Though a large number of DU colleges offer the facility of applying online — you can beat the heat and the commute if you apply from home or the neighbourhood cyber cafe — few students have taken the option.
In the past two days, Daulat Ram College has received 58 applications online; Hans Raj, 70; and Hindu College, 102. PGDAV College has received just 14 applications, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, 18. Sri Venkateswara did slightly better with 287 online submissions.
In contrast, these colleges received thousands of applications the regular way over the same period.
According to www.admissionhelp.com, 2,800 students who filled up college admission forms on the site, backed out when the submit/pay icon popped up. Clearly, they weren’t comfortable revealing their credit card number or simply didn’t have plastic.
But the Kirori Mal College (KMC) website, which doesn’t charge application fee, has over the past two days totted up 1,100 applications — almost 12 per cent of its total 8,900 applications over the same period.
Students and parents are also unsure about the Net’s reliability. KMC admissions in-charge Seema Parihar cites the example of a person who came from Jaipur last year to check whether the college had received his son’s online application form.