Admissions through Management Quota in Colleges In Tamil Nadu

When I was seeking admissions for my son who did his schooling from a CBSE school, one thing was clear- that he would stand no chance in getting a seat into Anna University through the single window counselling for the branch he wanted in the top few colleges of Tamil Nadu.
This took me to exploring the college admissions done through management quota- and I thought I should share my knowledge to the parents who are surfing the net like I did.

These are mostly the Private colleges which are striving to out beat each other by various strategies.
I will cover the three colleges which I approached..
SSN
SVCE, Sriperambathur
RMK

SSN is very straight forward and very secretive. One needs to approach the office at Mylapore for the details. But the staff there are very co operative and answer all the questions raised, individually to each and every one. Nothing regarding admission through this quota is available on the website.
The institute admits students purely through merit in all its three categories: Sports/ NRI/ Others
The forms for the management quota is usually given after the final exams and the date of submission is after the results are announced. Students can apply under one of the above category only, meaning only one form per candidate is allowed.
After submission of the form, the call letter for counselling is intimated through post, only for the candidates selected from the lot and it is based on the merit list. However the college allots 5 marks as grace for students of CBSE. But this does not guarantee a seat in the college.
The counselling process is for a whole day at the college campus - with an online exam and a personal interview. It is done in 3 sessions for 2-3 days hence one will understand that the selection is done in a fair manner.
The results are however announced after 10 days which leaves many students enrolling in other deemed colleges where they have already paid the initial fee during the counselling and would have to pay the remaining amount which is partially refundable before the results announced.

SVCE - The process is very simple. A form has to be obtained during Jan/Feb and submitted before the said date. The information is passed telephonic ally about the date when the parent has to meet the management, this usually falls during the board exams, so we can keep the whole process a hush hush from our children. The slot for the meeting is based on the branch one is seeking for and the marks the student obtained during the 10th exams. The rest is like a usual management seat quota where one is told about the amount to be made through cheque to a given organisation, etc..
The amount varies from branch to branch and its a no installment no deduction basis. Once the payment is done in full the seat is confirmed irrespective of the marks obtained by the student in the boards , only a pass certificate is needed.

RMK - Though I did not personally approach this institution, the process was similar with the payment of the amount to seek admission. Both these colleges wanted the payment to be made before the announcement of the results which put many parents in a fix. One is not given the option to back out even if the child fairs good in other entrance test, and there is no refund of the money once paid... and the amount is nothing small.

Hope it was of some use...

Happy admission seeking...
I stood confused and muddled up last year..
Now its your turn..

The TNEA Stats

With the results of all the board been declared the below table is  a summary of what the students of different boards can analyse when seeking admission into colleges through the single window counselling of the state counselling board for admissions into Anna University colleges in Tamil Nadu Tamilnadu Engineering Cut-off Mark Trend Analysis 2005 - 2012 Mat. Phy. Che. (MPC) Cut-off marks Difference in 1 Mark 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 200 192 3 22 36 44 31 120 35 199-199.25 1325 95 282 631 707 578 1042 688 198 - 198.25 1815 235 436 907 1117 1045 1522 1198 197 - 197.25 1915 336 585 1117 1374 1216 1547 1596 196 - 196.25 1828 446 700 1133 1417 1392 1553 1683 195 - 195.25 1760 520 798 1166 1496 1390 1624 1726 195 - 200 8835 1635 2823 4990 6155 5652 7408 6926

This years CBSE topper Sanjay Ganapathy of Bhavans School, Chennai secured centum in Mathematics and Physics, 97 in Chemistry, 98 in computer Science and 95 in English which makes his cutoff at 198.5/200 for the Tamil Nadu Engineering counselling, but as he has cleared the IITJEE with a rank of 194 prefers to join IIT M. A wise decision indeed as he would be getting a rank of 900-1000 in the TNEA rank list.

More over the state counselling is tentatively to commence on the 13 July'12 this year and by which time the NITs , deemed colleges and IITs would have finished their counselling. This clearly states that the Tamil Nadu state prefers the students who were left behind in the race from CBSE boards to seek admission in their colleges.
The state has about 550 odd colleges for BE/B Tech and every year thousands of seats remain vacant. Last year about 40000 seats were unoccupied and this year it is estimated that about 25000 seats will go vacant. Wonder why the state is yielding to quantity over quality in graduating engineers ? instead would'nt it be wiser to close down a few colleges and provide quality professionals.. to our country.