New Delhi, July 21 -- As many as 81,979 candidates accepted the undergraduate seats allotted to them by the University of Delhi on Saturday, the last day for accepting seats under the first allocation list of the CSAS. Out of 93,033 seats allotted in the first round this year, that puts the acceptance rate at roughly 88%, a sharp jump from last year, when 72,659 out of 93,166 allotted seats were accepted, a rate of about 78%. We asked a few of this year's aspirants what's driving the faster, higher response.

Better safe than sorry

Kaiwalya Sulekh who has been allotted B.Sc. Programme in Physical Science with Chemistry at Kirori Mal College (KMC), says, "With cutoffs being this competitive, if you get a course and college you're happy wi...