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Counseling at IIT Delhi

Before I go ahead, I’d like to tell you guys that I had got a rank of 6512 in the IIT JEE 2008, and therefore got a call for the counseling. However, the seat allotment results were declared on 30th June, 2008, and luckily enough, I wasn’t allotted any seat as per my preference sheet.

The counseling was on 21st June, 2008 at the IIT Delhi campus. The venue was Dogra Hall. I arrived at the venue at around 9 am, and on entering Dogra Hall, I was given 4 documents/sheets.

• A sticker sheet with 4 stickers for address slips.
• A foil for the draft of Rs. 15,000 that I had to deposit at the accounts section.
• A brochure for the newly inaugurated IIT Hyderabad.
• A white sheet with instructions printed on one side, and a rank vs. table matrix printed on the other side

We filled up the forms, and took a seat inside the already packed Dogra Hall.

A guy on the stage started babbling the instructions for the counseling. The one hour speech he gave boils down to this -

When your rank is called out, move your ass along with your documents to the stage. After that, move your silly ass to the seminar hall downstairs.

If you still don’t believe me, then you can read the instructions for yourself.

After that, all was simple. I went on the stage where a grumpy old IIT professor checked my original documents. He me asked me to sign somewhere, and then gave me a slip. I took the slip and moved to the seminar hall.

At the seminar hall, we were given 2 print-out copies of our preference choice sheet, along with the original, which we had earlier submitted upstairs. We had to check if the print out was correct or not. After that, we had to sign them and give it back to them. They took the choice sheets, stamped them, and returned one of the copies to us as a counterfoil of our application submission. We were then asked to go home, relax, and wait for the result to be put up online on the website.

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