Overview
- The CET Cell published third-round CAP lists on Aug 25–26, offering 3,756 fresh Direct Second Year BE/BTech seats and 1,208 Direct Second Year Pharmacy opportunities.
- In engineering, 3,790 students had their seats auto-frozen and 20,127 opted for betterment while in pharmacy 941 allotments were auto-frozen.
- Allotted students must report, submit documents and pay fees within short windows—engineering by Aug 26–28 and pharmacy by Aug 27–29—to confirm admission.
- Rejecting an auto-frozen seat bars a candidate from the fourth CAP round and pushes them into later institutional-level admissions instead.
- The third-round considered far fewer applicants than those who registered—70,038 engineering merit-list registrants but 36,803 who filled preferences—so provisional vacant-seat lists on Aug 29 (engineering) and Aug 30 (pharmacy) will determine who can compete in round four and which colleges still have openings.