IIT admissions: IIT Bombay emerges first for the top rankers

The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT Bombay) has emerged as the first choice for the candidates in the top 2,000 ranking list of the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced 2015 (JEE Advanced 2015).
With around 23 percent of top rankers, opting for IIT-Bombay, it has turned out to be the most preferred campus among all the 18 IITs as well as the Indian School of Mines Dhanbad (ISM Dhanbad).
While IIT Delhi has received 332 candidates among the top 2,000, IIT Bombay is on the top with 456 out of the total. Next in line is IIT Kanpur with 251, followed by IIT Kharagpur with 249 seats. A mere 11 students among the top 2,000 will be joining IIT Ropar; 15 at IIT Indore and one each at IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Mandi. IIT-Bhubaneswar, IIT-Patna, IIT-Jodhpur, IIT-Palakkad and IIT-Tirupati received no seats among the toppers.

Meanwhile, the elite group of institutions are now likely to lower the bar for admissions in order to include people from the weaker strata of the society. The IITs will now be admitting students with scores as low as 31 out of 504, or with a percentage of 6.1 so as to fill vacant seats.
The joint admission process for the premier institutes is being conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2015 (JoSAA 2015). The seat acceptance for Round 2 began on July 14 and will end on July 17.