I spent a long time hunting for an account of a counselling session but couldnt find any so here is my account of counselling at VIT.
Morning 9am everyone turns up at their auditorium and are seated. A projector hooked up to a laptop projects a continou and live feed of the number of seats available in all branches. There is a team of Proffs from every department and the chief hostel warden to answer any queries you may have regarding the institute or any course. The candidates/students have to register themselves i.e. sign their attendance and then they are given 3 sheets to fill up about their biodata and marks and an undertaking for good behaviour. After that, they have a preliminary medical checkup which is basically a recording of your height and weight.
After that, students are called in batches of around 150-200 ranks and are taken to another smaller auditorium (airconditioned) where their marksheets and other documents are verified.
Then, in smaller batches of 6 or so, they are taken to the next AC rom where two questions are asked. The first being the more important one is the same secret question that you have to answer correctly to proced to any of the above auditoriums. The question is "DD hai?" and the correct answer is YES. The only other question he will ask you is What branch do you want?
After branch allotment and submision of the DD, i was given a reciept and a provisional admission letter and sent for another medical checkup, which comprised of basically a blood test, urine test and record of BP and an interview session with one of their doctors at the Health Centre who will ask you about allergies etc, if any.
Then, it took us another 3 hours of standing in line to advance book a hostel and we were done.
A reminder was given to be sure to pay the balance fees by so and so date and thats it.
With this ends the counselling. The counselling process itself is a piece of cake, its the long waiting that is very exhausting. However kudos to VIT for making almost all of it a very smooth process.
