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Clat 2014 rank and college
Dear Students on the Preference List, First things first. Congratulations!! On your spectacular performances, I know and fully realise that some of you may not be fully satisfied with your results. However, as you go through law school, you are likely to realise that whilst the law school might play some role, it does not play as decisive a role as your own performances. A detailed perspective on law school consequences will follow on Monday. For now, let us focus on the task at hand – Filling out the preference list. Let me start by a simple example. If a candidate “John Doe” has an All India Rank of 56 in the general category, then he will technically be waitlist 1 for NLSIU, Bangalore assuming that all other candidates in the top 55 have filled up NLSIU as their first preference. By the way, do you know the relevance of John Doe in the legal world? Google up John Doe cases. Now, let us assume John fills up NLSIU as his first preference and NALSAR as his second. Naturally, he will not be given NLSIU since that is filled up. But the people who are ranked below him and have opted for NALSAR are not going to get NALSAR above him. For example, there are 41 seats in NALSAR in the general category. Technically therefore if top 55 opted for NLSIU and Rank 57-92 opted for NALSAR, then our John at Rank 56 may lose out on the NALSAR seat. But that is not how this system works. There is no chance that Rank 92 will get a first shot at NALSAR above Rank 56 simply because he filled out the preference. By that evaluation, every single other law school also opted for by John even after NALSAR is likely to be filled out in terms of first preference and he may not get NLU Assam either if there are enough people up to Rank 2500 who opted for NLU Assam in the first preference or any preference above him. How, it seems to work is, Rank 1 is taken a look at, then he/she is allotted the seat in terms of the best seat possible in accordance with his/her preference. Then Rank 2 same thing and the series continues. So the best possible allocation for Rank 56 is done first and then the series moves to Rank 57. Therefore it is equally safe to simply fill out the general preference irrespective of your Rank. For example even if it is 1200.. Just Start with NLSIU, then NALSAR, then NUJS, then NLU, Jodhpur, then NLIU Bhopal, then GNLU, then HNLU, then RMLNLU, then RGNUL, then NLU Orissa, then NLU Ranchi, then CNLU, then NLU Assam, then NLU Chennai. Having said the above, if you still feel that you want to feel randomly safer then here is the rank-wise recommendation or should we say “Most Appropriate Preference List” 😛 Rank 1-63: NLSIU, NALSAR (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 64-115: NALSAR, NUJS (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 116-230: NUJS, NLU, Jodhpur (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 231-340: NLU, Jodhpur, NLIU, Bhopal (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 341-375: NLIU, Bhopal, GNLU, HNLU (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 376-480: GNLU, HNLU, RMLNLU (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 481-600: HNLU, RMLNLU, RGNUL (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 601-800: RMLNLU, RGNUL, NLU, Ranchi (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!) Rank 801-930: RGNUL, NLU, Ranchi, NLU Orissa (Rest is irrelevant! Feel free!)
