57 secure admission in colleges outside Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: Dhyani Patel did not participate in the choice filling round carried out by the Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate & Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC) for securing admission in medical colleges of Gujarat.
For Patel, who scored 685 marks out of 720 in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) – 2020, has an All India Ranking (AIR) of 479.Instead of any college in Gujarat, he has chosen to take admission at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, one of the most premier medical colleges in the country.
“I was getting admission at B J Medical College in Ahmedabad but then I decided to visit the AIIMS Jodhpur campus. I liked the campus and infrastructure facilities there and after speaking to some of the professors there, I made up my mind to study there,” said Patel.
There are about 56 other candidates like Patel, who have sought admission in some of the premier medical colleges outside Gujarat due to their solid performance in the NEET exams.
“There are 57 candidates from Gujarat who made it to the top 500 AIRs in NEET and have not participated in the choice filling exercise for the colleges in Gujarat. This is much higher than last year when 35 candidates did not participate in the admission process,” said an official of the ACPUGMEC.
These 57 candidates have sought admission in some of the top colleges of the country including AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Bhopal, AIIMS Patna, Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), Delhi and King Edward Memorial (KME) College, Mumbai, among others.
Karma Patel, who scored 700 marks with an AIR of 83, said he was in a position to secure admission in any medical college of the country except AIIMS Delhi considered as the number one medical college of the country. Patel has opted for MAMC, Delhi. “I selected the college keeping in mind my post graduate studies. I will be the first in my family to become a doctor,” said Patel.
Prince Prajapati, who scored 691 marks with AIR of 218, saw his dream of securing admission in the country’s top college of AIIMS Delhi being fulfilled. He said the facilities and the academic exposure at this college is believed to be much higher and wider than other medical colleges in the country.
Maurya Patel could not get admission in Delhi so he opted for KME, Mumbai in the second round of admission.