Of the 1.75 lakh students who applied for admission to First Year Junior College (FYJC) or Std 11 in Mumbai, 73,438 have been allotted seats in the second merit list, which was announced on Wednesday. There were a total of 1.93 lakh vacancies across streams in FYJC for this round. In the first round, out of 2.28 lakh applicants, 1.3 lakh students were allotted seats.

According to the second-round report from the office of the deputy director of the school education department, 20,030 candidates secured seats in their first-choice colleges. These students must confirm their admission; otherwise, they will be excluded from the subsequent rounds. Additionally, 13,469 students were allotted seats in their second-choice colleges and 1,088 in their third-choice colleges.