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How Maharashtra engineering admissions actually work

Eleven visualisations of patterns hidden in 119,000 official cutoff rows. No personalisation — these are universal truths about MHT CET. Want to see how it applies to you? Open your personal canvas →

Did you know? Patterns hidden in the data

Insights surfaced from year-over-year analysis. Each card surfaces a non-obvious truth about MHT CET that no competitor visualizes.

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Where do cutoffs actually cluster?

Pick a branch + category. See every Maharashtra college as a single bar in the histogram. The spread tells you whether 'good colleges' are scarce or abundant for your target.

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The 1:3:6 freeze rule, illustrated

Most Reddit confusion comes from this. Tap a round to see which positions in your preference list become 'freeze zones' — auto-locking your seat if allotted there.

Tap a round. The shaded rows are the freeze zone: if you're allotted any of them, your seat is auto-frozen and you can't try for a better one in later rounds.

Toy preference list — top 1 freeze in Round 11
  1. 1
    COEP Tech, Pune
    Computer Engineering
    FREEZE ZONE
  2. 2
    VJTI, Mumbai
    Computer Engineering
  3. 3
    PICT, Pune
    Computer Engineering
  4. 4
    VIIT, Pune
    Information Technology
  5. 5
    PCCOE, Pune
    Information Technology
  6. 6
    TSEC, Mumbai
    Computer Engineering
  7. 7
    DJSCE, Mumbai
    Information Technology
  8. 8
    MIT-WPU, Pune
    Computer Engineering
  9. 9
    WIT, Solapur
    Information Technology
  10. 10
    GCOE, Amravati
    Computer Engineering

The 1:3:6 rule. CAP auto-freezes you on the 1 highest-ranked option(s) you're allotted in Round 1. After Round 1, you cannot improve beyond your current allotment if it lands in this zone.

Practical implication — only put options in the top 1 that you'd be genuinely happy taking. Don't put a "stretch college I'd hate to commit to" at the very top in Round 1.

AI vs AI&ML vs AI&DS — basically the same?

Branches in the same family usually land within a few percentile points of each other for placements. Here's the actual cutoff overlap, by family.

Family:
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Branches with similar median cutoffs are functionally equivalent for placement outcomes. Pick by branch interest, not by 0.3 percentile differences in median.

How much 'lift' does your reservation give you?

Pick a branch. Each row = a category. Each column = a top-30 college. Colour shows how much lift that category gives over the GOPENS baseline. Bigger green = bigger advantage.

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If you can't get college X, where else has the same vibe?

Pick any college; we'll show its 5 closest peers by cutoff fingerprint as a radial graph. Closer to centre = more similar.

Pick a college above to see its 5 sister colleges by cutoff fingerprint.

Which branches have the most Spot Round vacancy?

Branches that drop hard from Round 1 to Round 3 tend to have late-round seats open up. This is a directional model — see the caveat below.

Model-derived; treat as directional, not predictive. We don't have real Spot Round data. These signals are inferred from how much a branch's cutoff typically drops between Round 1 and Round 3 in past years. Big drop = more late-round vacancy = stronger Spot Round odds.
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If you had your percentile in 2022 vs 2024…

Type a percentile, pick a year. See what colleges closed at that exact percentile that year. Builds intuition for cutoff volatility — and for trusting the predictor.

2024

What you'd have gotten at 92.00 percentile in 2024

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Note: The data table currently shows latest-round cutoffs only. A future enhancement will toggle to actual 2024-only data.

The full ranked spreadsheet (filter, sort, export)

Plain power-user table. Filter by branch, district, college type, percentile range. Sortable columns. Export the result as CSV.

Branch
District
College type
Cutoff between
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