Thank you to all those who applied to be Student Delegates at the National Constitution Society(NCS) Convention 2018.
Congratulations to the 32 of you who were selected:
| Name | University |
| Bhagyashree Bagchi | Bethune College; Kolkata |
| Rohan Mehrotra | BITS Pilani Goa Campus: Sancoale, Goa |
| Mozammil Ahmad | Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Muhammad Mahatab | CNLU; Patna |
| Wardah Beg | Faculty of Law Aligarh Muslim University; Aligarh |
| Anoushka Shetty | Government Law College; Mumbai |
| Saurabh Modi | Government Law College; Mumbai, |
| Prasanna Aditya A | Hindu College, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Alina Anna Kose | His Highness Maharajas Government Law College; Ernakulam |
| Ravi Viwshwakarma | IISER; Kolkata |
| Akshat Bansal | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Mumbai |
| Amisha Pareek | Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Harshit Jain | Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Komal Arcot | Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Manipal |
| Rithvik Mathur | NALSAR University of Law; Hyderabad |
| Akash Kumar | National Institute of Technology; Jamshedpur |
| Ishit Patel | NLSIU; Bangalore |
| Prannv Dhawan | NLSIU; Bangalore |
| Revathi Tushara Tapila | NLU Odisha; Cuttack |
| Harshita Tripathi | NUJS; Kolkata |
| Amatya Agarwal | PES University; Bangalore |
| Soham Das | Presidency University; Kolkata |
| Pratik Samajpati | Rajiv Gandhi NUL; Patiala |
| AnaghaS | Ramaiah Institute of Legal Studies; Bangalore |
| Amith LM | School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be a University); Bangalore |
| Anushka Madhukar | St. Joseph’s College; Bangalore |
| Nikhita Thomas | St. Joseph’s College of Commerce; Bangalore |
| Priyamvad Rai | Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce; Pune |
| Nikhil Reddy Kothakota | Symbiosis Law School; Hyderabad |
| Rikit Shahi | Symbiosis Law School; Hyderabad |
| Gunjan Rathore | University Law College; Bangalore |
| Harika Chinduluri | University of Mysore, School of Law; Mysore |
Quantitative overview of applications:
We are pleased to say we received a total of 124 applications, despite the packed examinations schedule in November. We accepted 32 applicants, making the acceptance rate for this year’s NCS Convention 25.81%.
Gender:
47 applicants were female, meaning that 38% of our applicants were female. By comparison, 44% of our selected applicants are female.
Types of degrees:
As expected, a majority of our applicants study law. 93 of our 124 applicants are pursuing law related degrees, such as BA LLBs, BBA LLBs and BLS LLBs.
Geography:
We received a large number of applications from undergraduates studying in Bangalore. 25% of our applicants hailed from Bangalore. By comparison, we received fewer applicants from Mumbai and New Delhi combined. 19.35% of our applicants hailed from either Mumbai or New Delhi. In the future, we hope to see more applications from outside Bangalore.
A majority of applicants hailed from the South and the North. 40% of applicants stemmed from the South and 31% of applicants stemmed from the North.
Note that we grouped the Centre with the West and the Northeast with the East.
Video Submission
Only 24 of our applicants submitted the optional video. In general, it appears that students who submitted videos had stronger applications overall. 19.35% of all applicants submitted videos. This percentage increased to 25.00% for selected applicants.