NEET UG (Undergraduate) - Some Useful Links

For the year 2017, 

• 15% of all seats in a state are reserved for students of other states and my assumption is that students of a state (say TN) are not eligible for the 15% AIQ (All India Quota) for medical seats in TN. AIQ does not apply to medical colleges in Jammu Kashmir, AP, Telengana. All their seats will be available in their respective SQ only. See this link from Quora by Anjum Khan: Quote from there: "Furthermore, if particular XYZ college has 120 MBBS seats then, 85% of 120 seats i.e. 102 seats are for state domicile candidate and rest seats i.e. 18 seats are for All India students (candidates not resident of Kerala state)."
• 85% of all seats in the state are reserved for students of the state - SQ (State quota). For AAP,  Telengana and JK, 100% of the seats will be available for the respective state's students since there is zero AIQ for medical colleges in those three states. 

And within each quota (AIQ and SQ - I use AIQ and SQ frequently so make a note of what they mean), a good percentage is reserved for various castes. In this post we are only going to discuss the general quota for students not belonging to OBC, SC/ST etc.

https://www.toppr.com/bytes/neet-home-state-quota/: as per this link AIQ list will be announced first. And then individual states will announce their respective 85% seat allocations.

I assume a student will apply for both the AIQ (for other states only) and SQ (for his domiciled state only).

As per this link "students must understand that state of origin gets precedence over state of domicile while filling the application form. What it means is that if a student is originally from Andhra Pradesh but is a domicile of Gujarat, then in the column of state, the student is supposed to fill Andhra Pradesh." - What about Sindhis and Konkanis and Tulus? What is their origin? Karnataka for Tulus and Goa for Konkanis I guess. And for Sindhis? Hmm. And it becomes trickier. In some states, domicile is considered based on whether the student wrote the class 12 exam from that state. Other states look at whether his parents have a house there. So a student could be a domicile of both states BUT apparently it's illegal to apply to the SQ of more than one state. NOW, who is going to find out if I applied in TN and Assam? We will let deftly bypass these tricky questions.

A friend of mine sent me this link which seems to indicate that 3850 is the number of seats all over India available under AIQ. The link also gives the schedule for counseling for June and July 2017. 
As per this link, the total AIQ seats across India is about 2582 (and for TN it is 313 - I summed the figures for all colleges in TN in the table in the link). My guess is that the actual AIQ figure for 2017 would be somewhere between 3000 and 4000. Now, TN has 313 seats towards the 15% allocation and hence the SQ of 85% for TN will be 313/15% * 85% = 1773 seats.

About 50% of seats are available for general students (non backward ) in AIQ and about 25% seats are open/available for general students in SQ. 

AIQ for general (not backward) caste = 50% * 2582 = 1291 - assuming half the seats are available under general category or unreserved (UR)
SQ for general (not backward) caste =  25% * 1773 =   443 (assuming 25% available for UR)

Now let's consider 2 options

1. A student from TN gets AIR 1000 (which is less than 1291 seats available under AIQ) and state rank 40 and hence he gets the pick of his choice outside of his state. But if his pick is CMC Vellore, which is in Tamil Nadu, he won't be eligible under the AIQ. He has to wait for the SQ for admission into CMC. I assume in this case it makes sense for the student to apply both for the 15% AIQ (for other states) and for the 85% SQ. IF he hates to do medicine in his domiciled state he would apply only for the AIQ and not apply to SQ at all. The approximate seats available under AIQ and SQ are mentioned in italics above.
2. The student gets Rank All India Rank 10,000 and state rank 300. In this case he will not be eligible for the 15% AIQ since his rank is more than 1291. He can apply only to the medical colleges in his state. State wise merit or qualification marks data are here and here. I am assuming the student will get an intimation regarding counseling where he can "book his ticket on any state college of his choice" that currently has seats available.

Comments welcome. 


Additional reading:

• This is the list of students who got admission into all AIIMS in 2015: https://www.aiimsexams.org/pdf/Final%20list%20of%20MBBS-2015.pdf
• Estimated marks to get into top 25 colleges: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-cutoff-rank-in-NEET-for-the-top-25-medical-colleges
• http://www.neetfortn.in/2017/05/05/neet-2017-expected-india-tamil-nadu-cut-off-marks/