ahmedabad after the first round of allocation of seats for the degree engineering courses every second seat was found remaining vacant of the 65212 seats with the admission committee for professional courses 35460 seats had no takersamong the students who took admission computer was the top choice with information technology and information and communication technology being the next favourites this was the third year for computer technology to be marked as top choice of students mechanical engineering which was once the most favoured branch came fourth in drawing students for admissionof the 137 engineering colleges in the state only 17 colleges managed to fill up 100 their seats three colleges did not get even a single student there are 34 colleges which could fill 10 of their seates in 19 colleges only 1025 seats were filled and 35 colleges managed to fill 2650 of their intakeacpc officials said that a total of 33271 students were included in the merit list of which 31436 have given their choices only 29753 got admissions in the first year degree engineering courses the remaining 1683 students did not get admission as their marks did not match their college preferencesmanek nidhi the merit list topper has taken admission in dhirubhai ambani institute of information and communication technology officials said that of the 13479 seats in government and grantinaid engineering colleges only 11295 seats had been filled a total of 2184 seats remained vacant in these collegesin the selffinanced category 32276 seats of the 51733 seats that were with the acpc have remained vacant students who succeeded in the first round can now take the information letter along with the bank challan from the acpc website and pay the token fee and confirm their admissionfor the first time the admission committee introduced reservation for economically weaker section ews a total 6164 seats were offered for admission in which 1818 students were allotted seats while the remaining seats were vacant