the general impression is that students have a less than 5 chance of getting admission into engineering with over five lakh candidates who took the iitjee in 2012 for 9600 seats and an estimated 12 lakh who plan to write the aieee for 35000 seats the chances do seem slim and same is the story for bitsat vellore it and manipal enat that coupled with over 50 odd entrance examinations make engineering one of the most competitive college admission in the country but is the admission scenario really that bleak there are 3393 engineering colleges in india with a capacity of 1485 lakh seats across 36 courses approved by all india council of technical education aicte so where is the catch there seems to be enough seats what happens however is that many candidates are not aware of their options as a result many miss out on alternatives this is true even of aieee scores which by far covers the largest number of seatsbesides iitjee a candidate aspiring for an engineering admission can obtain it through central counselling of all india engineering entrance examination aieee statelevel examinations that can be written by its domiciles aieee scores at institutions that accept them own examination and counselling of institutions or their associations marks obtained in class x and xii the central counselling of all india engineering entrance examination aieee this year the central board of secondary education conducted the aieee examination in both online and offline mode this year the offline examination was held on april 29 and the online examinations from may 7 to 26 this will be followed by a central counselling process for candidates who successfully meet the rank cutoffs the central counselling process will start on june 16 and end on august 8 the aieee rank card will give three types of ranks the all india rank the state rank category rank and notify the eligibility of the candidate for the central counselling these candidates become eligible for admission to the institutions participating in the central counselling these include all the 30 national institutes of technology some among the indian institutes of information technology indian institute of information technology and manufacturing and indian institutes of information technology design and manufacturing some government and governmentaided institutions and some private and selffinanced institutionshighlights of the process the online registration filling up of choices and choice locking will have to be done between june 16 and 25 there are three rounds of seat allotment on june 27 july 5 and july 12 respectively candidates will be allowed to modify their choices once again between july 17 and 22 classes will begin in the institutions participating in central counselling on july 23 the fourth round of seat allotment will be on july 25 candidates allotted seats in the fourth round can complete admission formalities at the respective institutions between july 25 and 30 internal sliding will be completed on august 1 during internal sliding students will get yet another