new delhi the delhi university has added a new tab on its admission website to provide realtime instantaneous data and information of the programmes and college preferences that the candidates are opting for the new tab collegeprogram wise preference count will help candidates see how many aspirants have opted for a particular programme in a college the tab also displays that the data is updated every two hours the university in a statement said the new feature is available on the dashboard of the candidates as well as on the admission website and it will help the candidates seeking admission to the varsity the varsity officials have also raised concerns over candidates not adequately optimising the provisions of available preferences offered to them by the university while providing their preferences the candidates are opting for far less number of choices despite being eligible for many such choices for example if a candidate has been provided with 1469 programme plus college preferences by the university heshe must select all the combinations to benefit maximally from the allocation rounds the statement said on september 26 the university commenced the second phase of the admission process for undergraduate programmes to allow candidates to choose their programme and college combination preferences phase i which started on september 12 and phase ii will remain open till october 10 the common university entrance test cuet scores will also be required in both phases it must be noted that the phase i and phase ii of common seat allocation system csas will autolock the preferences saved by the candidate on october 10 2022 at 0459 pm the university mentioned the university launched an online platform for seeking admission through csas2022 last month the admission process which began on september 12 is being conducted in three phases the first phase is to apply to the university the second phase is preference filling and the third phase is seat allotmentcumadmission