On one hand, colleges are busy hosting welcome parties, conducting regular lectures and introducing children to the new campus with the commencement of the new academic year for the first year of junior college.

Indu Shahani, principal of H R College, Churchgate said that like every year, this year too, a vast number of students scored more than 85 per cent but could not make it to the top colleges, which has left them dejected. File pic for representation