Thank you to all those who applied to participate as Student Delegates at the National Constitution Society (NCS) Convention 2018.
We received more than 125 applications from across the country. After a rigorous screening process we are glad to announce that we have picked the following 31 students to be part of the Convention:
| Name | University |
| Bhagyashree Bagchi | Bethune College, University of Calcutta; Kolkata |
| Mozammil Ahmad | Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Muhammad Mahatab | CNLU; Patna |
| Wardah Beg | Faculty of Law Aligarh Muslim University; Aligarh |
| Anoushka Shetty | Government Law College; Mumbai |
| Saurabh Modi | Government Law College; Mumbai |
| Prasanna Aditya A | Hindu College, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Alina Anna Kose | His Highness Maharajas Government Law College; Ernakulam |
| Ravi Viwshwakarma | IISER-Kolkata; Kalyani |
| Akshat Bansal | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Mumbai |
| Amisha Pareek | Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Harshit Jain | Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi; New Delhi |
| Rithvik Mathur | NALSAR University of Law; Hyderabad |
| Akash Kumar | National Institute of Technology; Jamshedpur |
| Ishit Patel | NLSIU; Bengaluru |
| Prannv Dhawan | NLSIU; Bengaluru |
| Revathi Tushara Tapila | NLU; Odisha |
| Harshita Tripathi | NUJS; Kolkata |
| Amatya Agarwal | PES University; Bangalore |
| Soham Das | Presidency University; Kolkata |
| AnaghaS | Ramaiah Institute of Legal Studies; Bengaluru |
| Amith LM | School of Law, Christ University; Bengaluru |
| Anushka Madhukar | St. Joseph’s College; Bengaluru |
| Nikhita Thomas | St. Joseph’s College of Commerce; Bengaluru |
| Zohaib K. | St. Joseph’s College of Law; Bengaluru |
| Priyamvad Rai | Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce; Pune |
| Nikhil Reddy Kothakota | Symbiosis Law School; Hyderabad |
| Rikit Shahi | Symbiosis Law School; Hyderabad |
| Arvind Kavattur | Tamil Nadu National Law University; Tirucirapalli |
| Shradha Pandey | Tamil Nadu National Law University; Tirucirapalli |
| Gunjan Rathore | University Law College; Bengaluru |
Quantitative overview of applications
We are pleased to say we received a total of 124 applications, despite the packed examinations schedule in November. We accepted 32 applicants, making the acceptance rate for this year’s NCS Convention 25.81%.
Gender
47 applicants were female, meaning that 38% of our applicants were female. By comparison, 44% of our selected applicants are female.
Types of degrees
As expected, a majority of our applicants study law. 93 of our 124 applicants are pursuing law related degrees, such as BA LLBs, BBA LLBs and BLS LLBs.
Geography
We received a large number of applications from undergraduates studying in Bangalore. 25% of our applicants hailed from Bangalore. By comparison, we received the same number of applicants from Mumbai and New Delhi combined. 25.82% of our applicants hailed from either Mumbai or New Delhi. In the future, we hope to see more applications from outside Bangalore.
A majority of applicants hailed from the South and the North. 40% of applicants stemmed from the South and 28% of applicants stemmed from the North.
Note that we grouped the Centre with the West and the Northeast with the East.
Video Submission
Only 24 of our applicants submitted the optional video. In general, it appears that students who submitted videos had stronger applications overall. 19.35% of all applicants submitted videos. This percentage increased to 25.00% for selected applicants.
