Selection of a seat by a candidate and admission thereafter at the COMEDK Centralized Counseling shall comprise of the following stages:

• Verification of the Original documents and Demand Draft
• Registration of the candidates
• Exercising the option by candidates which involves selection of seats in accordance with the order of merit.
• Remittance of Fees in the form of Demand Draft
• Issue of Allotment letters

First Round of seat selection: The candidates will be allowed to exercise their option and select a seat strictly in the order of merit. A day is divided into six sessions and the first session begins at 8:00AM. The candidate will be allowed to participate in accordance with the notified time schedule and as per the stipulated rank ranges only, as per the schedule under Appendix I. The candidates are required to get the documents verified and later to register themselves only after Biometric, Signature and Photo Identification.

Biometric verification, photo verification and signature verification will be made and therefore the candidate is required to be present compulsorily for seat selection process. Only one person (parent, guardian or spouse) can accompany the candidate for the entire counseling process.

Note: Use of Cell Phone / Laptops is strictly prohibited inside the Counseling Venue.

The entire seat selection process in the COMEDK is controlled by a computer system right from the stage of registration till the stage of printing of Allotment letter. The highly sophisticated software used in the system has the ability to control the initial registration, provide data for verification of the original documents and to take care of the selection of the seats by the candidates in the order of merit, payment of fees and finally printing of Provisional / Confirmed Allotment letter. A merit list is generated for each of the session once the candidate comes to the seat selection by registering and verifying the documents, order of merit cannot be changed as it is computerized. A candidate who has the better rank gets the opportunity to select a seat. A dynamic screen will show course-wise and college-wise availability of seats, which helps the candidates to make up their mind in advance. The moment the option is exercised, the computer will show one seat less against the course/college from which the candidate has selected the seat. The candidate needs to submit all the original documents then he / she will be given a confirmed letter of offer for the particular college/course along with the details of payment to be made by the candidate. The candidate then will go to the bank counter & deposit the same along with the Demand Draft for prescribed annual tuition fee. After this the candidate will be given a Confirmed Allotment Letter that he / she have to submit to the college allotted at the time of admission. If the candidate fails to submit the Original documents instead submits the acknowledgement received from any other organization where he/she is allotted a seat, will be given a provisional letter of offer for the particular college/course along with the details of payment to be made by the candidate. The candidate then will go to the bank counter & deposit the same along with the Demand Draft for prescribed annual tuition fee. After this the candidate will be given a Provisional Allotment Letter with an indication that it is not valid for admission. If such a candidate does not submit all the original documents along with the Provisional Allotment Letter and gets the Confirmed Allotment Letter on or before Date, he / she is deemed to have forfeited the selected seat and the vacant seat will be offered in Final Round of counseling as per merit.

The Provisional and Confirmed Allotment letter has built in security features and cannot be duplicated. No duplicate Allotment letter will be issued for any reason. If it is found that the allotment letter issued to the candidate is tampered, the COMEDK reserves the right to cancel such allotment and with hold the fee paid.

No candidate will be allowed to change the seat once selected during this round. Candidates are cautioned here that they have to be very careful during this process, as the computerized system cannot be reversed especially if the rank below him has already exercised his choice of seat selection.

Final Round of seat selection: The seat selection process will be held as per the dates and time given in Appendix II. After the completion of the first round seat selection, unfilled, surrendered, forfeited, cancelled and newly added seats, if any, will be offered in Final round.

• All candidates who have selected a seat and obtained Confirmed allotment letters in respect of the seat selected in the first round whether reported to the college or not, will be eligible to participate in the Final round along with candidates who have not selected any seat.
• If the seats are remaining vacant under minority quota the first session of the final round of counseling would be for candidates belonging to Religious (Christian) / Linguistic (Tulu / Telugu) minorities of Karnataka only. If Minority seats of Father Muller are still vacant then the Christians of other states would be counseled before it is moved to general merit category.
• Seats, if any, remaining vacant under minority quota will be moved to General Merit category. General Merit candidates are counseled as per schedule.
• Candidates who have not attended the 1st round of counseling are also eligible to participate in the Final round to choose the seats available at that stage.
• During the Final round of counseling, there is no provision to issue any provisional allotment. Only the candidates who appear with the original documents and who are willing to submit them at the time of allotment will be counseled during the Final round.

Grounds of Reject

• If on verification the documents are not found to be in order or on falsification of documents or the expert committee is not convinced about the genuineness of the documents submitted at the verification counter such of the candidate will be rejected.
• If there is a mismatch of photo, finger impression and signature of the candidate or if there is a reasonable doubt by the expert committee that there is malified intent of impersonation, such of the candidate/s will be debarred and criminal proceedings may be initiated. The decision of the expert committee will be final in this regard.
• Candidate must be physically present and no proxy registration is possible (Medical certificates / affidavits will not be accepted for the same).