Hello, Aniket. First of all, I congratulate your brother for successfully clearing WBJEE. I have read your question and only thing I can suggest is ask your brother to participate in Round 2 of the counselling. If you look closely to Round-wise cutoffs you will notice that the range of opening and closing ranks gets wider as the counselling process progresses to subsequent rounds.

For instance, in 2020 WBJEE Counselling Round - 1, the Opening Rank for Chemical Engineering in JU was 255 while the Closing Rank was 853 (for General). This range changes in Round 3 where Opening Rank was changed to 269 and Closing Rank was 981 (for General).

For more information, follow these links: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/wbjee-cutoff#WBJEE-Cutoff-2020

Use WBJEE College Predictor to know your chances of getting admission in various colleges including JU.

I hope this information helps you. I wish your brother all the best for his future and career.

Thank you.

Hello,

Seat allotment depends on various factors such as order of preferences of the college/branch, total number of seats available under particular category, merit rank, category of the candidate, seat availability etc. Your brother might have selected Haldia Institute of Technology in highest priority followed by Jadavpur University. Since the seat allotment is based on order of preferences of the college/branch and other factors it is important that one should give highest priority to the college in which he/she in interested. We would suggest your brother to participate in subsequent rounds so that he may get seat in the preferred college.