Operation admission!

We're still dealing with SMSes and calls from random colleges and vague deemed-to-be universities from all over: Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka, West Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajastha

For the better part of this year, as the mother of a teenager transitioning into adulthood and out of school, I was on a roller coaster called college admissions.

When my daughter, husband and I — and 1.2 million sets of parents, students and a few dozen education reporters in every city — were least expecting it, the Central Board of Secondary Education declared the Class XII results on May 2 — weeks ahead of schedule and without warning. The move spared the children the agony of the wait, but only for the results. That the Delhi University (DU) admissions