CHENNAI: Three students each from Chennai, Namakkal and Villupuram featured in the top 10 rank holders for MBBS for academic year 2011-12. Two were from AKT Higher Secondary School, Kallakurichi. Erode and Kancheepuram districts too had one student each in the toppers’ list.“There were 66 students who scored 200 upon 200 this year, including 34 who scored centum in all four subjects, including Maths. The rank has been prepared based on their date of birth,” the Health Minister Dr V S Vijay said at a press conference here on Tuesday. Counselling would be held for special categories on June 30, while that for the general category, it would begin on July 1 and would go on for five days in the first phase, he said.In all, 21,887 applications for MBBS seats were received for the academic year, including 1,118 in the general category meant for children of freedom fighters, differently-abled persons, sportspersons and children of ex-servicemen. Of these, 646 were rejected and 20,123 were accepted. These include 7,565 first-generation graduates, and 401 students from the CBSE/SSCE boards.The total number of seats available for the 17 government medical colleges in the State was 1,653 (in State quota), while for the Government Dental College in Chennai, 85 of the 100 seats would be available under the State quota, the minister said.
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