Former journalist Pooja Gupta, a career counsellor, was shocked when the dummy admission form she submitted online to SVKM’s Mithibai College in Vile Parle was not only accepted but also made it to the college’s merit list. Interestingly, all the information in the form was fake and the name mentioned was a random combination of alphabets.

Gupta, who runs a vlog and a YouTube channel Media Mentor, has alleged that either forms submitted by the students are not being verified before the merit list is prepared or the college’s admission section has goofed up. According to Gupta, in the past three years, she has been guiding and counselling students and she fills up and submits admission forms herself to understand the issues and difficulties faced by students first-hand.