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To be fair, getting in even with the Quota is extremely difficult. If difficulty without the quota is a 10, difficulty with the quota is more like a 9.7.

If you were Forward Caste and rejected from CSE@IITB only because of a Caste Quota, you statistically would have ended up at CSE@IITK or EE@IITD, which has no meaningful difference.

Belittling people who attended top programs on caste quotas is lame and mean.

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Category : Cutoff Score for IIT ( out of 100)

Common Rank List :90.7788642 (Brahmins, upper castes which Ycombinator hates)

Gen-EWS:75.6229025

OBC-NCL:73.6114227 : Mr Kuldeep meel (based on his caste)

SC:51.9776027

ST:37.2348772

PwD:0.0013527

I would say 73 is minuscule in comparison of 90. Kuldeep is a typical Kota kid, he is not someone coming out from rural India. I wish him best. Sad to see he stopped so low for clicks.

source: https://www.shiksha.com/engineering/jee-main-exam-cutoff

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