Mumbai: In a major relief for law aspirants, the Maharashtra CET Cell has extended the deadline for filling college preferences for three-year and five-year LLB admissions after 232 more law colleges were brought into the centralised admission process.The additions have more than doubled the number of participating colleges from 149 when the option-form process began on Aug 5 to 381 now. They have also opened up 15,540 additional seats, taking the total number of seats available across the two courses to 31,600.The development follows an Aug 10 notification of the Bar Council of India (BCI), granting conditional approval to existing law colleges for the 2026-27 academic year.With colleges continuing to be added to the admission pool, the CET Cell has given three-year LLB aspirants until Aug 16 to submit their option forms. The deadline for five-year LLB candidates is Aug 15. Candidates who have already submitted their preferences can unlock their option forms, revise their choices and submit them again.So far, 46,365 candidates have submitted their college preferences—33,214 for the three-year course and 13,151 for the five-year programme. The first-round allotments will be made from among candidates who have submitted their option forms.The increase is particularly significant for the three-year course. When preference filling opened on Aug 5, only 93 colleges with 10,105 seats were available. Another 126 colleges and 9,930 seats have since been added, taking the pool to 219 colleges and 20,035 seats.For the five-year course, the number of participating colleges has risen from 56 to 162, with 106 colleges added. The seat pool has increased by 5,610, from 5,955 to 11,565.The admission process had been affected by delays in approvals for several law colleges, leaving candidates with a considerably smaller choice of institutions when option filling initially opened. The subsequent approvals have substantially expanded the pool just ahead of the first allotment.The CET Cell has asked candidates who have not yet filled their preferences to do so within the extended window and advised those who have already submitted their forms to revisit their choices in view of the newly added colleges.A revised schedule for the three-year and five-year LLB admission process will be announced shortly on the CET Cell website.
