With a rank above 10000, it is difficult to get the CSE or ISE branch at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. According to the recent cutoff trends for DSCE, the required cutoff for CSE was 3905. 

However, with your rank, you can make it to other branches like ECE, EEE, TE, etc. The college provides the option of internal transfer from one branch to another, so you can change your branch after following the procedure of the college to the branch of your choice if you want to.

PDPU or Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University is an engineering college in Gandhinagar. The campus size of PDPU is about 100 acres. It is recognized by UGC. It has been ranked 55th in India (2016) and 1st in Gujarat by NIRF. Also in the engineering category, it’s been ranked 177 by NIRF 2020.

Student Intake:

For the engineering field, it has 720 vacant seats whereas for the courses of liberal studies it has a total of 460 vacant seats.

Admissions:

• The mode of application for the admission process is Online.

• In PDPU, 50% of seats are reserved for the natives of Gujarat and the rest 50% seats are available for students from all over India.

• The application fee for the residents of Gujarat is INR 300 and for other students is INR 500.

• For applicants applying for MBA courses, the application fee is INR 1000.

• The documents necessary for admission in B. Tech are High School Mark sheet, Caste Certificate, JEE Main Admit Card, JEE MAIN rank card, and passport size photographs.

• Seat Reservation for SC candidates is about 15%, for ST it’s about 7.5% and for physically handicapped the reservation is for about 3%.

Eligibility:

• For B. Tech courses, the entrance exam of JEE MAIN is mandatory along with the minimum aggregate of 60% in 12th.

• For M. Tech courses, the entrance exam of GATE is a compulsory one.

• If an applicant is targeting a course like MBA, a valid score of CAT/XMAT/NMAT is required followed by GD, PI, WAT previous experience, and academic records.

• For admissions in post-graduation of liberal studies such as MSc and MA, the applicant has to take the test conducted by the Institute namely GUJCET.

• Ph.D. Admissions are based on the scores obtained in the RAT(Research Aptitude Test).

This comprises the factual data of the college related to admissions. For more details about the admission procedure, you can visit the official website of the institute.

One of my seniors had been in your shoes a few years ago. This answer is based on his experience. 

He enrolled at this university in 2012, for Engineering (B.Tech), after his higher secondary. Having failed to secure a decent rank in AIEEE, he was left with no choice but to pursue engineering from a private institution. These reasons were sufficient enough to make him appear in the entrance test for Amity University.

As is evident, Amity University conducts its entrance exam Amity JEE independently, for candidates seeking admission in its various graduate programs. After filling the enrollment form, he wrote the exam at its Lucknow Campus. He easily cracked the exam and was promoted to the interview round. 

Unfortunately, he could not get through the interview. His nervousness and anxiety took a toll on him in his first-ever interview. Moreover, he had poor conversational skills, which could be another possible reason for his failure. On analyzing the results, he realized that it was the basic English communication skills that were put to test, in the interview.

Though he could not secure a seat in the B Tech. program at Amity, he enrolled for MTech in 2016 at Amity and easily sailed through the interview this time. Working upon his basic English conversational skills, during his undergrad days, fetched him success in his second attempt.

On the basis of his experience, it will be advisable that you keep your communication skills on par with a good command of English. This will easily help you get through the selection process of Amity University.