How Many Students will be Invited for AILET 2026 Counselling?

How Many Students will be Invited for AILET 2026 Counselling?

Mirza Farhan BaigUpdated on 18 Dec 2025, 05:38 PM IST

NLU Delhi invites 3 times the number of students in each category. With 110 seats offered through AILET, 330 students will be invited for the counselling. Of these, the general category, where over 14,000 students have appeared, has 50 seats, and accordingly, AILET counselling invitations will be given to 150 (including 9 PwD students).

How Many Students will be Invited for AILET 2026 Counselling?
How Many Students will be Invited for AILET 2026 Counselling?

OBC non-creamy layer will have 72 students getting invitations, including 3 PwD students. Under the SC and ST categories, 51 and 24 students will get the counselling invite.

Category

Total Seats

Horizontal Reservation for PwD

Seats after Excluding PwD

Counselling Invites (×3)

General

50

3

47

150

OBC (Non-Creamy Layer – 22%)

24

1

23

72

Scheduled Castes (SC – 15%)

17

1

16

51

Scheduled Tribes (ST – 7.5%)

8

0

8

24

Economically Weaker Section (EWS – 10%)

11

1

10

33

Subtotal (Indian Nationals)

110

6

104

330

AILET has in recent years become an intensely competitive entrance exam. In previous years, the AILET general category admissions have closed at around 60, indicating a higher acceptance rate. With no other NLU accepting AILET scores, even general category students with an AIR 70 also stand to face rejection.

Total number of students registered vs appeared in AILET 2026: BA LLB and LLM

Category

Applied (Total)

Appeared (Total)

General

15,686

14,613

Scheduled Castes (15%)

3,182

2,825

Scheduled Tribes (7.5%)

896

771

OBC-NCL (22%)

5,340

5,082

EWS (10%)

2,113

2,028

Kashmiri Migrants

11

11

Total

27,217

25,319

PWD (5% horizontal)

179

161

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With a score of 121 marks and an AIR of around 1000 in AILET 2026, getting admission to NLU Delhi for the BA LL.B (Hons.) program is not possible under the general admission process. NLU Delhi admits students strictly based on AILET rank, and the closing ranks are usually within

A score of 121 marks in AILET 2026 is a good score, but admission to an NLU depends primarily on your All India Rank, not just marks. With an AIR of around 1000, admission to NLU Delhi is highly unlikely under the general category.

NLU Delhi has:

  • Very limited seats

Hello,

Yes, scoring 94.75 in AILET 2026 as an ST candidate gives you very strong chances for admission to NLU Delhi, potentially even a high rank, as expected cutoffs for ST are much lower (around 60-70 marks), but your score puts you in a highly competitive bracket.

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Hello aspirant ,

With an AILET rank of 16168 and a CLAT rank of 49000 , getting admission in NLUs is not possible.  However, many private law colleges accept students based on CLAT or AILET rank without conducting their own entrance test . Colleges like UPES Dehradun ,AMITY law school