B.Tech

Hello Rugved,
You have stated that you have obtained about 95 percentile in JEE Mains. Then you go on to ask two questions. Firstly whether you will get admission in Sardar Patel College of Engineering at Mumbai based on this entrance exam and secondly about lateral admission in this same institution. Let me clarify. Admissions to all the engineering colleges in Maharashtra except perhaps IIT and NIT are based on the entrance exam conducted by the government of Maharashtra called mht CET. You will get admission in in SPCE based only on this. Of course few seats may be reserved for what is called as national quota admission is based on JEE entrance but the seats are very limited and hence no one can predict whether one get admission on not. Second, lateral admissions are not given based on JEE Mains examination in Maharashtra. One simply have to register on the website of DTE for admission under this category.

The CET score doesn't tell you much. It just tells you how well you scored in the test. But that's not what the colleges require. What colleges ask for is your CET rank, which basically tells them how well you performed amongst others. You are given a rank based on the combined score of the CET test and board marks (equal weightage). So just a good score in CET is not sufficient. Your board marks also count. Moreover the difficulty of the CET paper and quality of students who write the exam differ each year. The board marks differ from student to student. So you can't generalise a good score. It's different for different students (based on their respective board marks). RVCE CSE Cutoff in 2015 was 288 and in 2016 was 239. On the other hand for ECE it was 374 in 2015 and 478 in 2016. Seeing a sharp demand for CSE the cutoff rank might come down to probably around 200 to 210. So a safe rank would be below 200. For ECE on the other hand, a safe rank would be below 400. All the best!
Thanks for reading.