SASTRA (Deemed to be University) Thanjavur Answered Questions

There are two deciding factors:
1. Interest- This is the major factor. You have to follow your interest, whether CS or EEE or any other stream. Have a look on the blueprint of the course if you have confusion on what you are going to study in these streams.
2. Institute- IIIT- Sricity is an emerging institute whereas NIT-Andhra Pradesh (Warangal) is known for its quality of education and placement opportunities from many years.
Obviously there is no comparison between two institutes. If you have interest in EEE, just go for NIT-Andhra Pradesh or if you have passion towards CS, you can try IIIT-Sricity.
4 years time is ample for growing and getting placements for the IIIT, considering the present rate of development of the world.

In my suggestion if you are willing to do engineering and if you can drop on this year than do that but if you can't drop and want to pursue engineering this year then go for the all 7 rounds of counselling and of course there is a chance that you would get SASTRA.

The admissions will happen under two streams.
Stream 1: 70% of seats through JEE (Mains) score and +2 score.
25% and 75% of weightage will be given to JEE score and +2 marks under this stream. Your +2 marks will be normalized with that of the first rank student's marks in your board. You will be ranked with respect to the combined score of your JEE (Mains) and +2 marks. Your rank will be determined by the combined scores of all other applicants. Stream 2: 30% of seats through +2 marks. You will be ranked according to the normalized percentage of your +2 marks with other applicants under this stream.
Admissions under the two streams will happen according to your rank. You can apply under both the streams.