IIFT waitlist works like this. Quiet sketchy. Personal experience, be Aware.
Basically if you are selected, you pay 3.2 lakh first fee and then you will be eligible for internal campus movement in this order. Delhi > kolkata > Kakinada > GIFT city.
So basically you first move from lower campus to kolkata if seat is freed up, then you move to delhi if more seats freed up. So you never know if you will move .
Now for people who didnt convert any of the 4 campus. You need to pay 20000 for being in waitlist. Now if you convert any campus you are not eligible for this 20000 refund in any case. Then you need to pay another 3.2 lakhs first installment fees to be moved to internal waitlist, that works the way intslked above.
If you do not pay 3,2 lakh after converting gift city, you do not stay in internal waitlist ans forefit your admission as well as those 20000. If you pay 3.2 lakh, you are effectively taking admission in gift city and paying its fee and if you decide you dont wanna pay for 25 lakh for 0 stipend and 0 placememts, your cwn withdraw before course starts but you loose 20000.
So this is a scam basically. Forcing you to take admission in gift city to be eligible for other 2 campus. Kolkata is performing not well. Delhi is the last step in waitlist movement. So basically they are trying to trap kids to join kakinada and gift which no one wants.
Lost 20000 last year to this. Not falling for it again. F them. It's completely bogus policy.