A plain-language guide to using this product.
By signing up, you agree to these basics.
A tool, not a service.
A software tool that helps you build a counselling choice list for Indian engineering entrance exam admissions — JEE Main, JEE Advanced, JoSAA, AP EAMCET, TS EAMCET.
What Shortlisted isn't:
- We're not a counselling service. We don't have human counsellors, we don't run calls, we don't have a Calendly.
- We're not affiliated with NTA, JoSAA, APSCHE, TGSCHE, or any college, university, or government body.
- We don't take commissions from any college.
We aggregate publicly available data from official portals and turn it into a tool you can use.
Anyone preparing for Indian engineering admissions.
Anyone preparing for Indian engineering entrance exams or helping someone who is. If you're under 18, please use it with your parent's knowledge.
We ask for your rank, category, exam, and preferences. Please give us accurate information. If you make up a rank, our predictions will be useless — for you, not us.
Fair use, clearly stated.
What you can do:
- Build, save, and share your own choice list
- Compare colleges and branches using our data
- Download a parent-ready PDF for your family
- Share your shortlist URL with whoever you want
What you can't do:
- Scrape our data or copy our content without permission
- Sign up with fake information or impersonate someone else
- Use our content commercially — resell it, republish it, or build a competing product from it
- Run bots, scrapers, or automated tools against the site
- Use Shortlisted to harass anyone
If you work at a coaching centre, a competing counselling service, or anywhere with a commercial interest in our data: please ask before you scrape. We'll often say yes for legitimate research.
Estimates, not promises.
This is important — read it carefully.
Cutoff predictions on Shortlisted are based on historical data from official sources. They are statistical estimates, not guarantees.
We can't promise:
- That you'll get into a specific college
- That a predicted cutoff will match the actual one this year
- That a college's fees or placements haven't changed since we last updated
- That the official counselling portal will behave as expected
Final responsibility for your choice list is yours. Shortlisted is a tool to help you think. It is not a substitute for reading official counselling documents from JoSAA, APSCHE, or TGSCHE. Always verify deadlines, fees, and eligibility on the official portal before you submit.
If a parent or student decides not to use Shortlisted because of this, that's a reasonable call. We'd rather you go in with clear expectations.
What belongs to whom, and what we're responsible for.
The Shortlisted name, design, code, and original content — charts, PDFs, predictions, copy — belong to the people who built it. Don't copy them without asking. Data we aggregate from official sources remains the property of those sources. We cite them where applicable.
When you build a choice list or generate a report, you give us permission to host and process that content so we can show it back to you. You can delete it any time. We don't claim ownership. If you make your shortlist public via a shareable URL, anyone with that URL can see it.
We do our best to keep the site working and the data accurate. If a bug, a wrong cutoff, or a glitch causes you a problem, we'll do our best to fix it — but we can't compensate you for it.
Specifically: if you don't get the seat you wanted, that's not Shortlisted's fault. Counselling outcomes depend on dozens of factors we don't control — your rank, the official portal's behaviour, other candidates' choices, category quotas, and your own decisions about float/slide/freeze. Use our tool as one input, not the only one.
How to resolve issues and what happens when this page updates.
If you ever have an issue with us or how we've handled your data, email hello@shortlisted.live first. We'll do our best to sort it out without anyone needing to involve lawyers. If something does escalate, Indian law applies — disputes go through courts in Hyderabad, India.
We may update this page. When we do, we'll change the "Last updated" date and notify you of significant changes via email or a banner. Continued use of the product after a change means you accept the update.