The State Common Entrance Test Cell published the provisional selection list for CAP Round 1 on 30 August. If your name carries a college against it, the date that matters is 4 September 2026, 5.30 pm. Both the joining at the college and the Status Retention Form are due by then.
What the list actually contains
The document runs to 896 pages and lists 31,047 candidates, which is everyone who filled choices, not everyone who got a seat. Of those, 10,509 have been allotted a seat. The remaining 20,538 rows read “Choice Not Available”, meaning none of the colleges that candidate filled reached their rank in this round.
So a little over one in three candidates on the list has a seat after Round 1. Being in the larger group is not a rejection. It means your filled choices did not come to you at this rank in this round, and the later rounds are where that changes.
The seats went to 93 colleges: 65 medical colleges taking 8,065 candidates, and 28 dental colleges taking 2,444.
Where the seats went
| Type | Colleges | Seats allotted | Median rank of those allotted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Government MBBS | 42 | 4,916 | 37,302 |
| Private MBBS | 23 | 3,149 | 76,435 |
| Government BDS | 5 | 305 | 1,09,574 |
| Private BDS | 23 | 2,139 | 2,97,903 |
All ranks here are NEET All India Ranks. Maharashtra prints the AIR on the selection list itself, so nothing needs converting.
Roughly where Round 1 closed
A closing rank is only readable if you hold the seat type steady. The figures below cover open-category seats with no additional quota attached, so no women’s, hilly area, PwD, defence, orphan or earmarked seats are mixed in. Those seats close at very different ranks and would distort the picture.
- Government MBBS, open category: the last such seat went at AIR 47,413. Half of these seats went to ranks better than 18,832.
- Private MBBS, open category: last seat at AIR 1,14,441, median 68,015.
- Government BDS, open category: last seat at AIR 99,701.
- Private BDS, open category: last seat at AIR 4,09,799.
At the sharp end, G. S. Medical College Mumbai closed its open-category seats at AIR 1,796, L. T. Medical College at 4,886 and Grant Medical College at 6,376.
Reserved categories close later, and by a wide margin in places. Counting government MBBS seats the same way, with no additional quota attached, OBC ran to 52,299 and SEBC to 52,137, while SC ran to 1,43,965 and ST to 3,13,452. Treat all of these as Round 1 positions rather than final cutoffs. They move in every later round.
About 160 seats did not fill
The revised Round 1 seat matrix put 11,675 seats across those 93 colleges, of which 1,006 are the All India Quota surrendered to MCC. That leaves 10,669 on the state side against 10,509 allotments, so about 160 state-side seats went unfilled in Round 1 and carry forward. No college was allotted more seats than it had.
The list is provisional, and the deadline is not
The Cell states this plainly in its own notes on the document. The admitting institute will verify your original documents and check eligibility against the NEET UG 2026 brochure, and the admission is confirmed only after that. Two consequences follow.
First, an allotment is not an admission. If your documents do not support the claim you made at registration, whether that is a category, a domicile or a reservation, the seat does not survive verification.
Second, the notice is direct about the deadline: submit the original documents as per your claim and pay the fees at the selected college within the stipulated time, failing which the selection stands cancelled. There is no separate grace window mentioned.
The Status Retention Form is filled at the college by the same 4 September deadline. If you intend to stay in the process for a better seat in a later round rather than settling here, that form is the mechanism, and missing it is not a neutral act.
If you did not get a seat
Nothing on this list ends your candidature. The unfilled seats plus everything vacated by candidates who upgrade or drop out form the pool for the next round. What is worth doing now is checking how far your filled choices sat from where Round 1 actually closed, because a preference list built on last year’s expectations is the most common reason a rank that could have reached a college did not.
Official links
- CAP Round 1 provisional selection list, MBBS and BDS (PDF)
- Revised Round 1 seat matrix, Group A (PDF)
- Notice No. 12, choice filling and revised merit list (PDF)
- MahaCET NEET UG 2026 portal
Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats a given rank reaches. We also covered the court-ordered revision to the final merit list and Notice 11 and the revised seat matrix, including the three colleges sitting out the first round.
Source: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, “Provisional Selection List only for MBBS/BDS Courses, CAP Round 1”, printed 30/08/2026, read together with the revised Round 1 seat matrix (Group A) dated 25/08/2026. Counts and ranks in this article are aggregates computed from those documents. The selection list carries candidate names, roll numbers and form numbers; no individual row is reproduced here.