I've been answering NEET counselling questions on Quora for almost a decade. 272 answers. 2.3 million reads. Most of them from parents who found me at 11pm, a day before a deadline, trying to work out what to do next.
The questions are always the same.
"My son has a seat in Round 1. Should he hold it, or try for Round 2?"
"We have a list, but it is built on last year. How do we know what has changed?"
"Round 1 is over and I am trying to work out stray vacancy on my own."
The facts are public. The behaviour is not — and the behaviour is what decides the outcome.
Fees, deadlines and eligibility are on the MCC website. Anyone can read them, and they answer the easy half of the question.
The half that decides an outcome is behavioural: who actually joined which college, who left, where they went in Round 2, what stray vacancy looked like at your rank last year. None of that is in a brochure, because assembling it is engineering work — millions of allotment rows, parsed and joined.
Last year, 60 students were allotted KMC Manipal and never reported. They had state alternatives. We tracked every one of the 39,478 MCC allotments — round by round, college by college.
Counselling is not a one-time call. It is a 60-day process across three rounds.
The decision changes every week — what is open, what the fee is, what walking away forfeits at this stage. Formity is built to be there for all sixty days, not just the day the list is made.
The hardest decisions in NEET counselling don't happen in Round 1. They happen between rounds. When you've been allotted somewhere okay and have to decide whether to hold or upgrade. When the deposit is now at stake. When stray vacancy opens and you have 48 hours to decide.
By that point, most families are figuring it out alone. Often wrongly.
A bad decision in Round 2 doesn't just forfeit a deposit. It changes a career.
A student who panics in Round 2 and accepts the wrong college because no one explained the upgrade math is locked in for five years. The MBBS state often determines PG eligibility. The bond decides whether they can practice freely. The fee structure decides whether they graduate with debt.
These are not small details. They are the decision.
So we built Formity differently.
We don't sell counselling calls. We built a product.
We don't disappear after Round 1. The product runs from May to September.
We don't recycle last year's lists. We parse MCC and state data every session.
We charge ₹4,990. Once. Every college. Every round. Every state. May to September.
What you are paying for is the data behind the decision: every allotment of last session, read against your own rank, and this session's official documents as they are published.
Ask if they'll be available in August.
Ask if their list is from this year.
If they can't answer those three questions clearly — you have your answer.
— Vishwajeet Ranjan
Founder, Formity. Since 2016.