Picture used for representational purpose only MUMBAI: Colleges across the city will open their gates first to in-house candidates and the Covid-19 pandemic may see few students wanting to migrate to other degree colleges. While streams such as science will witness students branching out to engineering and health sciences, arts and commerce cut-offs could soar and only a handful of seats may open up for outsiders. Admissions thus may be tougher for candidates who completed Class XII from a high school or a junior college that does not have an attached degree college. The top autonomous colleges will not conduct their entrance test this year. These institutes, most of them among the highest rated and most popular city colleges, will probably continue with the same batch of candidates in their popular divisions. For unaided programmes, seats will open for all candidates and admissions will be conducted on the basis of their Class XII scores.