Hi Adarsh,

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on getting a rank of 1700 which is a good rank. :)

Yes, you are definitely eligible for the counseling round at KIIT depending on the branches available along with the availability of seats.

I'll provide you with the cutoff ranks or the closing ranks of different streams in the year 2015 so that you can roughly estimate the chances:

Civil Engineering: 29689

Information Technology:16614

Electronics & Instrumentation: 30415

Electronics and Telecommunication: 14233

Computer Science Engineering: 5044

Electrical Engineering: 24207

Electrical and Electronics: 20970

Mechanical Engineering: 11748

Mechanical engineering (Automobile): 17648.

The university conducts counseling of candidates based on the cutoff list that is prepared by the institute, KIIT every year after KIITEE so it is mandatory to keep an eye on the official website too. Candidates will be called for counseling of KIITEE 2019 based on the cutoff list prepared by the institute. Candidates who complete the counseling is offered admission for their selected subject and they pay the admission fees securing their admission in that particular branch. So admission is basis availability of seats too.

And for your rank, you would easily get the call for counseling in any of the branches.

For more information, you can refer here too: https://university.careers360.com/articles/kiitee-cutoff .

If you have further queries, feel free to drop your query as a comment below.

Wish you luck!