Important Dates for COAP 2020

Tentative Schedule of main rounds of offers:

Round No	Time window for viewing of offers and making decision by a candidate	Available options
		Accept & Freeze	Retain & Wait	Reject & Wait
Round 1	June 10 - 11, 2020 May 27 - 28, 2020	Yes	Yes	Yes
Round 2	June 17 - 18, 2020 June 03 - 04, 2020	Yes	Yes	Yes
Round 3	June 24 - 25, 2020 June 10 - 11, 2020	Yes	Yes/ No*	Yes
Round 4	July 07 - 08, 2020 July 01 - 02, 2020	Yes	Yes/ No*	Yes
Round 5	July 15 - 16, 2020 July 08 - 09, 2020	Yes	No	Yes

Round 1-4 of main rounds, Candidates have all the three options to select. The working flow chart of options can be seen in the following link However, candidates will not be able to choose Retain & Wait more than twice on a specific offer.

* No, if you have already used Retain & Wait on the same offer twice. Same offer refers to the program "XYZ" of a particular Institute "ABC".

Round 5 is a Decisive Round, therefore the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options to select.
The working flowchart of the options can be seen in the following link

Tentative additional rounds

Round No	Time window for viewing of offers and making decision by a candidate	Available options
		Accept & Freeze	Retain & Wait	Reject
Round - A	July 22 - 23, 2020 July 15 - 16, 2020	Yes	No	Yes
Round - B	July 29 - 30, 2020 July 22 - 23, 2020	Yes	No	Yes
Round - C	August 05 - 06, 2020	Yes	No	Yes
Round - D	August 12 - 13, 2020	Yes	No	Yes*

Additional Rounds A,B,C and D are independent rounds and each one is treated like a Decisive Round. That is, the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options in these rounds.
The working flowchart of the options can be seen in the following link

Few more Additional/ Spot Rounds may be announced in due course if any vacant seats exists.