Hello Sameer,

In the second merit list this year, the opening and closing cutoff ranks for the SC category is 10963 and 11890 in RMLNLU Lucknow this year. Even though you have a domicile of UP, it doesn't seem that the rank cutoff for State SC candidates will go down to 21555 in the third list. However, if there are enough vacant seats, the cutoff might actually dip. 

As far as the other NLUs are concerned, here are some you can consider as their rank cutoffs for SC category are closer to your rank in the se[cond merit list - 

• DSNLU Visakhapatnam - closing rank - 25136
• MNLU Nagpur - 23830
• MNLU Aurangabad - 24646
• NLUJAA Guwahati - 31022

All the Best!