Congratulations!
Hearty congratulations to all those who made it to IIMs this time.
Looking forward to meet IIM Cal Junta soon.
Why/ why not to join IIMC
I have had enough queries in the past few days and so here is the definitive list of reasons why you should/should not join IIM Calcutta.
1. This place will let you retain your individuality and treat you like an adult. You will not be treated to a deluge of tests and quizzes and readings. If you are someone who is comfortable in finding his own meaning of what an MBA is come here. Rigor here is defined by the sheer analytical depth and not by the number of hours you pore over your books. You will enjoy and find your own pace but the quantitative concepts even in Human Resource Management will leave you struggling with your analytics.
2. You will feel welcome and a part of a community the moment you enter the gates. This place will not intimidate you or make you to feel humble and insignificant. I have had dinners, lunches and innumerable coffees with some of my professors here. They treat students as equals and do not believe in putting you through a tough time for the sake of it. IIMC is not larger than life and will not make you believe you are. I did not “survive” my first year –I enjoyed it.
3. Most faculty members have been here 20 years or longer. They have the adoration of generations of IIMCians and have seen it all and done it all. We have many wjho have taught in Ivy league schools in the US. Our stats professor was a former director of the Indian Statistical Institute. In fact the reason IIMC does not have a waiting list is because there is an entire team of stats profs figuring out exactly how many final calls need to be given out for 300 students to join. They have incredibly managed to get it right almost every single time in the past so many years.
4. Finance, all that can be said has been said. If you aspire to be a banker, a market maker or a trader there is no place in India that prepares you better than IIMC. The sheer analytical content in every course, the advanced nature of the finance courses, the various unique positions/roles offered to IIMCians every year all point to this simple fact- If you want to do finance, you should be in IIMC. Every PGP-1 has done more in John C Hull’s “Options Futures and Derivatives” (the bible for IB markets) by the end of his summer placements than people will ever get to do in their entire MBAs elsewhere. I will not talk about the Eco/Fin faculty to avoid stating the blindingly obvious. You may disagree on IIMC’s supremacy on a million counts, but if you think finance- you think IIMC.
5. Placements. 225k 4 years ago, 250k now. The highest number of day zero offers (There is a little piece of news coming your way 
) The best lateral placements riding on the enormous alumni wave, Over a 100 laterals offers. There is a good reason why none of this has gone down even if the rankings have fallen. Placements are hard reality unlike PR and the Indian media. The placement reports are out there for everyone to see.
6. Sports/Extra currics/Culture- Read through some of my earlier posts. We have a performing dramatics cell which stages plays with budgets running in lacs absolutely professionally done. We have JBS BaroC-one of India’s oldest college bands and the lifeline of the IIMC community. We have a world class gym, grounds for almost every sport, and of course the surprisingly popular swimming pool. We have a life gentlemen and a bloody good one at that.
7. Student profiles- IIMC does not lay much emphasis on your past acads. There is a very popular interview with our Dean here in PG elaborating the same. What this means for you in very tangible terms is that the company shortlists during placements will not be a list of students ordered by their GPA. Year after year people enter the best of the companies purely on strength of their extra curriculars (Sports/Drams/BaroC/Intaglio). This is essentially a cultural point since inevitably alumni are involved in the short listing. If you do not have those stellar picture perfect academics but have spent your time cracking the scene outside, come here and rest assured you will have a blast and get a great career on your own terms. You do not have to become a mugging machine to ensure you have one of those dream offers. This is probably one of the most important points I would consider especially since this is where the top 3 IIMs differ the most and it is quite clearly a deal breaker.
This has been one of India’s best institutes for over 45 years now and the list of names that make up our alumni are quite clearly unmatched. No school in India can boast of a CEO of the scale of a Nooyi, a billionaire in Vikrant Bhargava or an all conqueror like Malli. Of course I am leaving out the CEO of CNBC India, our respected director and the founder of Rediff, the many many Mck,/BCG/ Bain/ATK partners. the Asia Pacific head of Deutsche Bank and the regular list of VPs, MDs and others across sectors including of course Professor Apte, the man behind IIM-B’s rise as a top Indian institute.
Ask the hard questions and the answer is obvious. If somebody asks you to join a school because everyone in the past has done so, he quite clearly lacks any other point to come up with. This post is a direct, clean list of my school and who would make a good fit there.
For the record- I write here in my own capacity and this post has nothing to do whatsoever with the PR cell of IIMC.
All’s gud that ends gud!!!
all’s gud that ends gud!!!
After such an agonizing wait, finally the time has come when the anxiety of the students is bound to peak(thats exactly what they waited for so long(in fact tooo long)). So finally the wait is over and IIM results out.
IIMC like previous years is again the first one to come up with the results this year and IIMA again like previous years the last one to come up. Anyways what matters is that the result is out, wait ends and the nerves relaxed.
It would not be right if I do not mention the kind of pressure I felt today. Probably the only time, I have been so anxious for my results. I remember, I had even have a look at results of CAT for more than a day after it came out. Reason: was not so anxious and had a feeling, if it is (+ve) , it is, if not doesn’t matter. had not even calculated expected scores from keys provided by coachings earlier. Reason was sure about inaccuracies in the keys provided and had a feeling it would end up fine.
Even this time, I was consoling others when they were feeling low till last few days and then, suddenly found myself caught in the grip as well. I don’t know what is it that i feared but somehow i had a fear, a fear of losing out an golden opportunity; a fear that i may be back among people i am about to leave. what would it look like if i don’t make it to IIMs? what would i answer to the questions various people will put up? comments like “arey aisa kaise ho sakta hai” and “koi baat nahin chalo agle saal ho jayega” would have worsen the matter rather than being consoling comments. and after having lost to all the non-IIMs, i don’t see a reason why i should not be worried. (See what anxiety can do to you: a hardcore optimist converted to pessimist) I know these people don’t actually matter to me but what matters tome is my self-respect. i would lose all my self respect if i fail somehow.
With this kind of a mental state I sat in front of my desktop looking into the screen with 6 tabs open and a continuous refresh on all of them. as soon as a site goes down the heart beat goes up. Had a preoccupied mind that i would go in the order KILBCA when i check results and obviously the reasons is simply, better chances in the lower ranked IIMs and a selection there would ease down the nerves(wont deny the role of superstition here). Fortunately and luckily, found a person with whom i could chat and divert my mind but again on such a moment you don’t have any other topic to talk about… others are more interested in knowing your final result than anything else…everyone has right to expect..isn’t it?.. anyhow we started on the same lines but in some time could move on to general philosophical lines. his approaches in life, my approaches in life.(surprisingly with the number of similarities between us, it seemed like talking to self in a mirror)
But again that was momentary . All that ease vanished in some time. I did not feel like doing any work. This fear.. this anxiety was killing me.
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IIMC results out!!!
Should I check it or should I wait on for KILB before checking C??? C is my best bet…what if my name doesn’t appear there. Somehow God provided me some courage and I decided….”jo hoga dekha jayega..lets see whats in”… and YES.. YES.. YES.. I DID IT .. I MADE IT TO CAL.. WOW ..THAT’S GR8.. I CANT BELIEVE IT .. THANK GOD YOU DID IT FOR ME I AM REALLY THANKFUL TO YOU.. I AM THANKFUL TO ALL THOSE WHO HAD PUT IN EFFORTS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN…. FINALLY I AM HEADING TO ONE OF ELITEst OF THE B SCHOOLS.. IT IS A DREAM COME TRUE….WOW I CANT EVEN EXPRESS HOW I FEEL LIKE….and so on 
Even forgot that there are still some more results to come…come on lets celebrate this moment…dragged my team to ice cream parlor…jo khana hai order kar do…..come on this is not the party but just a gesture of my happiness..actual party to come later..
now i didn’t care whether i make it to IIMA or not…i have got C and that is the best thing that can happen to me….
AND finally AbhiTaneja to head to JOKA…..IIM CALCUTTA ROCKS…and now it ll rock some more with in
Come on!!! It has to be better than this..
I have always been known for not expressing my feelings in public but here I am a depressed , a frustrated person, a loser finding some space to get that frustration out.
Everything looked fine when i was giving interviews for admission in B-schools. The performance never looked that bad to throw me out of all but the results seem to be indicating something else. After already been kicked off from NITIE and partly from IIT-D, all that was remaining was to be kicked off from MDI. Something that happened and hurt badly, I am here to vent out all the frustration…
Time to retrospect!!!
NITIE: Everything seemed fine. Had an average GD(thanks to the topic…dint have much knowledge about) but a decent PI. The panelists looked satisfied with the responses. God knows what then!!
IIT-B: Somehow made me remember what had happened last year there!! The panelists must have scolded me after i had gone (last year) and this time they must have thought how such dumb people clear the written test? There must be something terribly wrong with JMET?. And I think there is something terribly wrong with IIT-B. Somehow i do manage to prove my stupidness there. The chemistry doesn’t strike. I never manage to make an impression there. The result is not out yet but hey! come on! I don’t deserve to even expect a selection (or rather a waitlist) there.
IIT-D: Unlike last year when i had a superb PI and a good GD, this time I managed to mess up around there as well. cud not help my below average performance at GD(had a major position disadvantage) and thanks to the confusion created when the panelists assumed MOBILE SOLUTIONS to EMBEDDED SYSTEMS. Though was still hopeful of making it to the final list based on my rank. Somehow managed that but that is the only positive I can show!!!
MDI: was the last one…I was super chill…had a fultoo bak in PI. (Panelists and I seemed to have struck a brilliant chemistry). They were chilled as well. All laughed for more than 80% of the total 12 mins. There were some low points as well where I cud not answer the questions, which were the must know types but the panelists never gave an impression as if I was stupid rather supported like “arey koi baat nahin” and “chalta hai” with some comments in Hindi as well.
Probably it turned out to be more informal than it should have been.
Come On!! It has to be better than this!!!
Having been kicked off from 3 of the 4 non-IIM institutes, i don’t know what to expect from IIM results and thanks to Mr. Arjun Singh, the frustration to carry on for Indefinite period now!!!
The person who used to suggest people to keep their cool and not get frustrated here looks from some serious counseling. The anxiety seems to be ever growing. The wait is now killing me. The frustration is getting out of control(what the heck!! frustration itself is something out of control). The balance is already lost.
“Socha nahin tha takdir yahan layegi, manzil pe aate hi jaan chali jayegi…..” yahan to manzil se pehle hi umeed ja rahi hai
Sometimes I even doubt, do I really deserve to be in an elite B-school????Anyways I will still wait….wait till other results come out….before i answer this question.
Come on man!!!! It has to be better than this!!!!
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