Now I am well qualified to do a Ding Analysis, after getting two subsequent dings from IIM-C and IIM-B on November 7th and November 17th. Two dings in a span of 10 days. After these two dings I am not normal. I pretend to be normal and my mood is many times ON and OFF. Though I know lot of inspirational stories and bigger failures than this, but I am unable to apply my knowledge and come out of this sphere of sadness.
Well, for IIM-C I hoped everything went well. I was almost expecting an admit offer. But the bomb was dropped on the day of IIM-B interview, when I was in Mumbai at Oakwood premier service apartments . Siva sent me one SMS in the wee hours of the day, around 5 am to tell me the news that IIM-C results were out. I did not believe him and I thought he is saying about IIM-A results. I called Moorthy in the morning and gave him my full name details and date of birth to check in the web site. He too was excited to share the happy news with me. Suddenly his tone came down when he read the lines displayed on the screen. Carrying the news with me, it was difficult to prepare my mind for IIM-B interview.
For IIM-B also, I thought the interview went quite well. There were lot of cross questions about my career goals and there were lot of extempore items, which were absolutely irrelevant to assess the candidature. But B was very fast to declare the results and to clear the fog. On November 17th evening, at around 7 pm they started sending emails to offered candidates and wait listed candidates. I was refreshing my gmail account like crazy. But the holy mail did not come to my Inbox. The email did not reach me till now. I could not even make in the wait list of 40 candidates.
Hmm. I introspected a lot after these two dings. I would not say C is totally dinged because still the wait list results are to be announced on or before December 22nd. I have some 0.0001% of hope that some luck would favor me in getting in to IIM-C. I feel my GMAT score 630 is major culprit. A quick analysis of the limited information available on the selected candidates profile shows that the GMAT score was almost arraned inn descending order starting from 750~770. Alas! Where I am standing when I compare my marks with such high scores? Agree or disagree, our fate is completely decided by some four or five basic mathematics and English questions.
People in India, who are the victims of the population disadvantage mission, will understand this important fact. One has to compete with 10,000 people for everything in India. Either it is a college admission or using a loo in public.
I think my next weaker point is my SOP. I completely agree with this point. Though I have spent considerable time in making this for IIM-B, I made it in 1 day for IIM-C, which is my first SOP in my life. I think it is vague and it talks more about my current and past position and it fails to highlight , rather I would say pinpoint my future goals and strategy to achieve them. If I would have read http://www.thejaguarpaw.blogspot.com/ then I think I would have written a better SOP. I am convinced with my mistake here. But why I have been short listed for interview? The game for short listing is entirely different. A very lenient logic is used to short list candidates for interview for B & C, since the candidate has to pay for the application fees. To give some consolation to all the paid candidates a not-so-rigid approach is followed here.
I am sad that my experience, industry sector, post graduate degree and recos, nothing did help in the whole process. With my limited knowledge and introspection I have boiled down my analysis to GMAT score and SOP. Also interview score is the cumulative score that will be added to your profile score. Before interview itself, 90% of the candidate's fate is decided, I would say. I will write a separate post for B and C interviews.
Well, for IIM-C I hoped everything went well. I was almost expecting an admit offer. But the bomb was dropped on the day of IIM-B interview, when I was in Mumbai at Oakwood premier service apartments . Siva sent me one SMS in the wee hours of the day, around 5 am to tell me the news that IIM-C results were out. I did not believe him and I thought he is saying about IIM-A results. I called Moorthy in the morning and gave him my full name details and date of birth to check in the web site. He too was excited to share the happy news with me. Suddenly his tone came down when he read the lines displayed on the screen. Carrying the news with me, it was difficult to prepare my mind for IIM-B interview.
For IIM-B also, I thought the interview went quite well. There were lot of cross questions about my career goals and there were lot of extempore items, which were absolutely irrelevant to assess the candidature. But B was very fast to declare the results and to clear the fog. On November 17th evening, at around 7 pm they started sending emails to offered candidates and wait listed candidates. I was refreshing my gmail account like crazy. But the holy mail did not come to my Inbox. The email did not reach me till now. I could not even make in the wait list of 40 candidates.
Hmm. I introspected a lot after these two dings. I would not say C is totally dinged because still the wait list results are to be announced on or before December 22nd. I have some 0.0001% of hope that some luck would favor me in getting in to IIM-C. I feel my GMAT score 630 is major culprit. A quick analysis of the limited information available on the selected candidates profile shows that the GMAT score was almost arraned inn descending order starting from 750~770. Alas! Where I am standing when I compare my marks with such high scores? Agree or disagree, our fate is completely decided by some four or five basic mathematics and English questions.
People in India, who are the victims of the population disadvantage mission, will understand this important fact. One has to compete with 10,000 people for everything in India. Either it is a college admission or using a loo in public.
I think my next weaker point is my SOP. I completely agree with this point. Though I have spent considerable time in making this for IIM-B, I made it in 1 day for IIM-C, which is my first SOP in my life. I think it is vague and it talks more about my current and past position and it fails to highlight , rather I would say pinpoint my future goals and strategy to achieve them. If I would have read http://www.thejaguarpaw.blogspot.com/ then I think I would have written a better SOP. I am convinced with my mistake here. But why I have been short listed for interview? The game for short listing is entirely different. A very lenient logic is used to short list candidates for interview for B & C, since the candidate has to pay for the application fees. To give some consolation to all the paid candidates a not-so-rigid approach is followed here.
I am sad that my experience, industry sector, post graduate degree and recos, nothing did help in the whole process. With my limited knowledge and introspection I have boiled down my analysis to GMAT score and SOP. Also interview score is the cumulative score that will be added to your profile score. Before interview itself, 90% of the candidate's fate is decided, I would say. I will write a separate post for B and C interviews.
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