[PaGaLGuY.com Interview] JBIMS Director Interview

[Apurv]

Originally Posted by crazy_frog

@nakul05,
Thanks man,
I dont have any Q. right now but would surely ask if I come across any.

"I will criticize but will have no alternatives to speak of" is not a very fair way of going about things.

Anyhow, interviews on Pagalguy serve to fill a serious communication gap between Indian B-schools and prospective applicants. It has already been pointed out that despite all the data being on the school website, 70 percent of the questions on the JBIMS thread ask the same basic questions. You might want to ponder why. It points to a hard reality, which could be either that Indian B-schools are not communicative enough with prospectives OR that the Indian applicant is not evolved enough to conduct his own research. Either way, the communication gap exists and we try to fill it. As has been mentioned, we are writing for the ten thousand people who do not know stuff rather than the ten who do.

[crazy_frog]

Originally Posted by Apurv

"I will criticize but will have no alternatives to speak of" is not a very fair way of going about things.

I agree. It is definately not fair. Me commenting on the interview is almost like a person who doesnt know how to hold a bat properly, is ridiculing Tendulkar's straight drive.

Originally Posted by Apurv

Anyhow, interviews on Pagalguy serve to fill a serious communication gap between Indian B-schools and prospective applicants. It has already been pointed out that despite all the data being on the school website, 70 percent of the questions on the JBIMS thread ask the same basic questions. You might want to ponder why. It points to a hard reality, which could be either that Indian B-schools are not communicative enough with prospectives OR that the Indian applicant is not evolved enough to conduct his own research.

I agree again.
Either way, the communication gap exists and we try to fill it. As has been mentioned, we are writing for the ten thousand people who do not know stuff rather than the ten who do.[/quote]
Yes and I am NOT among those ten but ten thousands. I am not saying that those questions are useless otherwise but those are definately when asked to Director. Instead, one could have interviewed registrar and consolidated the answers on one page for duniya.
ANyway, I didnt criticize for the sake of criticizing only. And you must be knowing better what should be asked and published.
To rate the interview as a bad one indirectly means that it is relatively bad when compared to other ones. (I have also read few) and it could have given insight into one of the top 10 Bschool's point of view on its entrance process(es), its position in the market accrding to them, its tie-ups with other B-schools (if any), future plans etc. etc. [I know that couple Qs. asking about these points are asked like on PGDBM, weightage to GD/PI] and so many. Now unfortunately a one of ten thousands puy is more unaware of these 'so many' things. And there are less chances that this communication gap would get fulfilled by any means unlike the selection process of CET where one would get to know almost everything once he fall into it.
Hope I am clear about what I exactly wanted to say.
Though I havent posted anything on the thread "what pagalguy means to you..", it means a lot to me so without any hesitation I said what I felt.
Thanks.

[Apurv]

Originally Posted by crazy_frog

Yes and I am NOT among those ten but ten thousands. I am not saying that those questions are useless otherwise but those are definately when asked to Director. Instead, one could have interviewed registrar and consolidated the answers on one page for duniya.

In absolute terms you do have a point and in the ideal world we'd go and interview everyone across B-schools and get it all out here. Trouble is, and this applies to most Indian B-schools, that they hold their communication too close to their hearts. One guy is usually designated to talk to the media in most schools and it is not as if everyone is even authorized to speak. There are schools that refuse to speak to any media with the reason that "we are already reputed and don't need the media." Some schools censor our questions at their end and during such times we abort the communication from our end, keeping in mind the interest of PG users.

This as opposed to top international schools whose people are the warmest and most open people I have ever worked with. Compared to that attitudes are pretty closed in many Indian schools and I don't deny that they might have their reasons which we are not privy to. So given an opportunity to talk, we ask questions relevant to the greatest denominator first. All in all, it's much more complicated than you think and in the context of reality, things work very differently. Having said that, we do our best whenever we get the opportunity.

[nakul05]

Originally Posted by Apurv

There are schools that refuse to speak to any media with the reason that "we are already reputed and don't need the media." Some schools censor our questions at their end and during such times we abort the communication from our end, keeping in mind the interest of PG users.

I still feel asking the right questions is tougher.
I still urge to ask the ques, if any, that remains to be answered !

All in all, it's much more complicated than you think and in the context of reality, things work very differently. Having said that, we do our best whenever we get the opportunity.

Completely agree on that ! Thats what makes PG a gr8 place to be in