Co-relation between number of calls and final Admissions @ IIMs

[Bugs_Bunny]

While I 'm sweating away waiting for IIMs to declare list(s) ..
I did some interesting "statistical analysis" based on last year's GD/PIs

Consider this :

Database-> Prime tutorial's last year's GDPI description book.

No of students for GD/PI ( Sample size )-> 126

No of students with ZERO final admissions AND having atleast 3 calls -> 16

i.e.. ( ( F Adm = Nil ) && (no of GDPIs >= 3) ) = 16 , where around 12 ppl were freshers.

Also ( ( F Adm = Nil ) && ( no of GDPIs >= 4 ) ) = 5 and

( ( F Adm = Nil ) && ( no of GDPIs >= 5 ) ) = 3 , where all 3 were freshers

Assuming sample is representative of most of the GDPI candidates,
does it imply that junta with work-X and having 4/5/6 calls will rarely miss out entry into IIMs ?? (All misc factors like performance in GDPI being normal)

Supporting arguments are welcome as I myself have 2 yrs Work X and 6 calls..
It will make me feel better waiting for results

[psmith]

boy you have just managed to scare me dude...

[coolcat]

Some Great Research dude

You are sending shivers down my spine

Only two calls

Fresher

Looks @ this rate I shall be stuck

[lazyone]

hello

As Sidhu would "Statistics are like miniskirts, they titillate" (or some words to that effect)
Point is these stats cant be seen piecemeal to make a comment on final calls.

every IIM has its own method of looking at the varied factors(cat gd pi workex). everyone has a different weightage. Again every IIm has a predecided ratio of fresher to workex guys wanted in the class. So in some way freshers and workex guys will be viewed differently ... judged on different parameters!

people with 5 or more calls obviously have a very very high percentile. and then they would really really really have to screw up all the GD/PI not to get a call from any of the 6. highly unlikely that dont u think ?

So yes... having all 6 calls does give u a great advantage. Good work ex does nothing to harm your chances. But having said that those being less fortunate in these 2 resources dont suffer too much in comparision. if that was the case then they wouldnt have been called at all.

All that matters is irrespective of being a fresher or workex guy ... if u feel u have come out with no regrets then that should be it. u will get in if u r good enough ..and if u werent ...well it just wasnt meant to be this year.

I am a fresher with 5 calls ... also nervous and scared like hell... keep checking all IIm sites everyday like crazy. But i know the only factor that will disqualify me from the 4 IIMs i went to will be people being much better than me .

Cheers and Best of Luck
Lazee (aka Pushkar)

[spunky__shweta]

whoa Pushkar!! nice post, it really echoed my exact feelings, which is why i cudn't help post this admiring note!!!

me too a fresher wid 5 calls, missed C inspite of 99.92 percentile...and am pretty nervous as the day of reckoning is about to arrive, statistics or not, ur point is as good as gold, the only thing that will mar ones chances is them finding better ppl to take...

here's hopin we are in that better-ppl-range!!!

regards
Shw

[lazycat]

hello friends,
well,i seem to have one thing in common and one thing different from spunky above me.me too got 99.92 percentile ,but got only 2 calls,only cal and ind..during my cal gd/pi,at blore i heard guys speaking outside that good quants r required for cal.well,with a quant of 73,was surprised to get a cal call myself....
anyway,waiting for the results to come,,,and cal am not worried about much ,since i dont think they wont make mistakes twice...
but what about the weightages...if the iims give weightages such that a guy with lower percentile gets through with a good gd /pi,and such that a guy with high percentile wont get rejected by an ordinary gd/pi,then ,what r the probable weightages????

[theking]

jeez .... u people have me scared as well .... i am a fresher as well with 5 calls ... 99.93 % but really poor acads and OK GD/PIs

waiting madly for the results

Mihir

[ricky rawal]

Originally Posted by lazyone

hello

As Sidhu would "Statistics are like miniskirts, they titillate" (or some words to that effect)
Lazee (aka Pushkar)

hey Lazee,

I think it was smthing like " Statistics are like miniskirts, what they conceal is more important than what they reveal " .....
Seems to be just right in the case of IIMs .

Originally Posted by lazyone

people with 5 or more calls obviously have a very very high percentile.

not necessary, personally know 3-4 guys with 18 - 24 months of work-ex (i.e less than 2 years ) , with CAT percentile b/w 99 to 99.4 ( i.e not very very high %ile ) and all 6 calls . so there may be many more through out the country.

Originally Posted by lazyone

But i know the only factor that will disqualify me from the 4 IIMs i went to will be people being much better than me .

I wudnt use the word better here. u urself have mentioned that each IIM has its own criteria. so if a person doesnt make it to a particular Inst., its probably bcos his profile doesnt match what the Institute is looking for.

neway , All THE BEST for ur results and am sure u and shweta will make it to all the IIMs u guys have attended................

Regards

[pagalguy]

But i know the only factor that will disqualify me from the 4 IIMs i went to will be people being much better than me .

Simply Great attitude. Simply great. Rock on dude! You'll make it - or lets put it this way - nothing can stop ya

Cheers,

[Vibhavan]

Originally Posted by Bugs_Bunny

( ( F Adm = Nil ) && ( no of GDPIs >= 5 ) ) = 3 , where all 3 were freshers

I have the Prime material too and I noticed that several of the guys with 4/5/6 GDPI calls and no final calls tended to be nervous during their interviews (they have comented on this in the PI comments).

It could be that they were visibly nervous and had a negative impact on the interviewers.