No. of calls sent out by each IIMs

[vinay_R]

Time to revive this thread !

Some data for this year, taken from here (Times of India, 3rd Jan 2006) :


IIM-Bangalore

Shortlisted around 1,003 candidates for 290 seats. GD/PI: Between March 20 and April 2

IIM-Ahmedabad

Shortlisted 882 candidates for 250 seats GD/PI: Between Feb 18 and March 25

IIM-Kolkata

Shortlisted 1,200 candidates for 270-300 seats GD/PI: Between March 12-16

IIM-Kozhikode

Shortlisted 1,800 candidates for 180 seats GD/PI: Between February 6-March 23

IIM-Lucknow

Shortlisted more than 1,000 candidates for 300 seats (240 for the regular MBA and 60 for the agribusiness) GD/PIs: February-March

IIM-Indore

Shortlisted 1,300 candidates for 180 seats. GD/PI: Between February and early April


but the same article on TOI says :

".... Of the 1.55 lakh students, who braved the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2005, one of the toughest entrance test in the country, for admissions to some of the prestigious B-schools in the country, only 6,185 students have crossed the first hurdle.
These 6,000-odd students have been shortlisted for group-discussion (GD) and personal interviews that will be conducted by the six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) between February and April. CAT was held on November 20, 2005. For Neha, who was shortlisted for one of the IIMs, it still is a long way to make it to the IIM classroom, as there are just 1,500-odd seats with 6,185 students vying for them ... "

Now if you add up the number of calls from the above data, it's 7185 - so is it that TOI has erroneously (both logically, assuming no overlaps and mathematically) added all of them Or is it that there are indeed 6185 individual students being called this time around ? the latter can't be true !? Puys, what do you think?


Vinay

[anupam will return]

Some observations :

a)I think when they mean 6,185 students have made it to the next round, they might not take only the IIMs into the picture.( though I don't buy this idea .. am still keeping it open as an option)

OR

b)If you add the number of calls you get 7,185.. so 6,185 should be a printing mistake and 6,185 stands for the number of calls and not the number of candidates. Even if you take the number of candidates as 6185, it means each candidate gets 7185/6185 ~ 1.16 calls !!! I don't think this is true.
c)If you consider the number of called candidates as 6,185, then considering that 1.55 lakh ppl took the test, anyone with a percentile of 96+ gets an IIM call.. I don't think this is the case
d)There's a parallel article published in The Economic Times which says only 2,500 candidates have been shortlisted for the IIMs with the calls going 4500+. Computing the percentile.. 2500 out of 1.55 lakhs.. calls starting at 98.4+ seems quite appropriate to me


cheers,

[s.y.n.a.p.s.e]

Originally Posted by bestfrnz4u

U might be wrogn there. My friend with waitlist 37 got thru .... I hear the waitlist went upto approx 50.

AFAIR the waitlist went upto 42

Originally Posted by vinay_R

....if you add up the number of calls from the above data, it's 7185 - so is it that TOI has erroneously (both logically, assuming no overlaps and mathematically) added all of them Or is it that there are indeed 6185 individual students being called this time around ? the latter can't be true !? Puys, what do you think?


Vinay

i read in Indian Express that arnd 3500 students got 6000+ calls....i dont remember the exact numbers nor am i able to find the link

[chintamani]

Arre Anupam Bhaiya,

Matter nahi karta na ab!! Now GD/PI is what matters BTW where are your centres?

[andthentherewas1more]

Originally Posted by vinay_R

Time to revive this thread !

Some data for this year, taken from here (Times of India, 3rd Jan 2006) :


IIM-Bangalore

Shortlisted around 1,003 candidates for 290 seats. GD/PI: Between March 20 and April 2

IIM-Ahmedabad

Shortlisted 882 candidates for 250 seats GD/PI: Between Feb 18 and March 25

IIM-Kolkata

Shortlisted 1,200 candidates for 270-300 seats GD/PI: Between March 12-16

IIM-Kozhikode

Shortlisted 1,800 candidates for 180 seats GD/PI: Between February 6-March 23

IIM-Lucknow

Shortlisted more than 1,000 candidates for 300 seats (240 for the regular MBA and 60 for the agribusiness) GD/PIs: February-March

IIM-Indore

Shortlisted 1,300 candidates for 180 seats. GD/PI: Between February and early April


but the same article on TOI says :

".... Of the 1.55 lakh students, who braved the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2005, one of the toughest entrance test in the country, for admissions to some of the prestigious B-schools in the country, only 6,185 students have crossed the first hurdle.
These 6,000-odd students have been shortlisted for group-discussion (GD) and personal interviews that will be conducted by the six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) between February and April. CAT was held on November 20, 2005. For Neha, who was shortlisted for one of the IIMs, it still is a long way to make it to the IIM classroom, as there are just 1,500-odd seats with 6,185 students vying for them ... "

Now if you add up the number of calls from the above data, it's 7185 - so is it that TOI has erroneously (both logically, assuming no overlaps and mathematically) added all of them Or is it that there are indeed 6185 individual students being called this time around ? the latter can't be true !? Puys, what do you think?


Vinay

Pretty interesting!

But about the number of people being called i think they got it wrong.

If we look at the consolidated call list thread(and the poll on it) , we find that there are more people with BLACKI than a single call. And that in itself is pretty interesting too.
IT also shows why PG is one heck of a place to be at

[chintamani]

More people with BLACKI calls post than the ones with one, a simple logic sir jee

[kool]

Y'day economic times has this info dat arnd 4000-4500 calls has been sent to 2600 odd students for 1300 seats...with call break up for each iims same as vinay's post says

[vinz]

Even i read the article in ET yesterday..it was on the front page only and no one could have missed that...........According to that data, if you have a look at the No. of seats and the no. of students getting calls, it seems that the ratio is nearly 1:2.xx........So does that mean every guy in 2.xx who have got calls will be entering IIM classrooms this year ???

[anupam will return]

Originally Posted by vinz

Even i read the article in ET yesterday..it was on the front page only and no one could have missed that...........According to that data, if you have a look at the No. of seats and the no. of students getting calls, it seems that the ratio is nearly 1:2.xx........So does that mean every guy in 2.xx who have got calls will be entering IIM classrooms this year ???

Atleast the theory of probability suggests so.. ratio = 0.56 , but let not complaceny get into us. Let's try our best to convert all of them!

cheers,

[anandv]

Even if IIMX selected 1000 ppl to choose 999 studs!
U mite be the 1000th person to lose out!

Dont get too much into this ratio debate...
Just convert them all!