Life @ Great Lakes Inst. of Mgmt-Chennai

[ranju_08]

Very much excited about the activities and responsibilities this college bestows upon the students..The management has been very open to innovative ideas of each and every student...result has been so many new initiatives within weeks of the course commencement...

Great Lakes does have a culture to make "Business Ready Managers"!

Originally Posted by umesh_wpc

Very well said Hummer...what an exposure here. Folks from so many walks of life sharing a common platform...their plethora of experiences, multitude of achievements...it is simply amazing...yesterday i was talking to buddies from Merchant Navy and got so much informed about their adventurous life-styles,luxurious voyages,parties et al......I am sure this one year is going to be one of the most memorable ones....Thumbs up to fellow-mates..
Cheers....

[FromAlienWorld]

Originally Posted by Robaroo...

Thanks Hummer, for the useful post.
I second each and every point you have mentioned, lucky to be a part of this growing college... and more importantly the peer group.

@FromAlienworld,
Our class has a healthy mix of people with different experience levels, from various industries and domains. Each individual brings a different prospective to the class discussions which has a enriching effect...

Before answering your question... I ll say that
I hope you will agree that any management entrance exam is a relative exam and the CAT %iles varies for most of us on the D-day, this does not make any body's profile look inferior...

We have experience ranging from 7 months to as high as 8.5 years... (these are as per my knowledge, for official figures you ll have to wait for the website update) but then when a person with less experience is taken it means he/she has proved him/her self among the experience lot on some other parameters...

Hope I have answered your query...

Thanks to the peer group... Its just one month and I have learned a lot from Champions...

Regards,
GS

@Robaroo...

Sorry, shouldn't have put it that way.
What I wanted to know is whether GLakes does have place for mediocre candidates.
You have talked all about work ex., while I wanted to know about academics.
Can anyone with very mediocre (well, u can say below average) academics and an average GMAT score, and also average work ex (not in terms of years but job profile) look forward to get admitted in GLakes?
If no, then can you pls tell me how to make it? The only thing that can be done is to write GMAT again and get a good score. Will it do?

[ranjit_2007]

Originally Posted by FromAlienWorld

@Robaroo...

Sorry, shouldn't have put it that way.
What I wanted to know is whether GLakes does have place for mediocre candidates.
You have talked all about work ex., while I wanted to know about academics.
Can anyone with very mediocre (well, u can say below average) academics and an average GMAT score, and also average work ex (not in terms of years but job profile) look forward to get admitted in GLakes?
If no, then can you pls tell me how to make it? The only thing that can be done is to write GMAT again and get a good score. Will it do?

Well, Great Lakes places a lot of emphasis on Work Experience as well as ur written score......acads is of particular importance if u happen to be a fresher or a person with relatively less work ex...your extra curriculars play a big role if ur work exp is less....

So, a good GMAT score does add weight to ur selection....work experience is given a lot of importance.....to give u an idea, the average work ex of the previous batch was 37 months....

[ranjit_2007]

Well, to sum up my experience so far at great lakes.....there is never a dull moment when u are surrounded by great Faculty, great peer group coming from diverse backgrounds, an outbound program that is designed to overwhelm your senses at the beginning of the course, guest lectures from some renowned entrepreneurs, student driven activities, assignments, case study discussions, learning foreign languages like chinese, research activities and new initiatives designed to encourage students to share their knowledge, experiences....and the list is endless.....life at great lakes is "living the MBA dream" and hey whats more....all in an year's time....before u know what hit u...u would be armed with an MBA degree to take on the challenges of a global manager.

[kbipul]

Originally Posted by FromAlienWorld

@Robaroo...

Sorry, shouldn't have put it that way.
What I wanted to know is whether GLakes does have place for mediocre candidates.
You have talked all about work ex., while I wanted to know about academics.
Can anyone with very mediocre (well, u can say below average) academics and an average GMAT score, and also average work ex (not in terms of years but job profile) look forward to get admitted in GLakes?
If no, then can you pls tell me how to make it? The only thing that can be done is to write GMAT again and get a good score. Will it do?

Alienworld,
like any good institute, Great lakes too gives the importance to academics, CAT/GMAT score, Essays. But it doesn't mean that only these things determine a candidate's candidature. there are many more factors responsible for a candidates success and the profs decide that in the GD and PI process.

My profile :
Xth - 84%
XIIth - 62%
BE - 72%
work ex - around 19 mnth(at the time of applying) in IT in a IT major
CAT score - 94.62

and still I m here at great lakes.
Now its all upto you to decide

[The Hummer]

Another batch of high-energy photons graduated out of the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai on the 30th of April, 2008. Bedecked with the tag of MBA, the Junior Crusaders (as the Batch 2008 is known) are all set to launch their crusade in the corporate sphere. Held at the grand Chennai Convention Center, the convocation was an event filled with emotions, resolutions, guidance and exuberance.
The gathering witnessed the presence of Mr. N.Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu as Chief Guest and Mr. Ramalinga Raju, Founder and Chairman, Satyam Computers Limited as the Guest of Honour. Of course there were distinguished personalities like our Uncle Bala and Mr. T. N. Seshan (our permanent faculty).
Thoughts were poured in on issues like the importance of leadership in India, the essence of curiosity, need to see a dream and ensure that it gets realized and the relative significance of imagination vis-à-vis knowledge.
The feeling of accomplishment could easily be seen in the eyes of our seniors. An equal degree of determination was reflected in their attitudes. Check out the following link for more information.
The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Business schools urged to provide reality check

Cheers

[FromAlienWorld]

Originally Posted by kbipul

Alienworld,
like any good institute, Great lakes too gives the importance to academics, CAT/GMAT score, Essays. But it doesn't mean that only these things determine a candidate's candidature. there are many more factors responsible for a candidates success and the profs decide that in the GD and PI process.

My profile :
Xth - 84%
XIIth - 62%
BE - 72%
work ex - around 19 mnth(at the time of applying) in IT in a IT major
CAT score - 94.62

and still I m here at great lakes.
Now its all upto you to decide

kbipul,

I must say, your academic scores are too good if you compare it with mine! The tragic thing with me is I don't even qualify to sit for CAT Therefore I am heavily banking on a good GMAT score. I haven't appeared for that yet but I understand it's the only hope left.

Regarding my work ex., I will complete more than 50 months by next April, and though its not too impressive, it's not that bad also

I just came to know about GLakes recently, and now I am considering it
No. 1 in my list (don't know whether I should).

[EvilZombie]

Originally Posted by FromAlienWorld

@The Hummer,

Thanks a lot for these inputs.
Well, I have one query here (it's my personal).
Like every other B-school boy you have talked all the best things about Great Lakes. Well, I am also quite excited about GLakes I must say. Can you please throw some light on the profiles of the most ordinary guys selected this year? If you rank the admits in descending orders of profiles, I would like to know about the last three in the list.

Well, Can you please share this? It'll be great for me.

It deem it extremely disrespectful to rate a co-students's profile as 'ordinary'. So let me talk about myself.

I was not on the initial confirmed list. I was not on the wait list. I got a call a whole 16 days after the wait list was announced. Now I think that is pretty ordinary.

I have a four years of work ex in IT. Worked for Perot Systems Consulting Application Solutions and Sterling Commerce. My domain was predominantly Travel, Transport and Logistics.I was a senior software engineer.

710 GMAT. Previous Year CAT percentile 95 (Didnt use this to apply to Great Lakes though). Decent extracurriculars - Worked with Azim Premji Foundation, Head the Alumini committee of my alma mater, part time aerobics instructor. Foreign Language known - French. Apart from this 4 Indian languages.

Hope that gave you some pointers!


All the Best!

[Robaroo...]

@FromAlienWorld,
Put in your best, I am sure you will do good in GMAT and then give ur best short for the coming year...

If you have any further queries please feel free to ask...

All the best..!

Regards,
GS

Originally Posted by FromAlienWorld

kbipul,

I must say, your academic scores are too good if you compare it with mine! .
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I just came to know about GLakes recently, and now I am considering it
No. 1 in my list (don't know whether I should).

[EvilZombie]

Some links on the coverage that the institute got from the media on the day of convocation. This is to give an indication to the 2009-2010 hopefuls that the college has started creating a mark for itself in the media.

Also Uncle Bala has gone on record saying that we intend to move into our new ECR campus for the incoming batch of 2009 - 2010

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Business schools urged to provide reality check

The Hindu Business Line : ‘India should focus more on human development’

Indiainfoline.com

B-school Great Lakes' convocation held - Newindpress.com

Great Lakes Institute, Chennai Holds Convocation for PGPM Batch 2008 & EMBA Batch

The MBA Universe :- News & Updates


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Vidya Shankar
Class of 2009