3rd waitlist has been declared..chk d website
http://www.siescoms.edu/images/pdf/3rd%20Wait%20list%20PGDM%20Batch%202010-2012.pdf
Although being optimistic through out and having high regards for SIESCOMS, somewhere down the line I am getting a feeling that the whole admission process is being from Transparent to --> Translucent to --> Opaque. And there are number of reasons why i am feeling like that :-
1) Majority of the selections are either from maharashtra or the persons who are South Indian (No offence to any community

). As there is atleast
one person I know in the merit list who was in my GD Group and he didnt spoke a single word during GD, and was a South Indian living in Kandivali.
2) As I hail form a tier 2 city of MP, and this point was very notoriously pointed out by the interviewer during my second round of interview. He very bluntly asked me why people of tier2 and tier 3 cities of other States come to mahrashtra & Mumbai in particular, and spoil the atmosphere? What you people think is so special about mahrashtra & Mumbai?
My answer to him was pretty straight forward. I said that "Mumbai being one of the biggest port city of country is an ideal hub for any kind of Business and thats what attracts the most. And its pretty fortunate for Indians that Mumbai lies in Maharashtra and in the end it doesnt matter in which state Mumbai lies because Mumbai if for every Indian. But its
unfortunate for the local politicians and people who are supporting the ideologies of these so called political goons that their whole political propoganda is not giving results the way they thought it'd have given.
And I was stunned to hear the last sentence of my interview. The Interviewer said - "I wish all the very best to you and to other candidates like you coming from these states. Because there is very little scope left(I dont know of what sort of scope he was talking abt). And I wish Mumbai remains a peaceful city. You can move out of this room. Thank you very much".
When I enquired abt the interviewer from the moderators I was even more surprised to know that he was from the ******* department. And further the moderators told me that its quite normal here these days. You have to work really hard even to be considered average if you are from any state other than Maharashtra. (PS :- As was told by one of the PGDM Senior hailing from Rajasthan)
3) The result took almost 2 months and 10 days to come out. I dont know what made them to take such a long time. Even the schools better than this and poorer than this dont take more than 25 days to declare the result. And during that time they always acted suspicious.
4) Firstly its very hard to have a word with them on phone. And secondly if you are fortunate enough to hear some voice from the other side, they'll simply make you feel that they are obliging you by talking to you. And God forbid if you ask anything about the merit list they'll simply hangup the phone.
Being such a respected college its quite astonishing to see that its in the middle of such controversy. I mean you'll never find b-schools of equal repute or having higher repute than SIESCOMS in such situation and who keeps on acting suspiciously through out the admission process.
Again no offense to any person or community. SIESCOMS is still one of my dream colleges and I always will have high respect to the quality mangers it is churning out.
Regards