Man literally this is the best place....seeing people posting about their converts make me so happy...never thought that i would be so happy for others but have seen all of them struggle so much now seeing them convert their dream b-school is so satisfying....wish I'll also convert mine...!!!
Any idea on IIMB PGP BA waitlist movement last year
IIM B pgpba reviews? Internship reports etc ?
Even though I knew that converting IIM B PGP was a long shot, the rejection still hurts tbh. Dayum. Needed to vent. Sorry.
[Long post!] Alright, with the Bangalore PGPBA convert here I've got another anecdote for you guys - this one taught me that sometimes, panelists can grill you a lot but that might just be a test of your composure. Keep a smile and admit that you messed up. It's only human to do so.
I had 3 panelists in my IIMB panel. P1 was sweet as heck, she was smiling and reciprocative to everything I said. P3 was, for the most part, stern and had a rapid-fire style of interviewing. P2 was one of the harshest panelists I'd ever had. The most stern, poker-faced guy you can imagine.
My experience with P1 was smooth. She questioned me on basic probability and statistics and I knew she was happy with my responses.
When it came to P2, he started off immediately with my internship (no hi, no howdy - he never as little as smiled the whole time!), the software I used, the models I used, the courses I undertook as a Mechanical Engineer to segue into Data Science. Supervised models, unsupervised models, SVMs - just go through my post history and read up, this was crazy as heck.
He then told me one of the most iconic statements I'll take away this year lmao: "I worked on the same project you did. That was 20 years ago, and we've come a long way since. I don't think you've done anything different than what I did - can you prove me wrong?"
I was stumped, I hadn't revised the previous work in the field, and even though I'd done the research back in 2019 and knew it wasn't some stupid decades-old stuff recycled, I had zero recall at the time. I just smiled, asked for a minute to which he said "Sure." and looked into his phone straight away. After a minute of trying my best, I told him that I couldn't recall a thing and that I should've revised everything about my project but I didn't. Told him I'd read up again, in case this gets asked somewhere else and smiled again.
After this, P3 was again stern, rapid fire HR questions: "Why MBA?" "Why this program?" and on my workex for a solid 5min. Then she hit me with a "Do you think the government should meddle into whether people are allowed to smoke weed?" to which I just replied that people were adults, and should be allowed to consume whatever they wish, the onus being on them to take care, gave example of Himanchal Pradesh and the US. She disagreed but I didn't budge (which is my standard nature, if the argument doesn't seem logical).
Sooo, yeah that sums it up. Long post, but the takeaway is that you gotta maintain composure even if sh!t goes down, and just stand your ground, man - if you've got facts. Won't take up any more real estate here. Best of luck for your calls!
Trying to check Shillong result *Pta nhi in hain ya out....
People posting about converting/losing out on their best call.
Here I am, don't even know what my best call is :P
guys, i have an isb ylp admit (do not want to go here as i want 2 year mba), and a 9/9/9 profile with stellar extra curriculars.
i might clear xlri bm this year, besides iimk, iimi, iimb-ba etc.
i also have a job in hand.
if i clear bm, should i go to XL (as it fits all my needs, small class size etc)
or should i drop a year and try for iim a?
asking also because i got 97%ile in cat with zero prep, so if i prepped maybe i'd get a call from A? or maybe i'll tank if my performance was luck based...
im general, engineer.
- i am also confused…
- try for iim a next year
- go to XL
- go to ISB
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6th convert of the season, IIM Shillong!
First reject of the season: IIM S. Got XIMB and a couple but I let go of them. The way my MDI interview went, I'm not sure if I should expect anything. I was so damn confident of getting S. Atleast waitlisted. It hurts. You question your abilities, your time and effort spent, everything. Yes there are CAP colleges to go but with my confidence shot to pieces, I'm not even sure I'll get anything.
I could cry about this, and I probably will for the time being, but I am hoping there are better things ahead for me.
To everyone who managed to convert the best calls - Congratulations.
To everyone who didn't - Keep at it, there's more to life than another rat-race.
Here's to not spiraling & overthinking.
Peace.
1st convert of the season : IIM Shillong
eagerly waiting for L and K
IIM Shillong Converted! Not joining MBA this year, so yeah that's what it was. CAT'21 it will be.
Calls : IIM Lucknow, Kozhikode, Shillong, CAP, Nagpur, Amritsar, Vizag, Rohtak, MICA, XIMB, MDI Gurgoan, NMIMS Mumbai, IIFT, DBE, DFS, SIBM.
I am totally hopeless bcs got rejected from all the good interviews I had (I thought)
NMIMS Mumbai - Reject
MICA - Reject
SIBM - Reject
XIMB - Reject
IIM Shillong - Reject
DBE,DFE - Waitlist (No interview)
What to do? I'm totally blank, rest interviews were not even good or considerable.
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Waitlisted at 600 in shillong Keh do koi chance h wrna ek reject aur jod looo
1st reject of the season : IIM Shillong
The only thing that's been going on in my mind is the question asked by one of the panelist. "Tell me about climate change" and I said "Nothing"
Not sure about the climate but it surely has changed my future a lot.
First reject of the season: IIM Shillong Best interview experience of the season too. Not my best call but THE call I wanted to and was confident I would definitely convert. Rejected, dejected and depressed. Is this a red herring or an omen of what's to come next?
A tale of two interviews – How god-f*cking-forsaken the PI process is
IIMA - Easily the best interview I’ve had this PI season. Both the panelists were sweet, looked happy with my answers, never showed any signs of disappointment when I got an answer wrong, cracked jokes, and had a hearty laugh. I was bustling with joy for the rest of my day. I considered myself lucky that my most important PI was the one that went the best.
Verdict - Reject
IIMB (a few days after IIMA PI) - Easily my second worst PI of the season. Was asked quite daunting questions on acads in the first half of the interview, and the resulting lack of confidence due to the first half showed in the second. I blabbered my way through the second half. Had it not been for the shitshow earlier, I would have aced these questions. I looked at the time on my desktop twice through the length of the interview. I thought, IIMA would be a sure-shot convert, who needs IIMB ? I was praying to the gods-that-be to end the humiliation. But it wasn’t to be.
Caveat 1 - Felt the first professor gave me a lot of chances to correct myself in the acads-based questions. I was quite surprised. It was like he was goading me into getting the answers right.
Caveat 2 - The second professor asked me at the end of the interview, “If you convert IIMB, which one out of MBB would you like to work in ?” I was like, “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” There was no way I was converting IIMB after that interview.
Verdict - Convert
Now, to give you a summary of my background, I am a 9/9/9 GEM fresher with 99.94 %ile in CAT. If you take into consideration the 10 marks for work experience in IIMB final selection process, you can imagine how unlikely it was for me to convert after a shitty PI. And yet, I did.
This brings me to the point I am trying to make. The PI process of all these coveted IIMs is a f*cked-up piece-of-sh*t. I felt hurt when I didn’t convert IIMA. But it made me realize the worth of the process. I had apprehensions about the process from the very start, the sheer subjectivity and lack of transparency around it, but I convinced myself somehow to go through it anyway. And what I’ve realized is that it ain’t worth sh*t . Had I not converted both, it would have been down to my stupidity to have incorrectly assessed my chances at IIMA. I would have accepted that the fault lay with me for overestimating my chances and that the interview did not go as well as I thought it went.
Just to clarify, this is not a vent because some college rejected me. Many deserving candidates might have been rejected by IIMA. And many more still by IIMB. How do I know? Because I am one of those with a shitshow of an interview who has taken their seat, without having to do much for it. I don’t even feel happy for converting IIMB, not because it is inferior to IIMA (some think this way, not me), but that someone with a better PI might have not been able to make it there, because of me. I know how it feels to be rejected after doing everything in your control right.
Whatever conclusion you draw from your experience and mine, I have come to believe that the PI process in its current avatar does more harm than good, and I bet no mortal can ever convince me otherwise. Some might still believe in the sanctity of the process and go nuts when they convert some college. Go on, freaks! And the rest will curse their fate for choosing to be a part of a process that should not have any place in a saner world.
XLRI Jamshedpur BM: converted !
Didn't expect any less but still very grateful.
IIM Shillong V/s SBM, NMIMS
Any suggestions which one is better?