This is not a CAT success story, so please don't waste your precious time; unless you have a lot of that. 
After reading many of the PUY's stories, finally i also decided to write a few lines to open my heart in this sacred thread.
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This particular result has reinforced my faith in following No Strategy.
So this was my story, I hope u won't get bored by my boring story.
Currently I am waiting for a call from SPJAIN as some of my seniors have rekindled the hope in me for the same. So plz wish me luck.
Exactly 3 years and 2 months after I wrote the quoted post in this thread I have been again thinking to write another post in this thread.
Some observations before carrying on ahead:-
- This thread has grown leaps and bounds since I wrote here previously. (to be exact, there are 581 posts right now, 1138 posts are deleted which no one except mods can see)
- I was a normal user at that time (3 years ago) when I wrote that post.
- I was overwhelmed to see this thread 3 years ago and just poured my heart open on to it to write a story which might have bored many.
- Even now, I am a normal user writing here, not a super moderator.:)
- I think I have grown too old and now I can command some attention here (not as a mod but as an experienced user)
- Thanks to visioniim-acl for encouraging me to write this post. π
- I have not been able to get admission in any bschool and I have stopped chasing that. May be because I was tired and diverted my route. π
So, carrying on ahead from where I left, I didn't get a call from SP Jain that year. On seeing my XAT score, I was so much depressed that why I didn't apply for PMIR program in XLRI.
I wrote MHCET after that and MAT too, where I scored some 99.8x percentile which would be totally useless for JBIMS. After a dry season, I carried on with my IT job and got more and more disinterested in my work, as is the case with many puys who are working in India in IT sector.
Anyway, I prepared hard for CAT 2009 season, enrolled for TIME and CL test series and wrote all the exams again. I was not a mock test cracker and that thing kept me alive and kicking. That is the sole reason that I never uploaded my scores in the mock test repositories threads.:oops:
Can't remember now what percentile rank I achieved in CAT 2009, but I had no IIM calls and no allied calls too. I had cracked the NMAT and SNAP, hence received calls from SIBM pune, SCMHRD Pune and NMIMS core MBA. I went to attend those interviews in Pune and Mumbai respectively. That was the first time that I went to these two happening places in India.:)
I got rejected in SIBM and wait-listed in SCMHRD and NMIMS. I didn't bother to check the SCMHRD status and neither the NMIMS status. Then, I wrote MHCET and MAT again with another 99.8x score, insufficient for JBIMS. After losing all hopes for the season, I again started working as usual. Somewhere in June 2009, I got an email from NMIMS that my wait-list was cleared and they had offered me a seat. I was joyous but had already decided not to join MBA that year. Seeing the 3.5 lakh INR fees first installment, I confirmed myself that I would not join there.
Work went on as usual after that, kept on switching between bench and projects for a long time. I learned that CAT was going online now, thought that I should write this online CAT. So I enrolled for the mock tests by CL and took them religiously. Also, this time I decided to write only CAT and XAT, no other exams. Wrote CAT and after the whole fiasco, got some 90.xx something percentile. I was not at all disappointed, in fact I laughed at myself and online CAT too. π
XAT didn't offer me anything promising and I was quite calm by now. I had applied for SP Jain MBA third time in a row, thinking that my profile could get me a call. To my joy, I got SP Jain profile based call in Information Management. I joined the GD-PI preparation programs hoping to convert my sole call. Finally I attended the interview for SP Jain at IIFT Delhi. To my disappointment I was rejected in the first round itself. I was so much pissed off
with the SP Jain process that I wrote one big email to the admissions committee, the directors and related professors at SP Jain; the reply to which I am awaiting till now. I continued working and it was growing more and more painstaking for me.
Kahani main twist.
In May 2010, I got a work visa for New Zealand. I was so happy that I would visit a foreign country for the first time in my life. I planned to come to NZ in September and search for a relevant job here. I resigned from office in August 2010 and got released in 5 days, so much pissed off I was. Traveled to Wellington next month and started looking for jobs. I lived with my best friend there.:cheerio:
I tried hard for 4 months and couldn't find a job. Thankfully, my friend supported me morally and financially. I was having such bad luck that once, on the very first day of joining a contract job, I was told to go back as there was no work available. I was shattered to the core. I used to cry when I was alone. That was really a testing period for me. I used to think why I came outside India and that too after leaving my worthless but still paying job.:|
I had planned to come back to India in June 2011 and was losing my patience. So much demoralized I was that I didn't bother checking the results of my job interviews and applications. By that time, I had applied for 350+ jobs and have received rejections from them. I went to Auckland to attend a job interview and despite a good interview, I was sure I would not get the offer.
After a week, I received an email from the MD of the company that I had been selected for that position. I can't describe my state of mind at that time. I was so overwhelmed that I went to the nearby beach and cried for more than an hour. After that I regained some emotional balance to tell my friends and parents about the success.:D
I joined work in Auckland, the very next week. After working here for more than 2 months, I have learned:-
- Patience pays, finally. π
- I am the youngest (by age) at my workplace.:shocked:
- 50% people, whom I work with, have experience which is numerically greater than my age in years.
- No one at my work place had an MBA degree. Some are only diploma holders and have been working for more than 20 years.
- The job profile, in which I am working right now, is only available to the MBA graduates in India. π
I have completely dropped my plans for an MBA now, at least for 10 years.
I wanted to pursue an MBA in India because I wanted to have a good salary. No career development, position, work environment or such non-sense. My motive was clear to me right from the start.
Not to boast of anything I have achieved, I want to write here that on a monthly basis I save the amount of INR which my counterparts from top 10 B-schools, earn monthly in India.
If someone asks me about MBA, I never suggest anyone not to go for it. However, I always tell them the costs included and other critical points involved in it, so that they can make an informed decision.
Right from the beginning, the whole system of attending an MBA interview at an IIM or any top B-school, trying to convince the interview panel that you are not here for money, but for some f***ing 'value addition', 'career growth', 'peer group', 'faculty' etc. etc., seemed absurd and nonsense to me.
May be that's why I was never able to get into a b-school successfully.
This was the concern I raised in the email which I wrote to SP Jain committee. At one hand they say 'we follow the Bhagvad Gita principles in management' and on the other hand they expect the aspirants to lie and boast that 'we don't want money, we want value addition' because if the aspirant tells straightway, then he is not going to be selected anyway. I strictly oppose this system.
I'd like to advise the aspirants that please do your own maths and physics and chemistry and whatever
, before joining the IIM, CAT, XAT rat race.I was also an aspirant once and have learned this after disappointments.
As I have mentioned, I always wanted to earn money and have a good lifestyle. But I could not think out of the box because I didn't have that guts and risk taking capability.
Now when I have a look at the past 3-4 years I feel that I have completely wasted them, chasing a crazy cat. If I had utilized them in my own technical field, I could have been earning twice or thrice more than what I am doing right now. (And I have calculated it, I am not joking here.) π
I really feel very disappointed, when people fight over the forum about 'my B-school bestest' thing and don't want to realize that after getting that coveted job from the campus, no one is going to ask the name of the B-school from where they passed out. Their work will be the only indicator of the appraisal and recognition they get.
I have got such a great community in the form of PG and so many valuable friends that I really feel lucky. Just because I wish everyone's better future and success in their endeavors, I have written this post here.
I should stop writing now, as many of you might have fallen asleep.
PS: the mod returns.
please don't post your replies here. I have a big PM Inbox where you can send your views, feedback and queries.
Those of you who want to have a look at the email which I sent to SP Jain committee can PM me. π
Best of luck to all. π
Ya I got somewhat scared, I cant do that work, I studied,l I studied like dogs and Yes I got 89% in 2003 boards. Yeah my confidence grown. I started believing in my self so do my parents. Parallely a love story was brewing since class 9th. I went to coaching 1st time for my 11th class entrance. 360 seats for 15000 students, 50% reserved. My newly born confidence and enthusiasm with my hard work got me through. I was selected in XYZ ( a govt university, where my fees from 11th class till my b.tech was less than 10000 total):cheerio:. My confidence turned in to overconfidence. In 11th I got 43%. Got through my 12th class with 60% ( little i knew it will haunt me rest of my life) becuz I got admission in B.tech in same university. Again I became overconfident and didnt go to classes instead i enjoyed. Result: YEARBACK... WTF cuz my attendance was less than 60%. I gave my entrance test again and took a fresh admission in same college and same branch. Thankfully this time the teachers were different in 1st year that saved me frm becoming a laughing 
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Research. The internet gave me this kind of a thought-train. IIMs means good money. Engineers rule IIMs. Hence B.Tech. IITs best B.Techs. Hence IITs. Hence Science in XII. :cheerio:
(Yes I was good in if-else programming. The little I learnt with Java in Xth )
The reject from Credit Suisse two months back, made it all the more sweet, what with my IIMC friends vociferously lauding a front desk job ahead of a KPO.:cheerio:
I was so buoyed up for the interview. Which is when everything went horribly wrong. 
Called up my parents and explained everything. But it was C-Day tomorrow, my beloved IIM, my everything-that-matters day. 
Interesting to note though, my IIMC was easily the longest of all the interviews in my batch lasting a mammoth 35 minutes. We talked about everything under the sun my startup in detail, my trading habits in general, my IIMA intern etc. My GDPI experience left me with a lot of good friends made mostly over casual chatting during the long wait between essay/GD and the personal interviews. It was one month to results. 
But somehow, following the interviews had grown increasingly nervous about the results, and almost expected in preparation for the C results on 10th April. (Since they had released the results on the same date 2 years back to back). But this year, with ABC teaming up, all three decided to come up with their lists on the 18th.