Post made at Pagalguy about my GDPI's & my Profile

Hi everybody,

Finally the devil gets its dew.

Here's My profile and calls:

Acads:

Xth: 86.7 TN Matriculation
XIIth: 95.1 TN State Board
Grad: 8.17/10
College, Year: NIT Trichy, 2005
Discipline: Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Extra Currics:

Pretty decent: College Placement rep, Many quizzes, Dance, Drama etc

CAT Percentiles:

QA: 99.00
DI: 95.64
VA: 99.73

Overall: 99.81

Work Ex:

L&T Design -> 6 months
L&T Sales -> 16 months
Milagrow, A mgmt consulting start-up, directly reporting to CEO, amazing work -> 7 months

Total work ex: 29 months (My strongest point and my differentiating factor)

Calls: BLACKI + S

Attended: BLACKI

Converts: ABLIK (WL 31 at A which got converted)
Rejects: C

Joining: A

A:

Essay: Pretty shoddy work
PI: Very mediocre
Verdict: WL 31
Did I expect this? : No. I was expecting a reject
What would have attracted them: Probably my work profile

B:

GD+Essays: Good job done. SOP/Form was very good.
PI: I would say extremely good. Spoke very passionately and convincingly. They looked pretty impressed. I had clear thoughts on MBA's, Career paths etc
Verdict: Selected
Did I expect this: Yes

C:

GD: Good
PI: Pretty good and chill.
Verdict: Reject
Did I expect this?: No. I thought it will be a easy convert.
What would have bugged them: I asked about culture at C and asked the reason why its pretty chill etc. They became defensive. I felt it was a bad move from my side. But still feel an interview must not have been judged by that. Rest of my interview was chill. I could not figure out any other reason for reject.

L:

GD: Crappy topic. All spoke non sense
Essay: Again crappy topic and crappy essay
PI: Boring and uninteresting. Fully on economics. But did okayishly on a few topics.
Verdict: Selected
Did I expect this? : Not initially. I was initially expecting a reject. Then heard students with high percentiles usually convert L. Then became optimistic and thought will convert L.

I:

GD: Business case study. My strong area. Cracked it majorly.
PI: On my L&T technical work ex and Tamil Nadu history. Did decently here for sure.
Verdict: Selected
Did I expect this: Yes

K:

GD: Fishmarket. Told some 1-2 good points
PI: Clean sweep. I almost interviewed them for our start-up. Too chill. They treated me like a mature guy and gave due respect to my work exp etc.
Verdict: Selected
Did I expect this: 100%. I had no doubts. I told my friends that everyone may reject me, but not IIM K.

How things went for me:

My strength was the forms. I had clarity of thought on what I wanted to do and my work exp etc was very good. So, where ever I filled forms, and more importantly the panelists read it seriously, I had good chances. They formed a biased positive opinion about me before interview started and it made my job easy. It happened majorly at K, to some extent at B and I. A and C, surprisingly did not bother much about the form and that was disadvantageous for me. L form was pretty useless for me since no qns had to be answered.

My 3 strong points:

-work ex (job profile: start-up, mgmt consulting, reporting to CEO etc + L&T work ex)
-Can speak very well. No problem in conversing/communicating.
- Very good idea about all post MBA careers, MBA life, types of schools, how I want to achieve whatever I have set out for etc. So, typically they would not have heard any kiddish answers from me. (I had worked on preparing for an US MBA. That requires a person to have a good understanding of all this.)