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prabhu7121

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13 Oct 2024, 04:32

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Hello,

Any input on the WL movement? Will it move at the end of all three rounds?

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13 Oct 2024, 04:35

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To admitted candidates, what is the deadline for submission of the first and second commitment fee?
Waitlist movement should depend on how many admits choose to not accept offer in R1

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13 Oct 2024, 04:39

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First Commitment fee by 18th Oct and Second by 25th Oct

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Some points may also be repeated in the Awards section? Is it okay to have overlaps across all 3 sections or should points be modified?

Some overlap is expected and acceptable. It will reinforce a coherent narrative across your profile. Wherever possible, re-write the points in a way such that sentences don’t seem very repetitive while still communicating the essence of the message you want to put across

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13 Oct 2024, 09:35

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Does anybody have any suggestion as to how unsuccessful candidates can figure out why they didn't make it? Any recommendations for ding analysis? I thought my interview went well. And I have a unique profile as it is. I was optimistic about my chances of getting in but now I feel lost. Looking for help figuring out what went so wrong that I didn't get even waitlisted, straight-up rejected.

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13 Oct 2024, 10:00

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RiyaJain69

Does anybody have any suggestion as to how unsuccessful candidates can figure out why they didn’t make it? Any recommendations for ding analysis? I thought my interview went well. And I have a unique profile as it is. I was optimistic about my chances of getting in but now I feel lost. Looking for help figuring out what went so wrong that I didn’t get even waitlisted, straight-up rejected.

Lot of things depend on interview panel. Just consider it a bad day. Don’t underestimate yourself and focus on other college admits.

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13 Oct 2024, 12:12

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Hello, any whats@pp group for R1 admits?

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13 Oct 2024, 22:00

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Hello, I failed to convert from interview to admit this year. I am looking to start my GMAT prep again from the scratch. Anyone who is interested to sell out their prep materials, or Official guides to me can reach out. It will be highly appreciated and valuable. Thank you.

passingthru

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RiyaJain69

There's a reply on the last page of last year's thread that gives an IIMA prof's insight on what they look for.
You could also post your profile and interview debrief here, that might help us offer a view.
A better way ahead would be to work with a professional in case you didn't this time. Since you have some time ahead, it would actually allow you to go in depth and try to plug whatever gaps you identify.

Wishing you the best for the rest of the admin cycle!

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14 Oct 2024, 00:50

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Hi! Query regarding the question of managerial position!!

I held a managerial position only during the last year of my 4-year tenure at firm. Would it be misrepresentation to still put 'Yes' under managerial position?

How else should I put it? There's not much change in role to warrant a separate entry under employment.

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14 Oct 2024, 01:15

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Can people who applied in R-1 again apply in R-3? In previous years I think this was allowed.. Anyone knows about this?

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There’s a reply on the last page of last year’s thread that gives an IIMA prof’s insight on what they look for.
You could also post your profile and interview debrief here, that might help us offer a view.
A better way ahead would be to work with a professional in case you didn’t this time. Since you have some time ahead, it would actually allow you to go in depth and try to plug whatever gaps you identify.

Wishing you the best for the rest of the admin cycle!

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Can you link the thread?

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14 Oct 2024, 01:45

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Can people who applied in R-1 again apply in R-3? In previous years I think this was allowed.. Anyone knows about this?

you can apply only once per year

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Hi. I have seen that post you're talking about. I did work with an admission consultant this year. (And I blurted this in my interview, that the first time I applied, I did it on my own and made some mistakes but this time I worked with a consultant. Maybe this went against me.) My interview experience is here:

I interviewed today. It was a chill experience. No element of stress interview at all. One prof was friendly and smiling, the other maintained a poker face. I didn't time the interview but it felt like 20-25 minutes. I didn't have a lot to talk in extempore so that part didn't stretch, and the remaining Q&A didn't last too long.
I got asked why MBA, why I didn't get selected the last time I interviewed (I'm a reapplicant). I got to talk about struggles in my profession (I'm a journalist). They brought up that I didn't join IIM Calcutta (I was selected last year), and I used this opportunity to answer why IIMA. The interview was a free-flowing conversation, where the smiling prof asked a few things about the state of journalism. I was surprised when they said, ok, thank you. They didn't ask me if I had any questions, but I asked one nonetheless. There were toffees and cookies on the table, but I wasn't offered either. Some other candidates (they all had panels different from mine) said they were offered a toffee. I'll try not to read too much into it. The others too said that their interview was fine. By fine, we all meant that they didn't press us or test us, but that it was a pleasant conversation and we don't know how to assess it.

My extempore topic: One nation one election is a threat to democracy.
Someone else's topic: Content on social media should be censored.

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Is the deadline for round 2 at 11:59pm or 5pm?

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Is the deadline for round 2 at 11:59pm or 5pm?

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Where did you read 5pm?

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+1 Interview actually went very well for me as well. and profile was good too. Is there any way we can reach out to admission comimitte to understand why we were rejected ?

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I have gmat fe score of 615. Should I apply in this round? Please suggest

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Hi all, I have GRE score of 310, 5 years of good work ex, Tier 1 engineering college. Should I apply in this round? Please help.

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Originally posted by jm2k5 on 14 Oct 2024, 06:07.
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Hey,

From your brief, i can directly spot a few red flags.

1. When you say you didn’t have a lot to talk in the extempore, that’s a pretty decent red flag. You got an absolutely terrific topic about current affairs. You should have talked hours about it. And it’s not about the topic itself, but what your personal insights are about the topic. If your insights are good and demands discussion in depth, the professor will intervene to dig deeper.
But if you give a factual answer right from the newspaper article, there is no point of discussion. If you don’t put forward your opinions, the professor thinks that you have none. You probably mugged up all newspaper articles in the last few days. Who knows ? The extempore is a way to show professors how you introspect. How you can latch onto a topic and dig deeper without any reference, inside your own head.
My extempore literally turned into a civil argument and I ended up asking one of the professors to give an example to back up what he was saying. He was pleasantly surprised but he surely retaliated with an example which was very weak. So I cornered that argument with more solid examples. But since mine was a stress interview, the prof straight up dismissed my pov and said I was an idiot 😂😂.

2. Don’t bring your sob story to the table. I don’t understand from your write-up if they directly asked you about your struggles, or you segued into it. But if they didn’t directly ask, they’d get an impression that you try to leverage your situations using sob stories so that people would feel bad about you.
But if they did directly ask you about your struggles, you should use that situation to tell them what you’ve achieved despite those struggles. Focussing on the achievements and not the struggles.

3. If you walked into the interview thinking that you have a unique profile, you straight-up sabotaged yourself before the interview even started. When you are applying for the top B-School in the country, no profile is unique. I think a little bit of humility in this regard will get you a lot further.

4. When you say you had a good interview, do you mean you felt good after the interview because you didn’t get cross questioned ? That is usually a sign of a bad interview. An interviewer who is interested in you will cross question you and try to gain perspective into who you are. They’ll challenge you to introspect and draw you out of your comfort zone.

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