The Indian Media essentially thinks of our society as a very intelligent fool , you know, and guess why do they do that ? Because they know we will lap it up .There are many examples ; but just for this time, I’ll discuss one aspect I want to write about.
There was a speculation based on a statistic that IIM Ahmedabad was more difficult to get into than Harvard Business School (Let us forget about Wharton/Sloan/Stanford for the time being). A lot of you know the logic already but I’ll explain it one more time.
Its very simple – IIM Ahmedabad selects roughly 250 out of 2.5 lakh CAT candidates with a success rate of .001 or 1 in 1000 and Harvard takes in around 100 candidates out 8000 giving a hit rate of about .0125 or 1 in 80.
The thing is , this statistic is all too wrong. The real fact is CAT is Common Aptitude Test and is an entrance exam to many colleges beyond IIM A or even BLICK. Not all of those 2.5 lakh CAT aspirants are aspirants of IIM A. Very few write the exam having a realistic chance of cracking IIM Ahmedabad. On the other hand barring a few who rely on a leap of faith ,most of the Harvard applicants have a realistic chance of cracking into it since sucha an application requires a lot of soul-searching (SOP) , previous enterprises (Social/community Service) or even a spark of genius (Read : Very high extra curricualrs) and lastly solid work experience (More than just Infosys/Wipro etc). Harvard gets to select the choicest choice of these applicants hence have a classroom full of extremely high potential and diversity in terms of both sex and educational backgrounds.
I am not saying IIM Ahd does not boast of the same but the above might be the reason why it does not rank regularly alongside the top B-schools of the world despite being so tough getting into. Both Harvard and IIM Ahd are very different b-Schools and have a different approach as well as methodology of admissions and it would be unfair to compare them and come out with a definitive one-on-one opinion.
i was searching the top b-school’s of the world & was shocked by not finding IIM-A in top 100’s also afyer read u’r blog & totally satisfied withe fact you had explained.
i was searching the top b-school’s of the world & was shocked by not finding IIM-A in top 100’s also afyer read u’r blog & totally satisfied withe fact you had explained.i was wandering to get out of of india but now my ultimate goal is to crack the cat &enter in IIM-A