Great Success! List of BITSians to get admission into IIMs

Here’s the basic list of guys I know personally, I’m sure there are a hell more, so do keep updating the list through the comments section

2005 Batch
Aravind Vijayasarathy A,B,C,I,K
Ashwin Iyer B,C,L,I,K
Aditya Radhakrishnan I
Abhishek Humbad B,C,L,K
Ishan Bhanu C
Tushar A,B
Manavpreet Singh B,C,K
N Anerudh C
Karan Dhall B
Salil A
Astha Modi K
Ritesh Agrawal A

2004 Batch
R Vijay A,B

2003 Batch
Sriharsha Majety B,C

Waitlisted
Navin Madhavan (B Wait listed)
Ayshwarya Vikram (A waitlisted 6)
Anil Kumar K (B waitlisted 17)

Thanks to Tapan, Sushant, Garima Dhingra, Ajay Srinath for inputs

What happened to the Indian numbering system?

ET had a post reporting that IIM Lucknow would be hiking their fees for their 2 years program. It wasn’t very surprising given bigger brothers Calcutta and Ahmedabad hiked theirs in recent times.

What was surprising though, was this:

At present, IIM-L charges Rs.500,000 for the two-year programme and that is comparatively lower than the other IIMs in Kolkata, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

While the fee at IIM-Calcullta and Bangalore is Rs.900,000, IIM Ahmedabad charges Rs.1.1 million for the two-year programme. 

Rs 1.1 Million? Since when did we start following the American number system. The news item has been compiled by IANS which claims to report about Indian matters in an unbiased manner, but clearly there seems to be something wrong with this form of presentation.

It doesn’t make Indian education look economically cheaper than their American counterparts. Now “IIM Ahmedabad charges USD 22,000 for the two-year programme.” on the other hand drives the point (though I can already see you economists raise an eyebrow since the conversion made no use of the PPP) but despite that it comes out to be much cheaper when you look at it from a ROI point of view. 

BITSians in CAT 2008

Here’s a list of BITSians who have cleared CAT, I’m sure there are many more, just add the names, %tile and the calls that they have got in the comments section below.

Update: There are rumours flying around that BITS Pilani, has the highest number of call getters from any single institution in India. I don’t know the authenticity of that claim though.

Abhishek Humbad 2005-2009, 99.93%,

Aditya Radhakrishnan, 2005-2009, 99.8%,  C, I

Akhil Puri, 2005-2009, B & L

Aravind Vijayasarathy, 2005-2009, 99.96%, 6 calls

Ashwin Iyer, 2005-2009,99.9%

Astha Modi, 2005-2009, C (and some more)

Ayshwarya Vikram, 2005-2009, 99.7%,

Bharat Mimani, 2005-2009, S,                                    

Gaurav Lunia , 2005-2009 99.43% B, K & S

Harshit Didwania, 2005-2009, S

Ishan Bhanu, 2005-2009, 6 calls

Karan Dhall, 2005-2009, 99.83%, 6 calls

Krishna Mohan Radhakrishnan, 2005-2009, 99.7%,

Krishna Prasad 2003-2007, B

Kuhu Sharma, 2005-2009, K

Manav Preet Singh, 2005-2009, all calls,                       

Muralikrishnan Nair 2005-2009, 99.7%

Navin Madhavan, 2005-2009, 98.8%, B & S

Narayanan 2003-2008, A,C,L,K

Nikhil Agrawal, 2005-2009,S

R Vijay(Psyche), 2004-2008, S,L,A,B

Ritesh Agarwal, 2005-2009, A,B & S,

Shashank More,2005-2009,B,K,S,I,L                               

Sri Harsha Majety, 2003-2008, 99.97%, 6 calls

IIM CAT and BITSians. Results out!

The IIM results were out this morning, though not all at once. This year onwards, an extra IIM at Shillong was introduced(though one had to apply externally to the newbie). With the reservation shock handed to the CAT cleared junta in a smelly sack, I can only imagine the agony and frustration apart from the testicle crushing eagerness to know the result. Thankfully some of the seniors I knew personally have got through. So kudos to them. If you are aware of any BITSian who have got through just leave it as a comment, and yes a blog address would be helpful as well. So far I know only of:
Vernon Fernandez(IIM B), Rehan Jiwani(IIM C, IIM A WL 75), Dhruv Vishrani(Dum)(IIM L), Rakesh Lalwani (IIM A & IIM B), Saikat Banerjee (2002)(IIM B),Pavitra (Puppy) (IIM A), Swetha Raman(2002)(IIM L), Shrek(Music Clubber)(IIM C, IIMA WL 11)