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CoolAvenues' Classics And wait, the worst is yet to come, and it is too scary to believe when one of the faculty will come and advice you to opt out (sign off in respectable tone) of the placement process for the good of college and to maintain its 100% placement record. You will be told that the college will take care of you, if you just do this favor... (Unlike US B-Schools, majority of the B-Schools in India, irrespective of their ranking in the chart, misrepresent the data related to salaries and number of offers.) And the fact that these students are the best ones, chosen through CAT with admission percentage of 0.5%, as compared to Harvard and Wharton's 13% admission rates, fade in background. No one wants to recruit these "unfortunate ones"! And says one unfortunate student, "I never thought going to mess or library or Faculty area, could be so depressing..so humiliating. It felt awful as all eyes turned towards me. Most looked with sympathy, some thought we had spoiled a 'bumper placement'. I have never felt so low". Says another, "I stopped going to mess or out of my room in dorm. My fellow dormmates would stop laughing whenever I walked in, and start talking serious as if in some sort of funeral and it made me miserable." Still others reminded, "Get placed soon... so that we have a placement party soon for juniors and go home." "It becomes a drudgery to get dressed up again and walk across the campus to interview room in Blazers'n'tie, alone, praying to God that you meet no fellow students on the way. And the walk back - with drooping shoulders and low head - was one of the most traumatic experience of my life," says another. And if you think that this is horrible, think about your neighbours and your parents who have read about those bumper salaries and 100% placement stories. "Cheer up, the worst is yet to come!"
Day Zero: By CoolAvenues Research Team
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