Class of 2008 - An example of Ugaadi Pachadi

Indeed! the Class of 2008 at ISB is an awsome mixture of varied fileds and personalities just like our Ugaadi Pachadi, a taste of sweet, sour and bitter, with its motley crowd of students with wide variety of work experience. About 58 per cent of the students are from the pharma, manufacturing industry, shipping, FMCG, healthcare, media, medicine, civil services, armed forces, education and research and advertising. While students with engineering degree constitute 59 per cent.

Class 2008 is very stimulating with a diverse group- journalists, architects, scientists, advertising executives, IAS officers, film producer, MTV Model Hunt winner, chartered accountants, people from armed forces, entrepreneurs, radio jockey, and a host of other professionals. The number of doctors and professionals from the media industry, in the class has gone up to ten each this year from the previous year's six.

The number of women students has increased from 20 per cent in the Class of 2007 to 25 per cent in the Class of 2008, making the ISB, the leading Indian B-school with the largest percentage of women in its class. In addition to the 23 international students,the class has 63 NRIs.

Courtesy : The Hindu

Third meeting at Barista Coffee House

It's again. Our Core Group has met with R-2 applicants at Barista Coffe House, Jubilee Hills. I also attended this meeting with other Core Group members, Rajeev Bharadwaj (Class of 2008 - Queens, Canada), Aalla Kiran Kumar (Class of 2008-ISB), Sravanthi (Class of 2008-ISB), P Arun Kumar (Class of 2008-ISB), Lakshmikanth (Class of 2008-ISB) and Gajanan Pujari (Class of 2008-ISB) and three R-2 applicants from Hyderabad, Avinash (Avi), Avinash and Soujanya.

I congratulated all the members of the Core Group who have become ISB's Class of 2008 and Rajeev for becoming member of Class of 2008 in Queen's School of Business, Canada. Then, we discussed each of our plans for next ten years (Where we would like to be after 10 years hence now?). We clarified some of the doubts raised by R-2 applicants. We suggested to have one more meeting after the calls for Hyderabad applicants come through. I must thank Avinash to invite me personally to the meeting, though I did not get through ISB's admission process.

ISB Interview Dates for Round-2

As per the website of ISB, the following are the tentative interview dates in cycle-2:

Chennai 28 – 30 December, 06
Kolkata 28 – 30 December, 06
Bangalore 04 – 07 January, 07
New Delhi 11 – 14 January, 07
Pune 13 – 14 January, 07
Mumbai 18 – 21 January, 07
Hyderabad 25 – 31 January, 07
International 25 – 31 January, 07

As per the site, these are tentative dates and are subject to change without any notice in view of circumstances beyond their control. Decision of the Admissions Committee is final.

Usually for shortlisted candidates for interview, they get interview calls approximately one week before the scheduled date. If you have given your mobile number in your application, message will come first, and then e-mail and then your online status will change.