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NOTE: These events are taking place in a less-developed country, and not in Americas or European countries.
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18th December 2022: I visited the institute X for getting an idea of its campus and location to other major areas - such as airport and railway station. I went into the admission cell, and a woman, been in-charge to hunt for students, asked me if I wanted to ask something, to which I replied that I had to have some informations about their MBA program. She asked me some details, like name, phone number, email, address et al. I provided those to her, and she left me by saying that I shall be informed when the application forms gonna be available.
4th January 2023: I received a call from the same woman and she asked me to fill the application form as it had become available, I asked what was the fees of the application and got to know that it was quite high, so I requested her to please give me a few days so that I can talk with my family regarding it, but she was like "do it fast, else the date will end", but she was keeping the deadline from me. In fact, due to her constant pressure, I became the first one to fill that form with that heavy fees (but it was not on 4th Jan, if I recall correctly, I filled it on 7th Jan). I came to know that the deadline was 28th Jan. She also asked me to apply for GMAT. The fees of GMAT is exorbitantly high when converted to my country's currencies, but it was inevitable.
22nd January 2023: Got a call from the same woman telling me that the interview was set for 30th Jan. The fact is, this institution is located at a place 729km from my home-town, and even by train it takes 14 hours (no direct flight from my home district), booking hotels and arranging other things within a week is not as difficult as you think (it is much more than that). So, I requested her that I shall not be able to make it there at such a short notice, during our application we were never told that the interview would be held on 30th Jan, else I had made up the arrangements. She said, "Okay, we will schedule a second round of interview and you can appear in that." I felt a little doubtful here, as to why would they hold a second round of interview if their seats get filled in this round only (and in my country the college sessions start from July, there is no winter session or fall session or spring session or summer session, there is just one point of departure, that is July. But all the other colleges begin their admissions usually in April or June, because it is at this time the school/college session ends and the results come out. It was quite strange to hold a selection process in January).
12th March 2023: The woman called me and informed me that my interview was scheduled for 18th March, I reluctantly agreed to it. And then I received this email
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There was a lack of coordination among the members of that institute, because when I called on the staffs of Admission Cell about inquiring if they also be needing my 10th Grade, 12th Grade and under-graduation Report Cards (and it is very natural for every college to require that, but they didn't write that in their email), that person replied to me, "Yeah, bring it", to which I said, "but don't you have it online from my portal where my application is submitted?", he replied unusually "do you have some problem in bring those docs?", I felt a bit uneasy and said, "of course, carrying original documents and that too, so much of them is not such an easy task, I'm coming from more than 700km". But I finally took all of them.
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18th March 2023: I reached the venue. They gave me a slip to fill the details, and after giving it I got the serial number 28. After 1-1/2 hours my turn came, and in our group they send 5 applicants, two girls and 3 boys. When we entered the room of group discussion, we had three interviewers/moderators present there already, the middle of them was a middle-aged man, to his left was a woman of mid-thirties and his right was another man, maybe of the same age as the middle man. The girls of our group were made to sit at the shorter side of the rectangular table, and the boys on the longer side, only three of the four sides of the table was occupied by us so that the moderators could be communicated through from the open side, they were sitting around 8 feet away from the empty side of the table, and all of us were facing them. The middle man introduced himself and his lefty and his righty, the lady moderator smiled when she was introduced, but the righty man was shaking his head up-and-down, as if he was the President of some country, on being introduced by the middle man. The middle man was himself, a genial one. I forgot to point out that we were made to sit on revolving chairs, not the four-legged ones.
We were asked to introduce ourselves, starting from the girl sitting at the shorter side further from me. I don't know why but this girl began her introduction by telling her age, and ended up by telling her hobbies, and I was quite astonished how come some people keep their hobbies alive even at stage of grad school, is it only me for whom the life has shed its colours? The two boys introduced themselves in the same way, maybe they were thinking if they don't get an admission offer after the interview they might get another kind of offer from the girls, but I don't know how it ended for them. Upon my turn I simply told my name and the course I took in under-graduation, that was the only relevant thing, I guess.
After this short talk, they asked us to write an essay in 10 minutes on the sheets kept before us, with the pencil given. There was also an eraser and a sharpener before every candidate and I couldn't help noticing that the boy adjacent to me was trying to use every equipment that was provided, maybe his aim was that the mods might think the guy will become a good manager as he is using every resource available, and again I don't know how it ended for him. The topic of the essay was: "Women will prove to be better managers than men". I took the anthropological route for my essay, and tried to show up that in past 20,000 years it is women only who are in-charge of maintaining house-holds, and I even quoted the last lines of T.S. Eliot's "Prelude", ".... like ancient women gathering fuels in their vacant lot". But I ended up dialectically that house-hold managing cannot be simply equated with corporate managing and no scientific and statistical data has proved the statement, so, women might be as good as men but not necessarily better.
After the submission of these sheets, they asked our views on the same topic on-by-one (beginning with the same girl) and I was quite bored by this time, I got that these mods aren't really checking our qualities, because the statement on which we had to write the essay was a burning political one and was not related with Public/Private Administration/Management theory. I was expecting something rigorous and study-related. However, it had to go that way. Every other members of my group were simply re-iterating the same point again and again that women shall be better as they are good house-hold managers, and none of them backed their statements with any logic or study. When my turn came, I gave them a critical picture of that, not simply conforming to the popular ideology. The middle man said my point was strong, and the lady-mod said "yes, right".
Once again, they asked us to discuss the same topic among us (one topic was squeezed three times, so as not to miss a single drop of juice from it, I'm quite thankful to nature that this topic was not an orange). The girls were having shriller voices, the two boys were simply putting all their efforts in over- agreeing with them, they, I guess, changed their priority from an MBA admission to the proposal of a date on the very same date, and again I don't know how it ended for them. I simply spoke two times in that discussion, and my point was that the statement said "better", and only natural science or statistics can prove that word, we cannot simply back it up with our personal examples. The mods finally eded the discussion.
To make the short story short, the personal interviews with the actual professors were arranged, and within 20 minutes my turn came up. I entered the room of interview, and out of three seats only the leftmost was filled. He told me that two other interviewers had just gone to wash their hands after some snacks, and I was simply looking at their plates which was still there and thought that it wasn't a good idea to have some snacks at 1:45 PM. Anyways, the prof. was feeling bored as he had waited almost for 7 minutes, and ended up asking me what I was studying and how I came to know about the institute, I replied honestly. Then the rightmost chairperson came up, she was a lady prof. of Marketing, and even after entering the room she was still drying her hands with her handkerchief. They didn't wait for the middle prof. and began asking me some very general questions, not a single question could check my knowledge of under-graduation. They asked me with which field I would like to do my MBA, I replied HR and backed it up by saying that labourers are the main factors of production and a corporate can be made successful only by managing them, Marketing and Finance are secondary to labourers. She tried to put the importance of Marketing, but it was all with extreme passiveness, not even looking at me.
To be honest, they were bored, and here I got very suspicious of them, my interview lasted only for 5 minutes, and in these 5 minutes the leftmost prof. asked me three times of how I got to know about the institute, and they asked weird questions as of what my father does, and why I don't want to continue the profession of my father. Finally, it ended up and they allowed me to leave.
When I came down by the stairs and was just leaving, the woman who used to call me for application asked me if my interview was done and I reposted, "Yes". She told me to wait upto 22nd March and if something doesn't come to my email, then "....". I left the building, quite sure that I would make it and I was allowed to submit my GMAT score in May, as I'm having my UG exams in April.
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22nd March passed. 4 more days passed. No emails, no calls.
28th March: I called the person in admission cell and ask candidly about my interview, at first he was quite unsure and told me he is not the right person to ask about the results of interview. But within a few seconds, he told me that he was sorry that I got rejected. This didn't give me any trembles. I simply asked him on what basis did they reject me, they didn't even check any of the documents of previous schooling and GMAT score is yet to be uploaded, what's the basis of rejection; he said the reason is confidential.
I'm feeling all this to be a fraud because my group discussion session and interview went fine, and none of the interviewees on that day had any better qualifications than me (though none of the docs were checked on that day) and many were 2-3 years older than me (at least the girl who told her age was an year older). The main argument which I would like to put here is, the Universities are free to choose the candidates they like to admit, Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, all do the same, but the selection process should be rational. I don't think Harvard simply rejects the candidates by telling them "we received better applications this year, and we're sorry we cannot admit you", what does "better application" means? In case of Ivy League and Oxbridge, everyone knows: high SAT, strong LoRs and social activity certificates. And after submitting these things, there are chances that the candidates may get rejected but they (the institutes) will at least tell the reasons for that. if there were to be a random selection why to ask for submitting the applications?
It could be the case that they are reserving more seats for Management Quota. (more money). I feel this to be a fraud because the basis of rejection was simply whimsical, there was altogether no eligibility to apply (except for MBA one should be having an UG degree).
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Please present your views.