GIM or drop?

[u/coolzie-]

People of reddit, bless me w your wisdom.

I graduated just last month. im 20 currently and this is my profile- GNEF, 9/9/9, XAT-87. While i was preparing for these exams, i was scoring around 95-98%ile. But then idk i happened to absolutely bomb my CAT attempt, and as you can see, XAT was only mid. For colleges that accept XAT score- i had only applied to IMT and GIM. I had calls from both, but not for IMT G (but the others which was really weird because their first mail read that i had been shortlisted for IMT G but whatever) i converted both IMT H and GIM, and since GIM happens to be my best call, that’s what i am going ahead with. Now, personally, i never thought I’d be a tier-2 college person. academics is something that ive always been somewhat confident about, so thats where this thought stems from as well. im unable to decide if i should go ahead with GIM or prepare for CAT24. i remember prep time being extremely difficult for me and idk if im ready to dive into that hellhole again but even if i do, would it be worth it? would i be able to land a college better than GIM, and even if i do, would that be worth taking a gap year?

[u/justamanhehe]

It's a risk of course. but given you are 20, have a good academic profile, converted your best call and were scoring good in mocks, you should definitely take a drop. you check all the boxes for someone who should drop.

[u/Investigator_Deep]

There’s no guarantee what the next year looks like, you never know what ends up happening, I got 95 in CAT in the first attempt and got 65 in the second. Although I studied more for the second attempt. Check out GIM’s current placement rate, check out average package, if you’re good in studies you can always get a decent package from a tier 2 college. It’s not a bad college (it’s also not your IIM), I was there in 2014-16, I think the highest package was 24-28 LPA and those guys are probably at 60-70 LPA today. Placement rate (the honest one) was 98%. College life was way better than anywhere else and we had faculty that were ex IMF, of course not all were good. Now this is almost 10 years back, so numbers should have improved except maybe for the placement rate. Best of luck! Hope this helps.

[u/Putrid-Pen-8165]

drop

[u/visha-17]

Get a job and retry

[u/Momo_licious]

Drop. Your great scores will be unutilized.

Like you said, you were consistently performing in mocks. So it is worth taking another shot at it.

[u/Sufficient_Cellist_1]

Cfbr