WIMEI?No Please!

The IIMC final call list for the batch of 2012 came out more than 20 days ago.And like a week back,the other IIMs have also started bringing out their call lists which gives out names of those people who the college has looked at as prospective students(Prospective because some students do not actually join the IIMs who select them).

For the record there are 357 common CAB calls this time around.There are 280 BLACK calls and 213 BLACKI calls(I seems to have changed its criteria bigtime).And only 69 fortunate(???) people have managed BLACKIS.BLACKI used to be such a nice word.Now with S,R,T,another R being added as initials of the new IIMs being formed,a new word will have to be formed which denotes people who have managed calls from each and every IIM!

Anyway I have been regular on PagalGuy over the last few months again to try and show people that rankings are no way to select a college when it comes to choosing between two class places like IIMA and IIMC.Rankings stop mattering when it comes to choosing between these 2 places and one should try and look at the best 'fit' as people call it.Every IIM or any college for that matter that has existed for sometime has its own unique culture.

When you are looking at selecting a college without looking at the rankings,its the culture which will have to be the deciding factor.I mean come on seriously,would one look at rankings when selecting between lets say a Wharton and a Harvard?

But unfortunately I have been noticing this trend among prospective students there to brand us WIMEI.IIMA has always been called WIMWI which translates to Well known Institute of Management in Western India.So if you try and translate it for us it will become Well known Institute of Management in Eastern India aka WIMEI.

Even the newspapers have not been too kind to us and have sometimes quoted us as IIM Kolkata instead of IIM Calcutta.Change our name because the city got a change of name?If that were to be the case the full form of IITM would not have been IIT Madras but IIT Mumbai,and IIT Madras would have become IITC.

Anyway my point is that an institute as old as IIMC(Will be our 50th foundation day next year) has a culture which should not be tampered.We have always been IIMC and will remain IIMC.Please dont start calling us IIMK.

And to that end please dont start calling us WIMEI.IIMA has always been WIMWI and we dont want a name which bears so much resemblance to an already well established name.I understand juniors being interested in their college but if you have to please denote your institute by the name 'Joka'.Believe me no word brings about such sense of proud in any IIMCian as this one does!