u/Aviator69420

Some context - IIM BLACKI student. Currently about to finish my SIP where I have been reasonably assured of a PPO

About to start second year. Have heard from many many seniors that post PPO, no need to give a shit about grades.

I already have a pretty good CGPA from first year, just shy of 90%, and comfortably in the top 10% of the batch. My main motivation to study in first year was to secure a good seat in the exchange program, which I’ve also gotten now.

I have no aspirations to be in DML or a Gold Medallist

So....will these grades actually matter now? Any use anywhere post MBA?

I’m also planning to give CFA Level 2, so I’d honestly love to stop caring so much about grades if I can.

I have been a pretty studious guy for as long as I can remember so im having some difficulty in wrapping my head around this concept that I can choose not to perform and there will be no consequences

IPM is not the issue. Strictly going only on verified numbers, they score better in internal exams and crack comparable, if not better, placements. IPM has never been the issue

IPMers have some of the best profiles in the batch. In the latest SIP cycle, they had people placed in Goldman, Godrej, AbinBev, BCG, JPMC, Airtel, Tata etc. and pretty much every big brand that comes on campus.

In fact 9 out of 16 taken by JPMC were IPMers. 4 out of 5 taken by Godrej are IPMers. 2 out 3 taken by Nomura are IPMers.

Highest final placement of campus last year, also an IPMer.

Our Student body head is an IPMer (twice in a row) and so was the most recent Placecom Secy. Almost half of the people in DML were IPMers last year despite being just 15% of the batch strength.

The issue at IIMI is structural. It comes from a mix of abuse of power at various levels.

The biggest ofcourse is the continuous bullshit that Placecomm pulls. Several companies have blacklisted the college (Morgan Stanley, Indigoedge, McKinsey and Kearney just to name a few) solely due to the blatantly stupid actions of Pcomm. (What exactly they do has been talked about enough. Y'all can find plenty of posts on this subreddit itself)

This is of course, enabled by a Placement Chair (who just got reappointed) who despite knowing everything chooses not to get involved and a Director who believes that placements are not the major responsibility of the college and instead chooses to use the position as a political launchpad.

The solution is painfully obvious. It just needs some oversight and intervention by some authority who would choose to give a shit about the students they take so much money from.

Oh and the cherry on top is that they seem to be going the way of IMT Ghaziabad. They are aggressively planning to increase batch size (building new hostels, new acadblocks etc.) with no comparable shoring up of placements.

IPM students get the blame but they are really not the problem and they never have been.