Admission Update 2012

To see the updated preferred waitlist (Updated on May 25,2012), Please visit the link below :

Preferred Wait List : MMC : Open / General Category.

To see the updated preferred waitlist (Updated on May 25,2012), Please visit the links below :

Preferred Wait List : MBA : Open / General Category

Preferred Wait List : MMC : Open / General Category

To see the updated preferred waitlist (Updated on May 18,2012), Pl visit the links below :

Updated Preferred Wait List : MBA : Open / General Category

Updated Preferred Wait List : MBA : Reserved Category

Preferred Wait List : MMC : Open / General Category : No Change

Preferred_wait_list-MBA_Open_category_May_18.pdf

Preferred_waitlist-_MBA-Reserved_category_May_18.pdf

To see the updated preferred waitlist (updated on May 11,2012) pl visit the links below

Updated Preferred Waitlist - Open / General Category : MBA

 Reserved Category :MBA : No Change

Open / General Category : MMC : No Change

To see the updated preferred waitlist pl visit the links below

Updated Preferred Waitlist - Open / General Category : MBA

Updated Preferred Waitlist - Reserved Category :MBA

Updated Preferred Waitlist - Open / General Category : MMC

As mentioned in all our previous updates, our target has been to wrap up our admission process by April 30th 2012. We are happy to share with you that apart from future admission offers made against cancellations, we have now closed the admission process for Batch 2012-14, for both MBA and MMC streams.

We are publishing the preferred wait list MBA (Open Category), Preferred wait list MBA (Reserved category) and preferred wait list MMC (Open Category) so that candidates can understand for themselves where they stand and estimate their chance for gaining admissions at SIMC. Cancellations are difficult to predict and we cannot give any exact detail for those on our preferred wait list. But we would like to assure you that being on this list is a positive indication of our interest in you.

For those who have not been contacted by the admission office so far(below the cutoff : MBA: 50.14 and MMC: 42.50) we would like to mention that we may get in touch with you if and only after the preferred wait list has been exhausted. This may take some time and we are once again not in a position to quantify this time. We advise you to pl go for admissions in hand now.

In case seats do open up, we will contact individuals by rank on the merit list with an offer of admission and you may then consider whether to join SIMC or not at that point of time.

We thank you all for your support and patience. It was an intense last few months for all of us here at the admissions office but it was well worth the effort as we are proud to have a talented pool of students join us this year.

We believe that we have had the lowest acceptance rate among all comparable colleges and we do hope that the incoming 2012-14 will be a “second batch with a difference".

We would like to close this communication wishing all applicants the very best in their future career.

SIMC Admissions team 2012

Prof. Chandan Chatterjee,Director

Prof Prasanna Hulikavi, Dy Director

Mrs D Suryavanshi, In-charge, Admissions

Mrs Manik Bhide, Coordinator

As mentioned in our previous update, our target has been to wrap up our admission process by April 30th 2012. As of today, we are closing the current admission cycle for Batch 2012-14, anticipating that all those who have accepted our pre-offer will enroll.

Aspirants with Final scores (post GE/PI) in proximity of the pre-offer cut-offs (pl refer to table 1 below) can expect to hear from us by phone over the next two days (followed by mail) to confirm about their continuing interest in Joining SIMC Pune.

Based on the response received at our end by end of day 29.04.2012, we will be publishing the  preferred wait list (open category) and preferred wait list (Reserved Category) for MBA and also for MMC on April 30, 2012.

This will be published on our website so that candidates can figure out for themselves where they rank on the list and estimate their chance for gaining admissions at SIMC.  

Beginning the 1^st week of May we will start offering any seat that may become available, as per the sequence on the Preferred waiting list. Cancellations are difficult to predict and we cannot give any detail about when such openings may arise. But we would like to assure you all that being on this list is a positive indication of our interest in you. 

We thank each one of you for your support and patience.

SIMC Admissions team 2012:































































































































Prof. C Chatterjee, Director,































































































































Prof Prasanna Hulikavi, Dy. Director,































































































































Deepali Suryavanshi, In Charge, Admissions and Manik Bhide, Coordinator

Admission Update about our “pre-offer” for the last few seats at SIMC Pune:

A few seats in MBA and even fewer in MMC remain available, and we are releasing some admission pre-offers to the candidates who have made it to the new cut offs (MBA: Open/ General Category 51.14; SC :31.36 and MMC : Open /General Category : 44.50). Pl check your status in the results section of our website. If the status has changed to “Pre-offer”, you are a step closer to admission to SIMC Pune.

You will receive a mail from admissions@simc.edu providing further details by noon today. You will be required to confirm to us about taking up the admission in three days through an email. On receipt of your affirmation about joining SIMC Pune the admission result status will change to “Updated merit list”. The confirmation will be made on a first come first Serve basis.

The response time for candidates receiving the “pre-offer” is lesser as we are asking them to accept or decline our offer in three days, so that the free seats can be offered to “interested” candidates without further delay.

For those not accepting the Pre-offer and those who have sought cancellations so far, their status will be changed to “Offer withdrawn”.

In case of cancellations we will be contacting the next candidate on the waiting lists. We will be closing admissions by the 30th of April 2012, in any case.

The last leg of selection is critical in bringing the most interested candidates to our institute and we wish to leave no stone unturned in ensuring the same. As always, we would like the best available candidates to join SIMC Lavale.

You can contact us on our email : admissions@simc.edu or call us on 08888864620 / 02039116100/20.































































































































We wish you luck.

Regards,































































































































Admissions Team































































































































SIMC(PG),Pune

In order to release the Third Merit List on time, April 5, 2012, we had pro-actively collated all the payments received till April 4.

Simultaneously, we telephonically sought confirmations of unpaid candidates on whether they would like to make the payments or to check whether their payments were in transit. Reconfirmation was also sought from all those who had requested for an extension of couple of days to make the payment.

As we had collated the data on April 9, 2012, we realized that some additional admission offers can be released to match the current vacancies in MBA and MMC programme

Consequently, we had released few more seats yesterday, April 9, 2012 both for MMC and MBA as part of Third Merit list referred as Third Merit List-B. 

Regards,































































































































Admissions Team































































































































SIMC(PG),Pune

Thank you for your patience. The third merit list is out. This list contains a smaller number of candidates as most of the MBA and MMC seats have already been taken up. Again, like the last time, most of the candidates from Merit list 2 have been spoken with or emailed before withdrawing the offer of admission on behalf of SIMC.

The third merit list candidates will be able to check their updated status by 4pm today. Your upgraded status will now read: Selected- Third Merit List

All further contact with prospective candidates will be made on a rolling basis as and when a seat opens up. This will take place only after April 20th which is the last date for Merit List 3 candidates to pay their fees.

We have good news for MMC second waiting list as we have finally dipped into this pool of candidates. This is not the case for MBA second waiting list as we still have some candidates on the first waiting list remaining.

The new cutoff score (for Open/ General Category) in MBA is 51.79 and for SC category is 32.71; The new cutoff score (for Open/General Category) in MMC is 46.00.

As of now, for MBA Kashmiri Migrant category, our seats are full. In case of any cancellation, we may open these up for the next available candidate in the future, under the respective categories.

Like all other candidates who have received an offer of admission from SIMC, Pune the Merit list 3 candidates will receive the following documents at the address given by you for correspondence:

Offer letters on SIU letterhead for MBA and MMC Third Merit List candidates will be dispatched on 5th of April, along with the following annexure.Email copy will be sent to you today by end of the day.

Annexure 1. Bank Loan Letter on SIMC letterhead

Annexure 2. Mode of Payment of fees

Annexure 3 : Personal Details form

Please get in touch with us in case you do not receive the hard copy of our offer letter latest by 9^th April 2011 either by phone or via email at admissions@simc.edu

We thank you again for your interest in our programmes. We understand that students might be anxious to know when the next seat will become available but please know that we will contact you ourselves on a case by case basis and constant calling will not hasten your admission.

Regards

Admissions Team

SIMC(PG),Pune

We are happy to inform you that we have been allotted some additional hostel accommodations that permit us to release a few more seats.

Consequently, we have released some more seats today, March 27, 2012 both for MMC and MBA as part of Second Merit list referred as Second Merit List-B. Due to the fixed quota for reserved categories i.e SC, ST, DA & KM, we are unable to release extra offers under this category.

Availability in these categories will be known on April 4th, 2012.

Please refer the table below for the new cutoff scores for MBA & MMC.

Regards,































































































































Prof Chandan Chatterjee, Director































































































































Prof Prasanna Hulikavi, Dy. Director































































































































Deepali Suryavanshi, In-charge, Admissions































































































































Manik Bhide, Coordinator

Update on SIMC (PG) Pune Admissions: an overview for the applicants (and their parents):

At the outset we would like to thank all the applicants who applied to and made it through various stages of admissions to our MBA and MMC programmes, 2012-14 batch.

From Last year, Admission at SIMC Pune is more intense and competitive. This is due to a multitude of reasons:

1. The admission process itself underwent a sea change . The students called in for GE / PI went through

2. The number of seats for admission to AY 2012-14 (as stated in the prospectus) are 120 for MBA (all specialisations put together) and 60 for MMC (for both the specialisation areas)

3. Simultaneously we invited a larger number of candidates to evaluate them for specific suitability to our programmes. We wanted a greater diversity and also offer a chance to those who could demonstrate their creative potential and /or genuine interest in the Media and Communication industries. In our experience, only a detailed PI has the ability to evaluate these desired characteristics that SNAP results may not predict.

4. We also invited students from the MBA and MMC GE/PI wait list-2 (to offer a chance to deserving candidates with lower SNAP scores) during specially held GE / Pi sessions on March 1 and 2nd, 2012 at Pune. Quite a few from these groups also made it to the final Merit lists, validating our hypotheses.

5. Our GE / PI process started on 20th February and concluded by 5 pm on 2nd March 2012, with the last group of MMC applicants. The duly approved results are uploaded on our website on March 6, 2012, as per deadline in the SIMC prospectus.

6. The success rates this year is 22.42% for MBA candidates, making it to the Merit List and 20.83% to the MMC Merit list. We expect that the selected students will learn more from an industry validated curriculum, have a better ability to apply these learnings during their internships and industry projects. All of these factors enumerated above will lead to a stronger image for SIMC as an Academic institution as also for its faculty and students.

7. We understand that there are some clarifications required additionally, that will help interpret individual results correctly. For more details on your admission results and related facts, pl click on the appropriate category below, for an overall picture per status type:

Selected – First Merit List

First Wait List

Second Wait List

We appreciate all those who were interested in joining SIMC but due to intense competition we were unable to proceed further, during this year's admission process. Not making it to SIMC this year does not reflect on one's capability or potential and we are certain that you will have many opportunities for associating with SIMC Pune in the future.

Pl feel free to contact the following SIMC officials for any additional input(s)using admissions@simc.edu Best regards Admissions 2012-14 Team comprising of

Prof. C Chatterjee Director SIMC































































































































Prof Prasanna Hulikavi Dy Director & Chairperson Admissions































































































































Mrs. D Suryavanshi Admission In-charge































































































































Manik Bhide Coordinator

Selected – First Merit List: Those who received this response on their Admission Status posting have got through to SIMC, Pune. They will receive a letter from the institute outlining the academic and payment schedule. The last date for making the Payment for Term 1 fees for candidates on First Merit list is 20th March, 2012. Thereafter admissions will be opened to candidates on First Wait List, based on total score, considering the category.

In order to provide complete transparency regarding those who made it to the Merit list the applicable Cutoffs as per specialization is:

First Wait list : Those whose Admission Status posting read "First Wait List" have a higher probability of gaining admission to the institute once seats open up due to cancellation or other reasons. There is a good chance that those on this list will make it to the programme. Wait list decisions are made on a rolling basis i.e. the candidate will be contacted as soon as a seat falls vacant. More details will be provided through a written communication on 21st March 2012. The last date for payment of Term 1 fees for selected candidates (from First Waitlist) is 5th April, 2012. There after admissions will be opened to candidates on wait List 2, based on total score, considering the category.

Second Wait List: Those whose Admission Status posting read "Second Wait List" will have a longer waiting period before they get to know where they stand with respect to admission at SIMC. The admission to this group will depend on seats falling vacant after having been offered to the First Wait list candidates. Wait list decisions are made on a rolling basis i.e. the candidate will be contacted as soon as a seat falls vacant admissions will be opened to candidates on Second wait List , based on total score, considering the category. More details will be provided through a written communication on 6th April 2012. The last date for payment of Term 1 fees for selected candidates (from Waitlist 2) is 21st April, 2012.

This is further to our communication regarding GE-PI cutoffs. We are happy to announce that we have now decided to invite candidates in the waitlist-2 with snap scores between 25 and 29.99 to our GE-PI process scheduled on March 2, 2012.

All eligible candidates will also receive individual call letters on their email ids. We hope that with this step, we will be able to give fair opportunity to those aspirants who otherwise would have lost the opportunity due to their SNAP Score.

Wish you all the best and see you on campus.

Regards,































































































































Admissions Team































































































































SIMC(PG),Pune































































































































Email : admissions@simc.edu ; Cell : 08888864620

GE-PI Dates for Waitlist-2 Candidates : MBA & MMC Programme

GE-PI Status : MBA Waitlist-2 candidates

Dear Aspirants,

It gives us the great pleasure to inform you that the response to our GE/PI Process has been quite overwhelming. We believe, we have now built a strong pipeline for our 2012- 14 Batch.

However, we realize that there are many more aspirants who could not make it to the GE/PI Process due to their SNAP Score. We also realize that the SNAP Score does not reflect the scale of the key traits and skills of the aspirants, there are skills and traits which become apparent only during the GE/PI Process and to ensure that we also give opportunity to those aspirants who potentially have the traits that we look for but have not had the SNAP Score to have made it to the GE/PI Process in the first round. Accordingly, we will now be sending invitation letters of all candidates with SNAP Scores of 45 and above but below 50. The process will be conducted on March 1, 2012 for MBA.

All eligible candidates will also receive individual letters of intimation. We hope that with this step, we will be able to give fair opportunity to those aspirants who otherwise would have lost the opportunity due to their SNAP Score.

GE-PI Status : MMC Waitlist-2 candidates

GE-PI process for "Select" waitlist-2 MMC candidates is scheduled on March 2, 2012. The "selected" waitlist-2 candidates will receive a communication on February 28,2012 by end of the day indicating

Either that

They need to be present for the GE-PI process on March 2, 2012 Or Our inability to take your application forward.

While we are intimating you of the possible date to help you plan your trip. Kindly do not travel to Pune unless you receive our confirmation by email on February 28, 2012 after 5.00pm.

For further information please mail your queries to admissions@simc.edu or call on 020-39116100; 08888864620

Regarding GE-PI status of Waitlist-2 candidates

The Admission Cell had sent out an email, asking Short-list and Waitlist-1 candidates to confirm their participation for the GE-PI process by February 14, 2012. However about 40 per cent of candidates have not yet confirmed their participation. As we continue to receive confirmation mails, we will be able to give the status on GE-PI for waitlist -2 candidates only on February 25, 2012, when the GE-PI process for MBA will be completed.

Meanwhile, we request all MMC –Short-list and waitlist-1 candidates who are yet to confirm to do so by February 20, 2012.

An update on the GE grouping process:

To ensure that every aspirant gets a fair chance and opportunity to perform and demonstrate his skills in the Group Evaluation process, the groups are arrived at by using the following norms.

1. Candidates from Open and Reserved are grouped together during each Morning and afternoon session.

2. It is ensured that the distribution of snap scores has a range reprersentative of the scores of Short-listed and Wait List 1 candidates.

3. Both short listed and waitlist-1 candidates are merged together.

Thus a GE group of 8 people could have representation from open categories, reserved categories, short listed candidates, waitlist-1 candidates and will have candidates with high, median as well as low snap scores.

SIMC Pune Overall Cut-off summary for GE / PI based on SNAP scores

Note: This information is being shared as per a request on FB - SIMC Pune Aspirant 2012-14 page, in order to improve /enhance transparency. Kindly treat this information with the respect it deserves. This is information intended only for the aspirants and may not be posted or communicated outside the aspirant group.

Note: For MMC aspirants the cut-offs are identical irrespective of whether one has taken the SNAP general or SNAP MMC.

NA* stands for no applicants in this category at this stage (WL 2)

Kind Attention : Candidates Short-listed for GE-PI

Further to our communication to you regarding GE-PI process. You are requested to send your confirmation as this will help us in fixing up our administrative arrangements like organizing transportation and making of individual ID cards ensuring a smooth entry and movement in to our Lavale campus.  

Please inform us at the earliest at gepiconfirmation@simc.edu  by 14th Feb,2012 with subject as your SNAP ID.

Regards,































































































































Admissions Team































































































































SIMC(PG),Pune

Status on Requests for Rescheduling of Interview Dates

Response to queries / requests received till 6th February 2012, regarding change in interview dates is sent to the respective email ids.

Status on Requests for Change in Programme

Requests regarding change in programme are sent to Symbiosis International University (SIU) for approval. The concerned applicants will be intimated once we receive SIU approval.

Regarding Change in Reporting Time on 21st February,2012

Attention : Candidates whose Group ids starting from 2XA* to 2XO* on 21st February,2012

This is an important update about your GE/PI scheduled on 21st February 2012 at SIMC,Pune.

It was earlier indicated to you that you need to report to the S B Road campus at 12.00 pm for the registration process. Please note that there is a change in this.

You are now required to report at 08.00 AM on 21st February 2012 at S B Road campus to avail free transport facility from Symbiosis, S B Road Campus to Lavale Campus.

If you are coming to Lavale campus by your own vehicle, your reporting time at Lavale campus is 9AM.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience due to this change.

We look forward to meet with you at the GE/PI, on Feb 21st, 2012 at SIMC, Lavale,Pune.

All the queries in this regard will be handled only on admissions@simc.edu. Pl do not post your queries in this regard on social media sites like Facebook.

With best regards,

Admissions Team-SIMC

Accessing GE-PI Letters:

Several applicants have shared concerns regarding non-receipt of GE-PI call letters on their email ids. In order to resolve the issue, we have also linked the GE-PI call letters under “GE-PI Short-list” tab on www.simc.edu. You can view your letters by providing your snap id and password, as an additional measure.

Regarding non-receipt of emails

We have received a lot of mails regarding non-receipt of mails from our official email id admissions@simc.edu.

To receive all further official communication and mails, you are urged to add admissions@simc.edu in your address book. Once you do this, official mails sent from this id will not be treated as Spam or Junk by your email server.

Regarding Payment of Registration Fees

Registered but unpaid candidates who are short-listed for GE-PI are requested to pay the registration fees of Rs.1000. The payment will be accepted in the form of DD only. You can bring the DD along with you when you come for the GE-PI process.

Draft needs to be made in favour of Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, payable at Pune.

GE-PI call letters are sent to primary and alternate email ids to all the candidates with the status GE-Shortlist or GE-Waitlist-1. All the mails received till yesterday, 31st January, 2012, concerning change of interview dates have been answered to the respective email ids.

Change of Interview Dates and/ or Programme

Queries / requests regarding change of interview dates will be handled on case to case basis. Request you to write to admissions@simc.edu with reasons for change in dates and / or Programme.

Queries / requests regarding change of interview dates will be handled on case to case basis. Request you to write to admissions@simc.edu with reasons for change in dates and / or Programme.