Admission Update on 17 March 2011

We would like to thank the large percentage of candidates from our First Merit List who have accepted our offer of Admission. As many students have accepted the offer the competition in the second Merit list continues to remain steep. 

The last date of payment for First Merit list was 15^th March 2011. We attempted to personally contact and / or speak with almost every candidate on the 1^st Merit List before confirming or withdrawing the offer to join SIMC, Pune.

As per our earlier website admission notice, we announced the Second Merit List on the 16^th of March 2011.  The new cut off score (for open/ general category) in MBA (Communication Management) is 60.42 and that for MMC is 50.44.

We have sent offer letters to candidates on Wait list 1 (upgraded to Selected – Merit List 2) on the basis of seats that have opened up. Vacant Seats under reserved category, where there are no more applicants have now been included in the Open / general category seats, leading to some more seats in this category.

A great deal of effort went in to collate the payment information, confirmation for cases of non-payment and preparation of majority of offer letters on 15^th March. Some of you received the hard copy of the offers on 16^th itself. The package contains the following:

Second Merit List candidates must pay their fees by 31^st March 2011, else their offer for admission will stand cancelled, and the seat will be opened to candidates on the Waiting Lists as per ranking.

As and when seats become available, (and they will on March 31^st and April 15^th in chunks, in a slower trickle thereafter) we will inform the candidates on Wait List 1 and some of the high rankers in Wait List 2. Candidates will find their status change from ‘Wait list 1’ to ‘Selected - Merit List 3’. 

In our experience, there will be cancellations right through to July 2011, as candidates get offers from institutes of higher preference. When a cancellation happens, we will use this space to update on a weekly basis, after April 15^th.

We would like to mention that we have disclosed aggregate information instead of complete lists adopting a “need to know” principle, rather than an open information regime. Both have its own merit. However, like most premier schools, we use IT to provide specific information to individual candidates, through our website.  Our Admission Process gets audited by an independent group, to ensure its integrity. And, we attempt to provide  information in a more timely manner with higher frequency, and will continue to do so in the future.

We would once again like to thank all the candidates still awaiting an offer from SIMC Pune and we do hope that at least some more of you will be able to join, as seats open up on 31^st March and then on April 15^th, 2011 and if any, thereafter.