10. IIM reveals admission criteria: Despite an impressive percentile Vaishnavi Kasturi, a visually-impaired student, in 2007 was denied a seat in the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, one of the country's premier management institutes.
She then filed an RTI application to request the institution to disclose the admission process.
Though Vaishnavi did not get admission in any of the IIMs, her doubts over admission procedure were clarified.
In a response to the query, the Chairman said “CAT scores are just one-fifth of the criteria for admissions.
Forty per cent weight age is given for class X, XII and bachelor's scores.
Work experience is given weight age too but it's mostly performance in the group discussion and interview that counts which is up to 35 per cent, plus 5 per cent weight age is there if you have done a chartered accountancy course.”
