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He had his entire schooling in rural Pathanamthitta, at Catholicate High School and at the Vechoochira Navodaya Vidyalaya. Yet that did not prevent Philip Jacob from entering the foremost Business School in Asia, IIM, Ahmedabad with a 100th percentile score in CAT 2002. And now he has been ranked first in the MBA course and has accepted placement as senior analyst in a leding investment bank headquartered in New York.
Son of Jacob P.Philip of Thevarukattil, priest and retired higher secondary school principal, and P.Y.Kunjamma, History professor at the Pathanamthitta Catholicate College, Philip is of the opinion that students from villages lack the exposure that their city counterparts get. Also, the students from big cities are aware of opportunities and have role models to emulate.
However, he feels that the grooming provided at the Navodaya Vidyalaya had helped him a lot in overall development as well as in higher education.
A software engineer, he shifted to Bangalore after B.Tech. It was the exposure he got at Bangalore that propelled him to the peak in CAT. He received a number of scholarships for his exemplary student performance at IIM, besides winning the Award of Excellence at the International B-School Festival, Confluence-2004 attended by over 300 teams from over 17 foreign and 20 Indian universities.
Philip has also been awarded membership of the Mensa International, an organization for those with IQ score of 148.
“I would like to come back to India after some time and start an enterprise of my own. However, the present conditions are not as conducive for business as in a developed country. Moreover, the experience in an international setting will be much valuable when I start a venture of my own,” says he.
Courtesy: Radhakrishnan Kuttoor, The Hindu, April 19, 2005
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