Sorry to be all negative about this. I am guessing this would be another IIT/IIM circle jerk. Everyone else will be filtered out. I will change my mindset when I see the proof. Till then, cynical.
No doubt, they are top brains of India. PERIOD
Focussing on IITians at any age is like leaving stale comments scattered in a codebase and being misled by them.
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The less obvious rebuttal: Getting into the IITs marks one as smart, but not making it doesn't necessarily mark one as inferior.
In my experience those who rank 1-50 are in a stratospheric league of their own. But choosing between ranks 1500+ and the best of other indian colleges (who often didn't pass the IIT tests) is a crap shoot. There's just too many deserving students for the IITs to accomodate.
(Full disclosure: I prepared for the IITs for two years, didn't make it. It was a long time ago, but perhaps I still bear the scars.)
Man, I seriously recommend you to come out of this grudge and look at this recent report: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3752658,...
I am utterly sorry for you my friend. After witnessing your witty and intelligent remarks, I feel you must have been admitted to IIT. You are amazing.
All in good faith :)
PS: I din't say students from other universities are all fools. But sad, your comment has made me to feel so.
Hmmm, I guess they dont teach English at the IITs ??
And akkartik is right, if the IITian's rank wasnt 800 or higher then they really arent much different from students from other good engineering schools.
And to my knowledge this is how most Indians rate guys from IITs.
Your statement shows your ignorance about IITs and students. Please note, I din't say all IITians are "GOD", and can do any damn thing. Still, most(yeah even with rank > 4000) are better than top students from rest engineering colleges.
PS: I satisfy your rank < 800 requirement, and I am not bragging about that :P
As an aside, I know of no other school(s) in the world, a majority of whose students choose to append their school names with their email addresses and nicknames on websites. NickIIT* or NickIIM* is legion. One of the reasons people describe it with phrases like "circle jerk".
That kind of dogged persistence helps when doing a startup.
The IIT-ian you need to watch out for is the one that keeps reminding you that he's from IIT. This kind of guy has usually not done anything else with his life.
Sridhar Vembu of Zoho went to IIT-Madras. He aint doing too bad!
So IIT helps but you certainly dont have to be an IIT-ian to succeed. Some day I hope to prove that :P ...
The only negative "opinion" that I have about IIT-ians (from the ones that I have met) is that they are very good at solving clearly defined problems but they have a hard time defining the problem itself. Ie they have a hard time figuring what the problem is in the first place. If you can give them the problem, clearly defined, they will solve it for you.
(Again this could just be my prejudice :) ...
I love the IITs. Of the 5 enlightened professors I met in India, 3 were at an IIT. I had some of my best times at events at IITs. But using those as a filter is stupid and as you point out, in the case of those who brag about having gone to an IIT, its invariably counterproductive in my experience.
Seriously if theres one credential which you ever do respect its IIT (pre-2000) graduated. At one point of time they were either very very bright or very very hardworking. Of course this might have changed in the years after graduating from IIT.
(Note: After 2000, they rebranded a lot of the state level colleges to "IIT" status.)
Discloser: I have been to Gatech.
http://blogs.adventnet.com/svembu/2005/11/03/college-educati...
marks != merit