Someone just dropped this in our Telegram group and everyone's losing it. Apparently a guy who got rank 1,328 in JEE Advanced actually left IIT Bombay to join a brand‑new private institute in Bangalore called Polaris School of Technology.
Why would anyone do that? Tell me this is fake PR or a massive VC marketing stunt.
I know the IIT tag isn't everything anymore, but quitting it for a college that just started sounds like a financial disaster. Anyone from Bangalore know what's going on there?
It's a PR stunt, but those Polaris bots will surely show up.
If it was a general branch issue, that could be possible, but even then he'd likely get some NIT or bits.
The thing about that institute is big companies come for placements because it's industry‑oriented. And if he/she has completed at least one year, they can get a certificate from IIT Bombay, which alone will get them shortlisted by Polaris School. They likely got a heavy fee waiver, or maybe he wanted CSE. Honestly, he could have tried again this year for top NITs.
I know the IIT tag isn't everything anymore.
You don't know, little bro. It matters more than you think in the long run.
Brand value matters.
I realized the same after joining IIT‑K.
This is a paid PR stunt; many private institutions do this all the time. There's a reason IIT Bombay doesn't need ads to promote itself, while Polaris School of Technology, Scaler, Newton School of Technology, Master's Union, etc., are all on the same page doing the same thing.
Polaris is literally the tier‑69 college people claim they're from.
Yeah, pretty sure it's lies, unless there's some dire family situation, and even that seems extremely improbable.
No sane person would drop an IIT for an objectively inferior technical course, and this isn't like moving from IIT to IIIT/ICT/IISc/ISI. Sure, people switch to study something else outright, but not a technical course.
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It was founded by Mukul Rustagi, the guy who built Classplus. He probably pitched the kid through his network. The ecosystem and networking there will be completely different from studying legacy thermodynamics in a regular classroom.
Hard to believe someone would drop IIT‑B for a brand‑new college. Unless he got a branch he absolutely hated and really wanted CSE. Still, I'd need to see his LinkedIn profile before believing it fully.