With the burgeoning Indian economy, leading to a rise in disposable incomes and associated aspirations, and with technology democratizing learning and make it a more level playing field, ambitions for parents and children are soaring like never before. Every second child today aspires for a top notch education and parents will leave no stone unturned to ensure this dream fructifies into a reality. Success stories of Indians becoming global business leaders and first generation entrepreneurs starting innovative enterprises by the day, we feel wonderful to be able to play a role, howsoever small, in laying the foundation stones to these dreams.
As much as our hearts swell with pride and joy to see some of our students receive stellar admits, and some older ones go on to create companies or rise up the corporate ladders with rapid pace, in the same breath we often find ourselves telling parent after parent that they should have started work earlier. The gap between action and dreaming is often too long, and by the time a student starts working on his profile, it often is too late. While miracles happy more frequently than we anticipate, it always helps to plan in advance and then stick to that plan.
This blog post is a compilation of questions that we find ourselves answering on a daily basis. Staying true to our commitment to open source information for a level playing field, here’s a lowdown (read: MUST READ FOR ALL PARENTS AND STUDENTS) on how to plan for a successful college admit, thereby embarking on the path for a successful career ahead.
Irrespective of where your child wants to study, compromising on academics at the cost of anything is probably the worst possible mistake to make. The importance of academic consistency cannot be underscored enough. Colleges abroad, especially in the US and Canada, love to see an upward graph of scores from Class IX to Class XII. All school marks across all terms for these four years will be evaluated.
Aside to students, the tragic mistake made by most of you is in the ‘CHILL’ in Class XI. Nothing can be more career defeating than reducing the intensity in Class XI and letting your grades slip.
Choosing your stream of study based on “career scope” is probably the worse decision you can take. While the choice of stream is taken when you are 15 or 16 years of age, your real careers will commence only when you are 28. With technology progressing at rates hitherto unknown, it is impossible to predict what jobs will be in vogue after a decade. Nobody anticipated e-commerce to become such a large player today. Nobody knows what the next big thing will be – that’s how disruptive technology works.
The most successful students have been those who have followed their passions. No this isn’t clichéd! Select a stream of study that you enjoy the most because that will make your chances of excelling at it highest. At the end of the day, you need to be excellent at whatever you do. If you like what you do, chances are you will be good at it.
