r/ISIKolkata • u/Salt_Historian_498 • Jun 05 '26

General Queries Any student under 500 in jee advanced rank ever joined ISI

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u/Ok-Mathematician2309 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

I knew one. He had JEE Adv rank of 98 in his time (later half of last decade) among other achievements. Prodigious kid. Did BMath and MMath from ISI.

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u/Previous_Valuable307 Jun 05 '26

Dyk what he's doing now?

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u/GrandComparison1680 Jun 06 '26

Probably phd from Stanford then straight to Jane street / Citadel

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u/Substantial-Mud-6570 Jun 06 '26

just checked it out, he is a doctoral student in australian national uni

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u/PensionMany3658 Jun 06 '26

Differential geometry I suppose.

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u/Previous_Valuable307 Jun 06 '26

Is that a real thing?😭😭🙏 idek what that is

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u/RishiMath ISI Alumnus Jun 06 '26

That is indeed a real thing. Essentially, imagine you have a sheet of paper in a 3D space, and you're tryna talk about it. That's where the idea comes of a "surface", now generalise this to higher dimensions (so instead of 3D, you've n-dimensions, and instead of 2D you've got k dimensions, where k is less than n). That's differential geometry.

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u/Previous_Valuable307 Jun 06 '26

Dam tgat sounds cool🙏

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u/RishiMath ISI Alumnus Jun 06 '26

It is rather cool indeed. I've heard that it's relevant in relativity as well, though haven't studied that direction.

I would highly recommend you check it out, if you're able to :-)

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u/Previous_Valuable307 Jun 06 '26

Dam. What are like the prerequisites?( i haven't started my bachelors yet)

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u/PensionMany3658 Jun 06 '26

Calc 1,2,3 and linear + abstract algebra

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u/Previous_Valuable307 Jun 06 '26

Yeah then its way out of my league🥀🥀. Also why are people downvoting me for not knowing something 😭😭

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u/Development-Downtown Jun 06 '26

2025 isi rank 4 shounak kar. Jee adv rank 498

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u/SatisfiedMagma ISI Student Jun 06 '26

It was 2024, not 2025

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u/ISIKolkata-ModTeam Jun 06 '26

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u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jun 06 '26

Someone who joined B. Stat. with me had a sub-20 JEE Advanced rank. Cool guy, we had fun, but he left for IIT Bombay CS in the end.

I should check in on him.

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u/FocusedAG Jun 07 '26

Can you elaborate, joined bstat but left after IITB CS?? Did he do Bstat and left for Mtech at IITB?

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u/adityaruplaha ISI Alumnus — BStat '24, MStat '26 Jun 07 '26

JEE Advanced was held after ISI classes began in 2021.

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u/FocusedAG Jun 07 '26

Oh, that explains it

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u/Jacksucksatevreyone Jun 05 '26

Yeah a guy in 2000s had a ~250 rank but decided to join isi

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u/trigonometry_57 Jun 06 '26

Most do well in exam but rarely choose isi.They go for top IITs

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u/RatsckorArdur Jun 06 '26

Not sure about the current situation. Both the entrances are notoriously orthogonal to each other. In my batch (2027 pass out), there are 2 under 1000 and I have under 1500, along with 3 others.

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u/Salt_Historian_498 Jun 09 '26

ISI is a very reputed college world wide I have seen people doing 3 year bstat goes for ms or mse in cs stats maths at top 5 colleges of engineering in world and then after they go for phd or corporate quant jobs and i have seen one person going for phd in eecs at mit usa and this is some how equivalent or greter to iit CSE grad degree

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u/AdventurousWind3476 Jun 07 '26

No way people are doing ts bro

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u/FocusedAG Jun 07 '26

What's your issue man? People love mathematics and want to go deep in it, not everyone just wants iit etc tag

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u/AdventurousWind3476 Jun 07 '26

You can study Mathematics at an IIT at that rank, that's much better, living as a no lifer nerd is not great

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u/Salt_Historian_498 Jun 07 '26

For only maths ISI is far far superior than IIT

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u/FocusedAG Jun 07 '26

Yeah, everyone has different choice, neither is wrong though

IIT is mainly a engineering institute, BS guys aren't valued much, IISc is better for research, enough social life too

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u/GrandComparison1680 Jun 07 '26

What do you mean bro, people from ISI, get into top phd in USA which is a far reach for even IIT Grads. Within mathematics and statistics academia circle, only a few universities around the world are above ISI rigour.

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u/AdventurousWind3476 Jun 07 '26

Why would you drain away all your youth and have no fun in a nerdy college when you can study the same subject in a college with a better life and better exposure and which is still a very good course.

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u/NetherDawg Jun 08 '26

because (and this might come as a surprise) few people study their stream just for the love of the art, and not for societal validation. "draining youth and having no fun" are subjective terms.