An alumnus came to meet us a couple of days back. He has a PhD from Johns Hopkins and is post-doc-ing at Berkeley. Another alumnus from the same batch, was a post doc at Harvard and has now moved on, another classmate has started his own company. There were another few in that batch who have PhD s from our local university and are now teaching at teh university.
Another alumna called me to ask if any of our students would like to work for her on her DBT projects. These are all students who passed out more than 10 years ago.
So how do some batches do well while in other batches, they all end up either as salesmen or call centre employees, feeling proud to have got a job that pays well.
One thing is the change in times...nowadays we get fewer students who have interest in learning anything. They have gone through more years of the "corporate" schooling where "IIT coaching" starts in the 7th class where previously it started in the 11th class.
I see more and more evidence of the harm these "corporate" schools do to whole generations of children.