It matters a lot how much have you studied and what kind of prep you had before getting this rank. I am telling you a live story of a girl whose mother my mother met. She had qualified in IIT EML last year. She took a full drop I guess. Gave IIT this time again. Calculated her marks according to Brilliant. She was getting around 240. She was sure she would get it. She got NOT QUALIFIED in IIT. After a full drop.

So if you haven't studied much or your prep is not that good then you may be able to improve on that rank, otherwise you may end up even loosing it. I would say go for BITS, it is very good. Study for both college and JEE, if you get it, then consider IIT else it hardly matters.

First session had no real meaning. Just look at goa campus, how well it is doing.

IIIT Hyd CS..placements...faculty...being in IT hub of India...talk of any damn thing...and please stop talking baseless without facts. Talk facts else dont misguide him. Bring the faculty f both colleges, placements, research..city environment..

Edit: I am too tired of this. IIIT Hyd CS is best thats why its 100 so seats close within 1450 rank in aieee which has all IIT giving people competiting too. And IIIT Hyd CS is much harder to get than bits goa cs too. I am realyl tired arguing uselessly here. I am out. for the final time.

BITS is very good and in any ranking above IIIT. Besides any body prefers Pilani to IIIT any day. No comparisons.

Even Goa is coming up really fast. Expect it to stand with Pilani in the next 4 years. Faculty wise I doubt BITS is a problem and infra should be superb.

IIIT H had an avg placement of just 5.5lacs and max 9.5 lacs wihhci is little for a pure IT institute which seems to be the best option.

thanks all for ur replies.... well by atmosphere i mean drugs alcohol and



those kind of things.... my mother says she has heard many bad stories abt  



bits...... so thats y .... and @ akshaytalwar2 this is a LOONG post but plz



see and assess my situation... basically i didnt do a full prep at all.... i



wasted all my time in 11th in extracurricular activities... and only in the



12th summer hols i got  the "josh"  becoz my mother pushed me..... then i



learnt nicely throughout the hols and once school started i again stopped and



picked up only in september-october...but by then all mock tests had started



and i didnt have any practise...i didnt know  half of physics and mathematics  



and almost nothing in chem...so i wrote my first mock test and got 77



percentile...i was shattered.... i realised that for iit jee just having



brains is not enough (im not trying to boast i am giving my honest opinion)





so then once  again i came back with a vengeance and i dunno what happened but



i was sitting daily till 3 o clock in the midnight till my eyes were red doing



ml khanna problems and i was finishing around 150 -200 problems per day.... i



finished whole of complex numbers in ml khanna and  upto that point i was



under estimating practise.... but due to this hard work i ended up suddenly



jumping to 94 percentile in my next mock test and i got 71/81 in one maths



paper (actually i cud have got full but the paper also consisted of coordinate



geometry and i had 0 confidence in that) then  after that i started preparing



somewhat seriously and started little of physics but then my stupid school



exams came and i lost the flow again... then december onwards i started again



and upto that point my status was this... maths 40% properly done hardly any



practise (thousands of problems left in ml khanna and my institute material)



... physics mechanics dunce and rest ok very little practise (hadnt done any



problems from hc verma only handful) and my concepts were very weak in



electricity and magnetism and all the later topics... i hadnt even touched



those topics in hc verma till then....





then i thought no i cant be like this and i have got to work hard ...so i



picked up hc verma and in 2 days i went through EVERY CONCEPT in both the  



volumes just by reading and no problems done .. (i am pretty quick in grasping



concepts).....but even then i had got only knowledge and not much confidence



to solve problems.. then i solved just TWO  problems in mechanics and i



understood the whole of mechanics...i dunno how but i understood everything



clearly ... rotational mechanics pulleys springs u name it.... then from that



day i got real happiness and interest and i started solving many problems....



then i took one class test in mechanics which i had taken one year earlier and



this time i got 90/90 in which i had got only 34/90 last time  !!!!!! full



marks! then i got lot of confidence and started taking part in many mechanics



related discussions in goiit ..( u can see my posts) but by now it was january



feb and my board exams were nearing ...so i thought ok lets learn other topics



and started doing few problems in maths and phy ..but still i didnt know the



BASICS  of chem ....



so like this it went on and no matter how hard i tried  i never got more than



92 percentile in any test and this was frustrating. most of the time it was



becoz i hadnt known the particular formula for a question... so now my



confidence was dropping and i took a dip in my percentiles ...they went to 87



and seeing myself in the 80s was devastating ..i thought maybe thats it im



gone... and in between i got the postal tests of brilliants but i didnt have



time to do them...and then suddenly my board exams cropped up and i stopped



iit prep... unfortunately im in TN state board which i think is one of the



worst education systems in the world... .  all one has to do is mug and vomit



info on the paper...and the syllabus especially in chem is nothing like cbse



so it doesnt help for iit prep at all  luckily i am super fast in memorising



and within 20 days i mugged up all the required info in all subjects and ended



up getting an ok 94% in my boards....



now after the board exam my situation was like this .... physics mechanics and



related classical physics concepts 95-100 % confident ...rest of the topics



VERY  less prep and practise.... maths quite ok but almost no practise



(compared to some guys who had finished ml khanna and were working day and



night from 11th)



and chemistry just 30% done... i had no idea of even the basic concepts i



think...(by basic i mean i knew all the basic concepts for the school level



syllabus but not for iit level) .... then i started doing the brilliant mock



tests one every day but they were too easy and i used to get 350+/486 in most



tests ....then in the last one week i started SPEED mugging up the WHOLE DAMN



portions in chem from pradeep's publications.... its a damn thick book ....and



in the mean time i was doing some problems here and there from my material in



all topics   then 1 day before jee my situation was  physics 80% done maths



60% done not thoroughly and chemistry 50 percent not at all thorough as all



the info was stored in my short term memory... then the day before jee i



mugged up all the formulae in the 3 subjects and went through environmental



chemistry in the last minute till midnight...





then d day arrived... i was HIGHLY tensed and lacking confidence as i was



aspirirng to be a top ranker but didnt do the prep for it and in my recent



test i got a HORRIBLE percentile of 82 ....  and i was taking bmat tests...



then when the iit paper arrived and i opened it it looked EXACTLY like the



bmat papers and that was the final blow....on seeing the first question my



mind started spinning and unfortunately maths was tough so there was no



respite...so for 50 WHOLE minutes i cud not answer at all i only finished some



10-problems in mathematics then i saw physics and became calm and then chem



was a nightmare... then paper 2 was a similar disaster and here the worst part



is...i lost 15 marks in a physics comprehension in my FAVOURITE topic



rotational mech and it was due to a single plus sign instead of minus (u cant



understand how tensed i was)  so like this i lost around 50 marks overall in



iit jee due to extreme tension... and after coming out i thought im done for i



wont get iit....i was getting around 230-240 marks and i thought i wont even



get in eml.. but then i saw the pedictions and was happy that i could get at



least  3000 rank ... but as usual predictions went wrong and i got 3819..... i



was feelng miserable ..if i had been at my best performance i cud have scored



50 marks more and surely i could have got in top 2000 if not top 1500...





anyway after the iit jee i was devstatd and i thought what the hell man u can



face any exam in the world u are the best... and somehow lost all my tension



and fear... now this is not a joke but for all the upcoming exams like aieee



bitsat and viteee i didnt TOUCH my books literally... i didnt even go through  



one formula and thought ah let the world go to hell i havent done well in iit



jee so why shud these exams matter..... so i just went and wrote SO calmly u



can say it was the EXACT opposite of my feeling during jee.... and then when i



came out of the exam hall i KNEW i had done well... it was just a feeling



which i didnt have during jee somehow.... and then  i started enjoying life



watching movies playing music drawing etc and didnt touch my books for a month



and wrote bitsat for the heck of it and got 347 ....  (i didnt attempt the



extras else surely 370+)   and meantime i wrote viteee too and got 353



air...... so after all this i again got confidence and realised im among the



best... but i still cudnt get over the tragedy of iit jee i had prepared



overall only for 6-8 months for iit jee... hardly adequate.... so im sure



after all this u can be certain that with proper preparation and HARD WORK ( i



think a word i found too late in my dictionary) i can easily get in the top



500 or even top 200 of iit jee.... i have the confidence....

thanks savil.gupta but i think that wud be dangerous... if by bad luck i dont get a good rank in iit jee 09 then i will be stuck with a low profile college..

From what I infer, you seem to be capable. All you need is dedication and right direction(in terms of books, material etc). If you take a full drop you are sure to make it to top 1000 if not top 100-200. However there is another way too.

Join BITS Pilani. Study 2-4hrs per day for JEE. Study well for college and whatever part is in JEE do that well so that it is complete. The extra JEE prep will complete the things that you won't cover otherwise. In holidays try to study 10-14 hrs per day for JEE and before the JEE, take 1-2 months off and study solely for JEE. This way you will do okay in ur first year college and I feel there is a chance that you may make it to even top 1000 as all you need is some brushing up, improvements here and there and confidence.

You can do it!

thanks akshaytalwar2.... but now im going to make the decision of taking iiith if i get it and forgetting abt iit..... is that ok??????