Based on your past academic records, you are likely to get into top IIMs only with a very high CAT score. Honestly, your academic performance is average and IIMs especially give a lot of weightage to past academics. However, you can target IIM Shillong and elite Non-IIM b-schools such as FMS and MDI.
The best part of these Non-IIM B-Schools is their less weightage given to past academics during shortlisting. They focus the most on your CAT score. So anyone with an average profile can dream of getting into these schools by preparing for CAT sincerely and acing the exam.
Institutes like XLRI and IIFT focus a lot more on the entrance exam scores (around 60%) than your past academics. The other major parameters they give relative weightage to are work experience, GD/PI, and WAT performance. So choosing a B School like FMS, MDI, IIFT, XLRI, or JBIMS is a lot better for someone with your profile.
How to improve your profile:
Past Academics are not the only determining factor during admission. In fact, many B Schools give the least weightage to it. So the question is how can someone with an average profile up their scale and improve their profile? The 3 common ways are
The CAT percentile required for some B schools you mentioned are
B School |
Percentile Required |
IIM Ahmedabad |
99.97+ |
IIM Calcutta |
99.99+ |
IIM Bangalore |
99.99+ |
IIM Lucknow |
99.8+ |
IIM Kozhikode |
99.9+ |
IIM Shillong |
96.80+ |
New IIMs |
94.00+ |
FMS |
99.40+ |