Hi Sunil,

Apart from the reservation, there are many factors that will affect your shortlisting and selection. I can tell you from my experience.

The competition is getting tougher for SC category also now and as you still have 2 months left, I would suggest you work harder and push your percentile to 90+. This will help increase your chances for selection and shortlisting.

Because your past acads, work experience, graduation stream, gender etc have a weight for shortlisting criteria. 

To answer your question, at 85%ile and past academics you can expect WAT-PI call for CAP round and IIM Shillong at most. apart from IIM's you can get PI calls from NITIE, IIT Roorkee etc.

Your selection will then depend if you give a solid performance in GD-WAT-PI.

Don't be dependent on category, work hard and only get into top b-schools as an MBA from these institutions only will matter in the future.

Hope this helps,

Please revert for further queries.

All the best!

85%ile is a decent score to get into some of the top B Schools in India. Initial shortlisting majorly happens with a decent weightage for CAT score. Also, given that you have SC category, you should be able to make it to one among the top 10 B Schools in India with provided you give an excellent interview performance.

I believe you would get shortlists from IIM Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, Shillong, all the new IIMs and Baby IIMs, NITIE. You may have chances in MDI also. So try your best to perform well in GD, PI, WAT and crack the call you get.

All the best.

The following colleges you can apply:

IIM Calcutta

IIM Lucknow

IIM Kozhikode

IIM Shillong

IIM Indore

FMS, Delhi

New IIMs

Baby IIMs

NITIE

DFS,DU

DBE, DU

All the best!

Based on your profile you can get 

LIba 

Fore business school

welingkar mumbai

nirma ahmedabad

imt Ghaziabad 

these are some top ones at 85%