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Some people do score 99+ percentile in CAT and still don't get into IIMs. What options do they have apart from old IIMs?


Akanksha 16th Aug, 2017
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Sayyed Muhammed 26th Sep, 2017
Sayyed -IIM Raipur
Consider this stastics, around 200000 people write CAT and 1percentage of it - 2000 scores 99 percentile. Total seats in all IIMs is a bit more than 4000. Around half of this will be reserved seats. And many of the 99 percentilers could not secure admission in IIMs especially in old one. There are good institutes other than IIMs like XLRI, FMS, SP Jain, JBIMS, IITs,MDI,  NMIMS and Symbiosis. Many of these are older than most of IIMs and have good alumni network, infrastructure and other facilities.
Asutosh Mahapatra 25th Sep, 2017
Apart from old IIM ,you can always go for new promising new iims like IIM Rohtak, Ranchi and Trichy if you are brand conscious. If the IIM brand does not matter to you,then you can go for SP Jain, MDI Gurgaon, JBIMS(Excellent RoI),FMS ( Excellent RoI) and NITIE,Mumbai (if you are willing to make a career in supply chain and operations) Good luck.
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Himanshu Jain 25th Sep, 2017
Have a look at SP Jain, XLRI, SIBM, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, FMS etc. all stand good.
Amod Tripathi 25th Sep, 2017
For new IIMs CAT cutoff is around 96% percentile and you will get a call if you have cleared sectional cutoffs.

Almost all colleges have some sectional cutoffs and clearing those gives you a chance to appear for the interviews.

Following are some good colleges through CAT from which you can expect a call at around 99 percentile:


Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)
New Delhi
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)
Mumbai
Management Development Institute (MDI)
Gurgaon
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)
Mumbai
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay
Department of Management Studies (DMS), IIT
DELHI
Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT
Kharagpur
Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB)
Bhubaneswar
Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT
Madras
Indian Institute of Management (IMT-G)
Ghaziabad
Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (DIME), IIT Kanpur
IMI New Delhi

There are other excellent B Schools which consider XAT, SNAP, MICAT, IIFT and other scores for admission.

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