CAT 2013: Advice to 70-90 percentilers for Admission 2014

With the declaration of CAT 2013 results and score card in hand, the most difficult is to decide the B school to get into. IIMs suddenly declared their intention not to shortlist the general candidates below 97 percentile. Does it mean that apart from IIM A, B, C or L other IIMs are ranked in the same category or there are other B schools also which are ranked even higher than the IIMs. You will find number of B schools in MBAUniverse.com transparent ranking conducted under the expert supervision of Dr. Dholakia (Ex Director IIM Ahmedabad) which are ranked at much higher place than few IIMs. http://www.mbauniverse.com/BSchoolRanking2014/mba-rankings-comparative-business-school-rankings.php

Where to go
Great confusion casts its shadow now since the cut offs of various B schools alongwith IIMs have changed for admission 2014-16. MBAUniverse.com, for the benefit of MBA aspirants has brought out this special series of articles to enable them to come out of this dilemma in choosing the appropriate B school.

There are number of options available in this percentile range. The aspirants should now focus on PGDM from a very good B school.

Options for 85-90 percentilers: A very good range of choice exists TAPMI Manipal; FORE Delhi; Alliance Bangalore; Welingkar Mumbai; BIMTECH Greater Noida; KJ Somaiya-Mumbai; LBSIM Delhi

Options for 80-85: NIRMA Ahmedabad; LIBA Chennai; IFMR Chennai; DMS NIT Trichy; KIT Bhubaneswar

Options for 75-80: XIME Bangalore; IMT Nagpur; UPES Delhi, Asia Pacific Delhi; JIMS Delhi; Siva Sivani Hyderabad; VIT Chennai; BIMTECH Bhubaneswar; EDI Ahmedabad

Options for 70-75- ISB&M Pune; NIT Karnataka; University of Petroleum Dehradun; Amrita Coimbatore; Gitam Vizag

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How to proceed
Above are few of the other many options. However, before proceeding further check their respective sites for more information. You may be having some preferred location or a list of institutes in order of preference. Find out whether you can still apply to your preferred B school. Then acquaint yourself with their respective fee structure, programmes offered, number of seats, faculty and placements.

Know the admission criteria
On the top of it admission criteria has to be understood. A few might like to conduct their own additional examination like IRMA (to be held in February 2014). Some of them may conduct GD/PI/WAT, only PI/WAT, group interview, case lets or something else. Since you would like to get into the best one, be prepared to be grilled a little.

How to prepare
Keep the required documents ready for the second admission round. You should begin your preparation for GD PI WAT immediately as you will need sufficient time, proper guidance, will need to follow certain dos and donts to prepare for this round.

What if I opt for CAT 2014?
If you are a working executive with less than 1-2 years of experience or are a fresher, you may go for this option to improve your score. This option should be exercised only when you are confident enough that you will improve tremendously and couldnt do well due to certain dire exigencies.

Forget the race to IIMs
The most important piece of advice is not to run after the IIMs and choose something better. This is the era of global competition and the way Air India is facing a tough competition in the quality from close competitors, IIMs are no exception. Private and global institutes and universities with world class infrastructure, faculty, global placements are on the rise and the aspirants should focus on such good B schools instead of being in the race of getting into not so highly ranked IIMs.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more tips and advice on Admission 2014 and on preparation strategy for GD PI WAT 2014.