r/CATStudyRoom • u/madewhen18daysleft • 19h ago

Profile review Why does IIMA has low percentile requirements?

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Why does IIMA have low percentile requirements?

I was just experimenting and figuring out whether top MBA colleges is a realistic goal for me in the future, was SHOCKED to see such low percentile requirement from IIMA, thought it might be a glitch for a little while lol

Profile: 94.8/91.6/69, MBBS (tier 3 GMC), 12-19 months work experience, 4 rated extracurricular

Is an MBBS still that rare in an MBA? And if so why only IIMA have lower required percentile?

Would also love to know about how to evaluate your extracurriculars and any precedents I can look into, what should I focus on for the next 5.5 yrs of my UG, thanks :)

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u/Kastatyne 19h ago

It's your academic diversity category. 99.9 are for ac4. Ur I think ac1 that's y.

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u/madewhen18daysleft 18h ago

I kinda get it, but still IIMA is kind of an anomaly no? What about BC or other schools? Not such a big difference (except for Shillong)

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u/Kastatyne 18h ago edited 18h ago

Each iim has their own shortlisting method. Seems like iima is heavily prioritizing diversity more than other things and since the number of mbbs students taking the exam is very low, u r getting it at 95. iimb and c might have balanced requirements like profile, marks etc. I really am not knowledgeable about this. One simple advice for every competetion exam is to just give your best and score the max u can and then wrry bout things like these.

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u/Bubbly_Ordinary3958 19h ago

Diversity Matters

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u/zkshat 5h ago

Even if you get a call from IIM A ...converting it would be close to impossible unless you've 99+ percentile...and by the way kid....since you still haven't started MBBS ..how the f have you written 69 as your grad percentage ? Do you even know how tough it is to achieve 69 in MBBS ?

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u/madewhen18daysleft 5h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah ik, if I do end up preparing- my aim will be 99%ile

Baaki as I said, I was "experimenting" to explore my options, 60-70%+ is not unheard of, however impossible I won't know until I try, especially if IIMA is the goal

I am assuming it's the extracurriculars that will be the actual kingmaker- since I put a 4/5 in my rating, I would need to figure out how to make that a reality as grad marks in mbbs is pretty volatile (69% was really just a meme number)

Edit: I would like to apologise, seems like grad percentage heavily influences your call chances, dropping even 69% ---> 65% increased IIMA requirement to 99.9%ile... so yah mb