Without doubt, your first choice should be IIM L WMP program. This program is an excellent choice if your live nearby Delhi or NCR area. Otherwise regular commute and applying for frequent leaves from your company can be big issue. After WMP, you are also eligible to apply for doctoral programs, as far as my knowledge goes, this means the course has weight and value in the market. ePGPx program is a blended one and gets completed in a year, which is good, but it is very new to the market. Also the brand value of IIML is much higher than IIMR. ePGPx does not have any accreditation (which many such programs don’t have), but there are some good programs which are accredited like EPGP from IIMK which is a blended program and is a well recognised program by the industry as well as academia. Accreditation are a benchmark for the quality, do also look out for this fact.

First of all congratulations to your son for such a fantastic score!!

Your son's academic records are average which could create a little problem as After CAT exam every college in which you have applied prepares a merit list to call students for next round of interview based on your aggregate score which comprises of many parameters such as CAT marks, 10th, 12th and graduation percentage, work experience, engineer or non-engineer whose weightage varies for all different colleges.

In this academic marks, weightage is around 10-25% this could bring your son's aggregate score down and hamper the merit rank. But this will mostly be a problem for getting calls from old IIMs like IIM L, K, I and S.

Your son will definitely get calls from most of the new IIMs and ultra new IIMs including IIM Rohtak. So he should focus on preparing the second round of WSAT and interview because that is very crucial for converting your call.

All the best for your son!!

If you have received the mail that your son has been shortlisted for GD & PI then you don't need to apply again for anything. The only thing you need to do is follow the steps mentioned in the mail. If there is a questionnaire that you need to fill then fill it up. Questionaire might be in form of link or in a word document. Just make sure you fill it to submit it and take print out. Also, make a file of all the original documents along with their photocopy.

The whole process what you need to do, where and when will this second round of interview and GD will be happening for your son will be mentioned in a mail which you must have already received or will be receiving on the official mail id which you filled in your CAT form.

And one of the most important things is to ask your son to start preparing very hard for the second round because I don't know your son's overall percentile and rest of the profile so I don't know how much is the probability of him converting the call. There is no surety of conversion until and unless you perform very well in the second round because after this final merit list will be made to give admissions to the students which are based on a new aggregate score consisting of the interview and WSAT score as the highest weightage along with CAT marks.

So ask him to prepare hard and wish him all the best!!

Don't judge yourself before you appear in any of WAT & PI. You need to know one thing that in every IIM a new merit list is made after the second round of WAT & PI which includes marks of WAT & PI. And you should be glad to know that generally in most of the IIMs interview & WAT marks along with CAT marks have highest weightage. Even there are IIMs like IIM Kozhikode which gives 0% weightage to academic records in the final merit list and 60% to WAT & PI together.

Dear Pooja

To be very honest and frank with you i would say that you will not get anything IIMs with this score.

My advice to you would be to prepare again and apply next year for MBA entrances. Also focus on NMAT,CMAT, XAT, IIFT,SNAP  and other MBA extrnace examinations than CAT.

ALl the best

IIM Rohtak any day. Vgsom is a good option but not comparable to IIM brand.