Hi Riya!

76 Percentile is a decent score to have for SC category students. You have a good shot at getting calls from many top colleges. I have created a list with the cutoffs last year for SC category students in CAT. This information was availed from an RTI that was filed last year. As you can see below, these were the minimum scores candidates were admitted with in the last year.

•IIM Ahmedabad – 76.52

•IIM Amritsar – 55.42

•IIM Bangalore – 76.35

•IIM Indore – 65.56

•IIM Kozhikode – 68.46

•IIM Raipur - 65

•IIM Ranchi – 64.45

•IIM Trichy 67.06

•IIM Udaipur – 61.93

•IIM Vizag – 75

•IIM Bodhgaya – 75

•IIM Lucknow – 75

•IIM Sambhalpur - 60

•IIM Kashipur - 60

•IIM Jammu - 60

•IIM Sirmaur – 60

•IIM Rohtak – 60

You will be eligible for most of the IIMs.  But I would advice you to mainly look at the top ones which are IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore , IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM Trichy, IIM Rohtak, IIM Ranchi and IIM Raipur.

Apart from IIMs, you can also target other top Bschools in the country such as

•Faculty of Management Studies cutoff last year was 75 percentile

•NITIE Mumbai

•Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi

•Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay

•Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) IIT Kharagpur

•Institute of Management and Technology, GHAZIABAD

All the B-Schools that I have listed are applicable in your case. You may get a call from all of them. But please note that getting a call and converting a call are two different things. You need to prepare well for the Group Discussion (GD) – Personal Interview (PI) – Written Ability (WAT) – Extempore rounds or any other rounds that these top schools may have.

Hope I have helped you. Feel free to ask if you have any queries.

NITIE Mumbai offers Postgraduate residential programmes, namely PGDIE, PGDIM, PGDISEM, PGDMM and PGDPM. Out of the five mentioned programmes, CAT score is accepted for the PGDISEM (Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Safety and Environmental Management) and PGDIM (Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Management) programmes.

With this score you might have the chance to get a call from NITIE as SC Category. As per the selection procedure of PGDIM and PGDISEM with CAT cutoff scores, need to appear for a group discussion followed by personal interview for the final admissions.

Good Luck!