X -90% XII -56% and an English hons. Graduate with 59% expecting around 90%tile in CAT. Which college i should prefer based on my academics.

You have an average academic records which might hinder your selection process a little as after CAT exam every college in which you have applied including IIMs will prepare a merit list to students for next round of interview and WSAT which is based on your aggregate score which comprises of many factors such as CAT marks, 10th 12th and graduation percentage, work experience, engineer or non engineer, gender, extra curriculars with different weightages for different colleges. Among which academic records have an overall 10-25% weightage.



So this a little weak profile can be an issue in the later stage but still you will definitely get a call from Goa institute of Management and TAPMI. For TAPMI there percentile cut off is fixed as 85 percentile further processing is done on the basis of profile and then with second round of interview, GD and WSAT.



Other than this with 90 percentile in CAT exam you can also apply in the below mentioned colleges which are good enough and you have a good chance:



1. Fore school of Management Delhi

2. Great lakes institute of Management, Chennai

3. SIMSR, Mumbai

4. MISB Bocconi, Mumbai

5. NIBM, Pune

6. Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)

7. IMT Ghaziabad



All the best!!

If you score around 90 percentile you can expect calls from the following institutes for interviews. However you need to perform during the interviews and group activities to get the final selection as toy have a disadvantage regarding your academics.



1) TAPMI Manipal

2) KJ Somaiya Mumbai

3) GIM Goa

4) IMT Ghaziabad (above 90 percentile)

5) IMI New Delhi

6) UBS CHANDIGARH

7) FMS BHU

8) LBSIM Delhi



You can also expect calls from other similar institutes as well.