What, apart from a high CAT percentile, is needed for an admission into FMS, MDI Gurgaon, and XLRI?

FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, and XLRI are among the only few top colleges and B-schools in the country which give more emphasis on the entrance tests rather than the GD/PI process mostly followed by most other B-schools. It should be noted here that FMS Delhi and MDI Gurgaon accept CAT scores while XLRI accepts XAT scores only.

FMS Delhi –

• This institute gives a whopping 70% weightage to CAT score in their final selection criteria.
• If a general category student can score more than 99.85 percentile then if the GD/PI goes bad, you will sail through quite easily.
• If your score is somewhere close to 99.65, then you need a good PI to convert. Below that, it becomes extremely difficult.

MDI Gurgaon

• If you have more than 99 percentile with 10th, 12th, and graduation more than 90%, 90%, and 80% respectively, then it should be easy for you to convert. These marks have a weightage of 70% in the final selection unless you screw up your GD/PI pretty badly.
• However, this college has also started looking for better profiles from this year onwards as this helps in better and easy placements.

XLRI

• The median score of the batch remains close to 99.1 percentile in XAT. However, it gives lots of power to the interviewers.
• It is not uncommon to find students scoring more than 99.9 percentile and still getting rejected by XLRI.

So, score as high as possible in CAT/XAT and give decent to good interviews, and get selected for these top institutes.