What are the reasons that someone could be rejected by IIM Ahmedabad after AW-PI after getting 99.7 percentile score in the CAT exam?

If you think just getting a good CAT score is enough to get into IIM, you are wrong. Let’s take an example of a human being, everyone is supposed to have two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two legs, it isn’t a big deal but if you don’t have either one of them, you have a big problem.

The same goes for the CAT scores of the candidates, over 500 students score 99.70+ almost every year, but not all of them can get into IIM. Here, several factors like the interview stage and reserved category seats play an important role in determining your chances to get in.

In the second round (interview), you will be checked for your performance throughout life, clarity of thoughts, your general awareness, ethics, personality, and ample other parameters. All these things have no relation with your CAT score, no matter how good you have scored you might fail in this second round which may lead to your rejection. By this, it is pretty clear that even a person having 100 percentile may get rejected at this stage.

Not to forget, the general category seats in IIM, Ahmedabad are around 200. The availability of seats is also another reason why the acceptance rate of IIM Ahmedabad is so steep.