Every B-school, including IIMs & Non-IIMs, has its own unique criteria when it comes to calling its prospective candidates. Over the years, these criteria have evolved, and Career Launcher has crunched the data to develop a tool – MBA Profilizer 2025, that is designed to predict the percentile required to receive calls from IIMs and other top B-schools, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, for the calls that you can potentially receive.
CAT aspirants are often filled with numerous questions regarding their admissions to their dream B-schools. Some of the questions that will be asked through our IIM Call Predictor are as follows:
Career Launcher’s IIM Profilizer Tool provides crucial insights into your profile and the B-schools to which you could potentially secure admission, along with the required CAT percentile for that particular B-school.
Most of the CAT aspirants have this myth that the CAT percentile is the only measure to secure a spot at their dream B-schools, whereby the reality is totally opposite. The CAT score contains only 20-40% weightage in the entire selection process. Thus, this tool is devised to answer this burning question:
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MBA Profiler by Career Launcher is an advanced version of the IIM Call Predictor, which includes eligibility and other important information about top IIMs and non-IIMs. It shows you which IIMs and other B-schools you can get a call from based on profile strength, as well as gives you an idea about the kind of percentile you would need to obtain in order to secure the call.
Here is the snapshot of the sample report that the candidate will receive after filling out their information in our IIM Profilizer.
Encompasses all factors such as academic diversity, gender diversity and different categories
Analysis of the top 13 IIMs and their shortlisting criteria based on the latest data through our CAT college predictor
Modeling of relative State Board difficulty levels to simulate normalization of X/XII marks
Validated against thousands of 2023 IIM call getters to simulate the results for CAT
The IIM Profilizer measures various factors that different institutes implement to calculate the potential B-school calls you can receive. Each college has its own criteria for extending calls to candidates, and these criteria encompass a range of factors that have also been included in the MBA Profilizer. Some of the criteria incorporated in our IIM call predictor in order to predict the right B-school for you are as follows:
The CAT college predictor has been tuned according to the criteria of each college and the weightage assigned to each measure to ensure that you get a more accurate picture of your chances of getting a B-school interview.
Career Launcher’s MBA Profilizer has been conceptualized for CAT aspirants by former CAT takers. The idea behind this tool is to prepare the aspiring candidates with a clear understanding of what lies ahead, so that they have no false expectations or hopes before starting their preparation for CAT and other MBA exams.
Based on the admission criteria implemented by the top B-schools over the years and the data stored with us from our past students, our IIM Profilizer can estimate the likelihood of a candidate getting a call from the particular B-school of their choice through our B-school call predictor. This includes the process of normalizing candidates’ Class 10, 12, and graduation scores, academic diversity, category, etc.
Our MBA Profilizer simplifies this process by using their details and providing you with a report to show them how much they need to score in order to stand a good chance of receiving a call. It compares candidates’ profile parameters, such as category, academics, gender, etc., with the eligibility criteria of the IIMs. It then gives the list of IIMs from which one can get an interview call and the percentile required.
IIM Ahmedabad
IIM Bangalore
IIM Calcutta
IIM Lucknow
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The MBA Profilizer is built using historical data of past students who have received verified calls from the IIMs / top B-schools. The latest admission policy documents of each IIM are consulted to understand the formula used by the IIMs for creating the interview shortlists. AI based tools are used to simulate the score calculators of each b-school individually. Since CL has a depth of data of past students we are able to predict to a good degree of accuracy the impact of academic scores , work ex , gender diversity. Once you submit your profile to us, we are able to back calculate the percentile required. This percentile is uniquely calculated for each and every student, and no two students are likely to see the exact same percentile cut offs.
You must specify the precise academic scores secured in 10th/12th/Graduation and total Work experience in Months at the time of writing CAT. Also your category, academic stream and gender must be correctly provided
The selection criteria of each and every B-school is different and also sometimes very complicated. Even the most experienced faculty cannot keep track of the formulae and can only give broad recommendations to a student about the percentiles required to secure a call. The profilizer will likely perform better than a human input in most circumstances. We have backtested the recommendations of the profilizer on a database of over 5000+ calls of IIM intake of 2025 and the accuracy of 95% was observed in True Positives samples ( actual call getter who got a percentile higher than our predicted cut off)
There are several limitations or approximations which are to be noted
a) In a few b-schools academic diversity points are granted for Masters or Professional Degrees - for the sake of simplicity we have ignored these inputs as it affect few students in just a couple of b-schools
b) The z-scores used in the calculation of 10/12 board scores are often based on the relative scores of total applicants. Several IIMs normalize the scores across boards and across years. We do not have enough reliable data to do the same and we have treated all boards the same across multiple years.
c) The work ex data in our system is self declared by students - it is hard to validate these data in the same way an IIM can, and hence will have a tendency to have more errors than other academic data.
d) Non -IIMS do not reveal their exact formula of creating the interview short list. These have been estimated using statistical means on aggregate data.
The profilizer simulates the probability of getting an interview call only. Final admission criteria are significantly different, where the interview and WAT scores come into play. Additionally certain other criteria can be considered which were not considered at the time of shortlisting for interview.
MBA Profilizer takes data privacy seriously and employs security measures to protect your information. Your data will not be shared with third parties without your consent.
The degree of complexity depends on the number of parameters considered by different institutions during the admission process. If more parameters are considered, the degree of complexity of the institution will be high and vice versa.
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