See if your percentile is 97 then you expectedly have a rank around 30690 - 34500. Now with this rank you have good chances to get the Average NIT's with top branches or Top NIT's with lower branches.

The best option for you is to use the JEE MAINS College predictor as it will provide you a much better prediction based on the previous trends statistically.

For the JEE MAINS COllege predictor visit:

Some of the institute you have good chances at:

10NIRF Rank'21

NIT Surathkal - National Institute of Technology Karnataka

20NIRF Rank'21

NIT Rourkela - National Institute of Technology

23NIRF Rank'21

NIT Warangal - National Institute of Technology

25NIRF Rank'21

NIT Calicut - National Institute of Technology

27NIRF Rank'21

IIEST Shibpur - Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology

For top engineering colleges through JEE MAINS, visit the link below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/top-engineering-colleges-in-India-accepting-jee-main-score

I hope this answer helps. All the very best for your future endeavors!

Greetings!

Best colleges which you can get at 97 percentile which is nearly equal to 28000 rank for general category are:-

1. NIT
2. IIIT
3. Delhi technological University
4. netaji Subhash University of technology
5. Indira Gandhi Delhi Technological University
6. IPU
7. Many GFTIs.

However, it also depends on the cutoff and branch . In NIT,you will get lower branches as per your percentile.

For getting more colleges according to your rank, use colleges predictor:-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope this will help you.