I would score 400 marks in NEET 2021 and I belong to reserved category (SC). I am the permanent resident of Dindigul which is located in Tamilnadu. Please inform me the possibilities for getting MBBS admission in Karnataka State and in which category & college, I can get the admission. Urgent reply

Hello Jeyakumar. I hope you are doing good. You mentioned your expected marks to be 400 out of 720 in NEET UG 2021and you belong to SC category. You also mentioned your home state is Tamil Nadu yet you are looking forward for getting admission at Medical Institutes of Karnataka. Well, if you secure 400, then your overall percentile may lie somewhere around 86.18 - 86.68 while your AIR may lie within the range of 212272 - 252422 considering the difficulty of the paper to be moderate.

Based on this marks and rank, it is less likely for you to get chance at any Public/Government medical institutes and top-rated private institutes via All India Counselling. However, if you are lucky enough, there is slight possibility for you to get admission to MBBS/BDS at very few private medical institutes in Karnataka although the amount of fees is much higher than other top-rated private colleges, namely:

1. RajaRajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore (MBBS, 2019 Cutoff: 263523)
2. Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal (BDS, 2019 Cutoff: 253858)
3. KLE Vishwanath Katti Institute of Dental Sciences, Belgaum (BDS, 2019 Cutoff - 466829)
4. J.S.S. Dental College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysore (BDS, 2019 Cutoff - 419808)
5. A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences (BDS,2019 Cutoff: 480640)
6. Yenepoya Dental College And Hospital, Mangalore (BDS, 2019 Cutoff: 638320)
7. Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore (BDS, 2019 Cutoff: 509844)

As your domicile is not Karnataka, you won't be able to participate in Karnataka State Counselling sessions under 85% State Quota. However, you can participate in Tamil Nadu State Counselling sessions under 85% State Quota.

To increase your chances at various MBBS medical colleges of Tamil Nadu, it is advisable to fetch a marks more than 410 (420+ is recommended).

All I can say is, if your expected marks becomes your actual mark,  your performance is not up to the par to get admission to any top-rated Government or Private Medical Colleges.

To know more about NEET UG Cutoff trends in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, respectively, based on previous years, check out this article:

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cutoff-karnataka

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cutoff-tamil-nadu

To know more about NEET UG overall Cutoff trends, follow this article:

https://medicine.careers360.com/articles/neet-cut-off

To know your admission chances in medical/dental colleges with NEET Score, to get a personalized report with Top MBBS & B.D.S Colleges and to check course & counselling wise cut-offs of NEET for various state quotas, caste groups etc., I encourage you to use NEET UG 2021 College Predictor:

https://medicine.careers360.com/neet-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=neet_rp

I hope you find this information helpful. I wish you all the best for your future.

Thank you and good luck.