It would be a good option to wait and see how CAT goes on coming Sunday. As most of the inst have last date on 31st Nov you can apply to them after appearing CAT. But to be in safe side you should apply to 2/3 institutes in good 30 institute and 1-2 in next 15 (find the details @ [url]http://cat4mba.com/mbainindia/?page_id=2[/url] ). Please let us know your exact profile (like graduation subjects, institute , scores in diff sections so that we can suggest few specific institutes