Calling all INSEAD Applicants (Sept 2016 Intake) Class of July 2017!!

You've got great patience wonhok! I'm definitely not willing to be put into a later class as I'm heading towards the upper end of the age range.

I got in touch with my interviewers to let them know I was wait-listed and told one of them about my acceptance to LBS. He then remarked back to the adcom conveying my disappointment with their decision and my acceptance to LBS when they contacted him to let him know the outcome. Hopefully his comments to them will weigh in my favour! Hard to know though what the adcom sees as "missing" from your profile that prevents you being in the definite acceptance group.

Does anyone know what the latest numbers are on MBA Connect?

Aquarian2010- If something happens at work (promotion, change in position, award, etc.) let your AO know. If I recall correctly from the waitlist e-mail, they solicit updates if you have them. Send it to them, but don't spam them with it. That being said, it wouldn't have helped with me because I'm fairly certain what happened in my case was that there was someone who had almost exactly the same profile as me, in the same company, same nationality, stationed in the same geographic locale, in my peer group, but was placed in a position of greater responsibility due to fortunate circumstance on his part. Since I come from an extremely niche background and INSEAD manages diversity very well, I believe I did not make the cut for that reason.

xyeek- LBS is an outstanding school, congratulations. I started an application with them, but never submitted because I couldn't sit for the GMAT at the time. Suffice it to say if I had, and it ended up in an offer, it would have been an extremely hard decision to make.

MBA Connect is at 96 so far.

Sorry for the late post, was out of my email for the past 3 days. I got the call on Wednesday from my AO - HS. Starting in Fonty in August.

Hi everyone who has already been admitted, not to change the topic entirely, but where can we see the number of admitted people on MBA Connect? I am also admitted into the July 2017 class and have explore the Connect platform a bit, but didn't find such information there... Thanks!

"Community" on the top of the page, there "Directory" and then filter by class.

P.S. There are 103 students so far.

Thanks! Just found it.

wonhok, good job on getting a plan B in place. Most of us candidates (not a candidate yet; I'm applying for the class of Dec '17) chose INSEAD for it's unique 1 year international programme coupled with it's high ranking and ROI.

Like some older candidates, I am trying to put in place a plan B. I can't say I have one in place since most of the 1 year programs are not on par with INSEAD; some are lacking in solid alumni presence, in international presence, in reputation, or in solid career services and in consulting placement to name some. Plus I can't afford 2 years or else my wife will divorce me one year in lol kdn!

The possibilities are there for younger candidates. My advice to you: WL is not the end of the world. You definitely have the chance to solidify your resume and fill in the gaps. Your profile will be as competitive in a lot of the US and European programs (e.g. LBS).

May I ask the wait-listees what's your plan B?

Plan B (or should I say plan A now) is apply to LBS. Need to think of a good plan C too. Basically back to square 1.

I hope everyone applied in R1 should have received the decision by now. Here is summary of Round 1. Congrats to all INSEAD R1 Admits!!

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Admitted and Waitlisted Folks: There are separate threads for you for getting in touch with each other and discussing next strategy.

Calling all Admitted Students: INSEAD September 2016 Intake!!
Calling all Waitlisted Applicants: INSEAD September 2016 Intake!!

For me Plan A was either INSEAD or LBS and Plan B if I didn't get accepted to either was to apply to HEC Paris, IMD and possibly Oxbridge and CBS. Fortunately I don't need my plan B. To be honest when I thought of having to work on applications again I wanted to throw up lol.

On a separate note, I asked SH if I could get feedback on my profile and was told "I would like to reassure you that, with competition as fierce as it is for a seat at INSEAD, your application does not need to have a specific weakness to be on the waitlist. It is for this reason that we are not asking you for supplementary information to strengthen your application." It leaves me wondering if I should email them updates to my profile.

Thoughts?

I got the same response too with the subject INSEAD Waitlist Explained. But I was also told to update any "important" information that may be missing in the application and which adds value. Did you get that one? It's a bit contradicting...one part says we don't need updates, the other part welcomes missing important information. Hmmmm...

I got this answer too with the following words at the end "Having said that, you are welcome to add an update to your application, if you feel that there is some important information missing that would add value to your file."

It seems like you don't have to email them unless something huge happened to you (which is unlikely in my case)

Got done today with my interviews for INSEAD (R2 Sept Intake). One was extremely conversational (1.5hours - walked through several experiences for each of the companies I've worked for) and other one was brutal (30 mins, rapid questioning, lots of asking next set of questions between my answers, and generally probing hard on anything and everything). It's amazing just how emotionally draining the whole process can be.

Glad this is done and over with. Best of luck to each one of you in this 'testing' journey of B-School applications.

R1 applicant, admitted. American, living in the USA, age 31.

Both my Interviews lasted 1 hour. One was with a recent grad and one with a more senior alumni. Common themes between the 2 were walk me through your resume, why MBA, why Insead. Other questions:
- Tell me your biggest contribution in each different role
- Tell me about a time where you had an issue with a superior, how did you handle it
- What did you learn from managing a team? what do you still have to learn?
- Examples of critical feedback you have received? How did you take it?
- Why an MBA now, why not 3 or 4 years ago
- What would you do if you dont go back to school? Have you thought of what it means to you to let go of what you have already?
- What do you do for fun?

Both interviews were pleasant and conversational, and you can tell that both interviewers recommend the school and the experience they had.

I recommend that you know your story well, especially your why MBA, and be able to concisely walk anyone through your career thus far and what your accomplishments were. Get some people that have MBAs to role play with you. Prep well and show confidence in your interviews.

Good luck to everyone! Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Finally finished two interviews. Both were very friendly, focused on why MBA, why now, international exposure, teamwork and open up for questions. Both asked how many other school I have applied. Neither has commented whether they d recommend me or not. FInger crossed.

R2 Applicant. Completed my interviews a few days back. Flew from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka for the interviews.
The first one was quite encouraging. The interviewer skipped the conventional questions and directly asked 3 questions which he had in mind about my application.
1. To detail out my long term plan
2. How do I plan to overcome the weakness I had mentioned in my application (he also gave some advice)
3. A particular extra curricular activity in my application which wasn't clear to him
After that we talked about common interests and he also gave me lots of tips on how to navigate through INSEAD.

The second interview wasn't as well as I expected. The interviewer was from a different background and I couldn't convincingly answer a lot of his questions. Though he acknowledged that he didn't expect me to know it all, but it is essential to master them before I step into INSEAD. He told me that I was the youngest applicant he had interviewed and also dissected my short term goal and my MBA financing plan.

While the first interviewer told me to party like never before at INSEAD the second interviewer told me to strictly focus on my grades and networking. Seems conflicting??
Lastly, both of them gave me great travel tips which helped me out in my 4 day Sri Lanka tour following my interviews.
Best of luck to everyone!!

when do I expect to receive an interview if I apply in R3? does it have to be after r3 deadline?