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Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016

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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   25 Jul 2014, 20:42
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Hi all,

First of all thanks to people who are actively giving feedback to newbies here from their prior experience!

I gave my GMAT about a week back and got 700(Q48 V38).
U.Grad score 7.3/10 from BITS Pilani (B.E. Civil Engg.)
Decent school scores (88.8 12th 87.4 10th)

Work ex : 36 months at present

Wells Fargo(2 years): Mainly was a in-house offshore centre of the US Bank but i was mainly involved in IT work. Handelled a major innovation project involved in stream-lining a process involving multiple teams to bring down the work-around time significantly. Mentored newly joined associates.
ZS Associates( past 1 year...currently working here) : Sales and Marketing consulting...Joined as a Business Analyst. Handelling sales and marketing analytics work for a multi billion dollar Pharma client helping them with sales decisions for their brand interacting with their Brand Directors. Involved in their budget finalisation, sales for design and sales monitoring etc.

Extra curriculars:-
1. Pursue share market trading as a hobby and actively manage my own portfolio. Actively keep updated with the latest market news.
2. Founded and headed the Gaming club in the college. Organised a inter college fest in our college tech fest Apogee involving about 200 participants arranging both sponsors and logistics for the same.

Let me know how i fare for an application to ISB this time?

TIA.
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   30 Jul 2014, 04:14
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In the careers essay (#2), I am slightly torn between writing about the same goal that I wrote about last year (which was management consulting), and another role that I am considering this year (actually had been considering this all along as well :lol: ), which is staying in the same industry and aiming for leadership roles. I am actually keen on both and open to both options. But since the word limit is 300, I do not think that I will be able to explain this in detail.



Did you get feedback from ISB? There is a possibility that you were not convincing enough with your career goals last year- in the written application or during the interview. Starting with that info would be a better way to handle it this year.
ISB has been increasing it leadership development program recruitments, and is also strong for consulting. So in terms of the school fulfilling your career goals- both are possibilities. You need to get into the depth of this and understand for:
1. management consulting- are you fit for the role considering your personal and professional attributes (and past experience)
2. Leadership development- the companies that you are interested in, do they recruit at ISB?
Just a few interactive sessions with ISB students/ alumni/ adcom should clear your views.

Hope that helps.
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   04 Aug 2014, 07:13
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Hi Guys.,

Just another reminder for the chat with the ISB Adcom ... It is at 8:00 A.M Pacific Daylight Time (8.30 PM Indian Standard Time) today ............ We are having Mr.Rupesh Bisht - Associate Director with Admissions and Financial Aid Department at ISB and also an alumnus from the class of 2009 - as the guest.

The instructions to login are quite simple... Follow this link https://gmatclub.com/gchat

Login with your Username.............. And voila...
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2014, 11:23
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Hello Guys,

Thank you for attending recent chat session. For those who could attend the event, the chat transcript has been posted here. calling-all-isb-applicants-2015-intake-class-of-170219.html#p1356136

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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   12 Aug 2014, 19:33
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A good thing to incorporate in the essays.
Try to plug these in about how you can give back to ISB.

ISB Stuents Clubs
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2014, 18:35
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Ankur, did you reply to my post or to Devashish's ?

If to mine, which '"good point" you are referring to ?

I didn't get your reply completely hence I am asking.

Regards,
Vaibhav


Neither, I think :-D

I think he is referring to using the clubs at ISB as a way of giving back to the ISB community.
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2014, 06:27
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ankurgupta03 wrote:
I mentioned the clubs to incorporate in the essays.
Profile evaluation is a big task and i do not think I am qualified enough to do one :D
BTW have my TOEFL tomorrow :)


All the best for your TOEFL
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   15 Aug 2014, 09:18
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ankurgupta03 wrote:
I mentioned the clubs to incorporate in the essays.
Profile evaluation is a big task and i do not think I am qualified enough to do one :D
BTW have my TOEFL tomorrow :)


All the best for TOEFL!! :thumbup:
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2014, 10:34
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llewellyn75 wrote:
So which cycle is better for ISB... R1 or R2?

So don't bother ... Apply when you are fully ready!

Llewellyn Desouza

Principal Consultant Hash

in.linkedin.com/pub/llewellyn-desouza/1/6a1/a52/


This should be the main takeaway for the majority of the applicants. I personally feel that CAs, Docs, PSU applicants (generally anyone who can add any form of diversity to the classroom) find it easier in either round :lol:


No... A candidate with a PSU background hardly has any chance in R1 and a CA or Doctor will find it very difficult to get in in R2... Trust me on this one...
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2014, 11:45
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Would need to know a lot more about your Profile to be able to make a judgement on which round would be good for you...

Re-applicant. B.E. (Mech) - avg. Indian Univ + M.S. (Aero Engg.) - quite good US Univ :lol: . 5+ years sales and marketing for engineering equipment. Two organisations (first organisation: Indian and second & present organisation: MNC).

Do you need more? I can PM you.


R1 for sure...
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   18 Aug 2014, 03:43
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How did it go? Wonder which school are you taking TOEFL for? :wink:


Went fine .. rest the result will tell :P
Planning to apply to some US and UK schools
It's global this time around :-D
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   30 Aug 2014, 20:53
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An important announcement!


Hi All,

We have collaborated with the ISB admissions team and will be having a Chat session with Mr. Rupesh Bisht.
Here is a snapshot of his profile at ISB.

"Rupesh Bisht heads PGP International marketing and the Young Leaders Programme at ISB. He is Associate Director with Admissions and Financial Aid Department at ISB and also an alumnus from the class of 2009."

Timings for the session: 8.30 PM IST (8:00 AM PST) on 1st of September 2014.

All the people who could not join the session last time or had some unanswered questions, here is your chance. Do join and get all the queries clarified.
There cannot be a better time for the session. Most of you would have completed the initial draft of the essays and would have some questions regarding what all to add and remove.

Get them clarified :)

All the best! and happy essays writing :)
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   31 Aug 2014, 23:52
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Guys,

with 15 days for ISB's R1 deadline, the countdown has begun today.

Surprisingly, I see very little traction on this thread. Let's build momentum and gear up for the big day.

Keep your questions coming in all of you, and benefit from the collective advice of your peers (and consultants, ofcourse :wink: !!)

All the best!
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   02 Sep 2014, 04:48
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Hi,
I am a woman re-applicant working on my essays currently. I would like to know if I can highlight women issues in business. I want to know if it would sound feminist? I don't want to sound feminist, but I also find the inequality so apparent.


Bullzeye, does your answer hit the bull's eye? What question asked by ISB does this directly answer? If your answer sounds irrelevant to the question, do not attempt it, no matter how strongly you feel about women empowerment.

Once you are inside ISB, you will get many forums to talk about this and express your views. Similarly, when you are a manager of consequence a few years later, you can implement strategies within your capacity to address this matter.
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   10 Sep 2014, 11:08
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Hi Guys..

Just wanted some info on the interview location options in the application. The options available include Bangalore,Mumbai etc. but the Note below the field in the form asks us to select only Hyderabad, Delhi or Mohali. Any idea if these are the only interview locations and why other locations are available to be selected?


Sorry for the delay.

An excerpt from the brochure

"A panel of ISB representatives will conduct personal
interviews in Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad only.
Overseas applicants will have a telephone interview
or can opt to visit the campus for the interview in person."

Link to the brochure: https://www.isb.edu/sites/default/files/ ... 014-15.pdf
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   12 Sep 2014, 04:43
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Hi...where should we include the details about internship?? In experience section or education section??


ISB (in fact any top B-school) considers only full time experience after graduation. While you can talk about the experience in your essays it will not count towards your work experience.

Edit: If you're really very keen to include it, check with the helpline. +91 40 2318 7474
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   16 Sep 2014, 20:32
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ankurgupta03 wrote:
And the wait starts ...

Finally Submitted!
What a relief.


All the Best Ankur!
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   17 Sep 2014, 02:16
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ankurgupta03 wrote:
Many of you must be thinking

What to do now? I have submitted the application for ISB

Here is the answer:

1. Do not stop, continue writing your essays for other B-Schools. ISB may be your first preference, but you should always have back up. Do not be complacent and do not stop.
2. Start preparing for the interviwes. Practice never hurts. Sit down, reflect on your profile, introspect as a person. and think about why you ant to go to ISB. I
will write a detailed post later about ho to get started for the interviews.
3. Please come ahead and participate in the discussion :)

Regards,
Ankur



Looking forward to your interview post.

Few things I did right and wrong during my previous interview prep:

Right
1. Thoroughly reviewed my app, came up with all sorts of questions relating to them.
2. Spoke to lots of current students regarding ISB, tried to gather as much information as I could
3. Updated myself with whatever happened during the past 1 year in my industry
4. Why MBA? Why ISB? : two question I wrote answers to, reviewed, took feedback from all places
5 Relaxed

Wrong:
1. Extra-curricular improvements in my profile, didn't have much to talk here
2. Didn't thank the interviewers after my interview
3. Extempore preps: Could have done better?
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   17 Sep 2014, 07:46
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Wow. We didn't have this much activity prior to submission of applications. Now everyone is worried about getting interview calls.

We men are strange creatures, we worry only about things over which we have little or no control, yet pay lesser attention to those things over which we do have more control. Just a thought. :roll:
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Re: Calling all ISB Applicants - (2015 Intake) Class of 2016 [#permalink] New post   17 Sep 2014, 17:59
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ankurgupta03 wrote:
Here is the link:
https://pgpapp.isb.edu/user/cycle-1.html

ISB has still not updated the dates.

Expect a call one week prior to your interview date.


Whats funny is that this link has the interview dates: https://pgpapp.isb.edu/user/KeyDates.html
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