I am R2 waitlister, and I just got an admit email last night.

Sure! I got an email on 9/5 saying I was waitlisted, replied back 9/9 to accept a place on the waitlist, 9/25 received email saying I've been offered a place. I didn't email or call them, except to "accept" my place on the waitlist. I started drafting a letter, but never sent it. Hope this helps, feel free to PM me if you have more questions.

Congrats bud!
Glad to hear that the waitlist is progressing

congrats shoesncars and coulibaly14!
would you mind sharing your profile?

Congrats!

Can someone post the total number of acceptances? Also, does anyone know the total number of seats in the Jan cycle?

Scholarship question for the North Americans out there.

I am trying to apply for the need-based pool of scholarships with the INSEAD SchlMgmt tool and when I click on 'apply', North America is the only region without access to the need-based scholarships. Did everyone else experience this? and if so, do you have any idea why? Are North Americans really not eligible for these scholarships? I don't consider myself particularly 'needy' however that's exactly why there is an application process with supporting documents. Lets allow the scholarship committee to determine exactly who is needy enough before excluding certain regions. Unless there is some financial or governmental reason for excluding our little region, then I would understand.

Hi all... I haven't had my interviews yet... one of my interviewers has not yet come back to me on a date or time at all... and another one hasn't confirmed a time....though he has suggested a date.... I wanted to finish them off as soon as possible, but clearly it's not going to happen. I have informed my adm-coordinator about it though.
Just wanted to check with the rest of you- has anyone uploaded a third recommendation? If yes, then does it have to be in a certain format? INSEAD hasn't mentioned a lot about it in its website....and since i have got the time on my hands...i was just thinking if it would be a good idea.... any pointers?
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Total: 497
American: 49

Indians - 70
(several have dual nationality)

Helllo all,
I just completed both of my interviews. I traveled to another city in India for them. One was confirmed beforehand. The second one postponed many times, mostly without notice, but finally managed to give me some time because I was in the city for a short time and only for the interviews and did not have much of a choice.
Both the interviews were at coffee shops.
The first interview was very thorough. I was asked a lot of questions like, why MBA, why INSEAD, what are my strengths and weaknesses, what do I think about the economy and the way it's headed, how would I contribute to INSEAD, if in a group what role would I play. I have not applied to any other B-School and the person was surprised to hear that and I replied that if I dont get through I will focus on other applications and I mentioned a few other schools. The interview lasted for about 1.5 hrs and it was very friendly and conversational and I got a good feedback as well.
The second interview - well I am not sure how it went. It wasn't that long so I felt as if I could have said so much more ... The style was again very friend;y and conversational, but this time there were very less questions. He got two calls in between and he took both of them. Then he constantly urged me to apply to other schools, i don't know if he was trying to throw me off, but I replied that if this doesn't work out then I will surely explore other schools.
He did not ask me or probe into the why MBA/why INSEAD question too much either - just kind of touched the topic and moved on. He inquired about any challenges that I faced during my career and spoke about my international exposure and that was about it. He did wish me luck but did not give any feedback or any sort of clue as to how he thought it went and I did not dare to press him for one.
I have sent a thank you note to both of them.

Now all I can do is wait my fingers/toes/everything else crossed!
Good luck to all others who are waiting for decisions or interviews....
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