INSEAD JANUARY 2011 INTAKE

People who got digned. Did you all receive feedback?

Nope no feedback just the usual on application process confidentiality and so we can't disclose why we dinged you!

Got an invite at 6am PST. Profile - male/indian/private equity (7yrs total WE)/strong undergrad but low GMAT. Can someone please tell the significance or insignificance of being "pre-selected"? Thanks!

hey guys,

got an invite as well.. M 26 / India / 720 (49 Q 40 V)

Chartered Accountant - 4 years WE till dec 09 in risk advisory and financial due diligence

Coord - HS

Mine said "pre-selected" as well. Perhaps that means something special?

I think we'll know after the bulk of the invites come out tomorrow.

It doesnt mean anything beyond being invited to interview.

Shaselai - send me your email address and I will give you access to my insead jan 2011 intake spreadsheet, you can see profiles there of 20+ ppl that have been extended an interview invite. Your profile doesn't give much to go on - there are 4 areas you need to prove: academics (mainly from your gmat), international outlook (are you an expat? got lots of passports?), leadership (have you run teams? are you a networking guru?), and do you have something to bring to the table (how do you add diversity? this is the category that being a woman falls into, having a different career path, etc)

By the way shaselai, by no means are what I mentioned above the minimum. Your academics are probably good enough and the stuff I'm referring to are closer to the slam dunk. I've run international teams but I'm not an expat, I've travelled the world ... I speak two languages, have two passports, and I'm a bit more on the unique side, but what differentiates me from the harvard or stanford guy is that I don't have the pedigree employer (e.g. m/b/b; GS, etc) or the pedigree school (think top 10 school) nor have I saved the world, won an olympic gold medal, or served in a volunteer army after graduating from a pedigree school. Caliber of student-wise, Insead is probably an M7 level (below HSW of course, but the M7 are H/S/W/Columbia/Kellogg/Chicago/Sloan).

Hope that helps

Congrats to everyone that made it!

Profiles?
ramanathanblue
rishiphadke
sinhadee
honus100

Thanks!

Just tallied up the numbers. 42 invites between businessweek and gmatclub boards. Looks like the indian competition is tough, but I guess that's how it is every intake. Good luck!

Any hypothesis on whether the chances are better for R1? I interviewed for R2 last year and was placed on the waitlist till the very end - got a ding just 4 weeks before the course was to start. Realistically also, even if I was offered an admission on that date, there was no way I could have arranged for the finances, visa, etc. in under 4 weeks.

Also, how many Indians are usually selected on average in one batch? If there are any statistics around that, maybe we can assess our chances..

Based on the conversations I've had with the insead marketing ppl, anytime a group is over-represented, the earlier you apply the better. They will take only so many indian engineers or israeli lawyers. If you came up as waitlisted, then that's good evidence that you made their bar, but the quota for your specific profile of diversity was already in enough abundance for that promotion. Logically that makes sense - better to have one or two indian engineers than no indian engineers, but fifty could lower the overall diversity. As for indians in one batch, I don't know numbers, but for 11J (that's sept 2010 intake), the numbers as of the beginning of march were around 42. My suggestion would be to look at the sept thread and try to follow how many got in from R1 (the people that got admitted will have a view via MBAconnect) and how big the number got after R2, etc.

Good luck!

hi all,

Ive received a mail from my coordinator stating the details of my first interviewer, who is based in my city. The mail says that i should arrange a date for the interview and revert to my coord with the date mutually agreed. It also says that "We will let you know later if we need to organise a second interview". - I was surprised by this as I thought 2 alumni interviews were the norm. Is there anything further to be read into this?

Regards

I also have a low GMAT score. Though I am still thinking of retaking the GMAT. but at the moment I'm focusing myself on the essays.

I hope I can be as lucky as you are

yes..it means one of the two:
1. they think you are a really strong candidate and if the interview goes well=>you do not nee to go for a second interview

or

2. they simply can not find another alumni in the area where you live...

Hi praeto,

I wonder if point no 2 is the case because my interviewer is based in my city and is from an IT product sales background.

However i do know that there are insead alumni in bangalore, which is relatively close to where i stay, and had thought alumni working in finance profiles would get assigned to interview me.

Anyways, I have mailed my interviewer and hope to complete the process at the earliest.

All the best to everyone.

Hi all, I have received the details of my interviewer too. Does anyone know how the interview reports are sent to the AdCom for review? In other words, are they sent all at once or as and when ppl finish their interviews? I'm wondering whether it's important to schedule the interview early and how it affects your chances.