cyberhawk wrote:
ChickenTikka wrote:
I haven't heard anything yet with regards to interviewers. I plan on doing it as soon as possible. I'll interview this afternoon if someone calls me. I'm very eager to have the whole process sewn up. I figure we have all got better than a 60 percent chance of acceptance at this point
How did you figure out this? Is it for everyone invited or for specific demographic group?
That's for everyone interviewing on average in R1 (not looking at any one candidate's or groups odds). It's a guess. I'm almost certain that our odds are better than 50 percent. They could be as high as 70. 60 is my best estimate.
This is based on data that I've observed on this forum over the past few cycles and also based on statements made by admissions people elsewhere on the internet. Right now, I'm pretty sure that we've got something better than a coin flip, which isn't bad. It's still an estimate though, so don't place too much importance on my statement.
Trying to estimate how we do on individual levels is tough. It depends on how they weight their criteria. The best group to be in, if there is one, would probably be women. I think if you are being interviewed and and female your odds are probably higher. Elsewhere on the internet, they have singled out women as the group that they need to recruit the most as they would like to push their m/f ratio closer to parity. This is a challenge that all b-schools face. Other than that, I don't think they are necessarily having much difficulty finding candidates from any one location. Sure some groups are overrepresented, such as Indians, but they don't seem to mind that. INSEAD seems very keen to evaluate us as individuals, not on the characteristics of our race, which is great. This was precisely the reason that I applied to INSEAD